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Posted by: josue-salazar 2 years, 2 months agoTWIT's Leo writes: "I have no problem with his offer to pay Digg's top posters....I do have a problem when he insinuates that anyone who doesn't pay is a capitalist pig exploiting his workers."
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mateo600
July 26, 2006, 3:54 a.m.Netscape= A once great company who recently failed by throwing millions of dollars marketing a dial-up ISP (which is viewed mostly by people like my grandma who can't change their homepage) who is desperately trying another scheme....... maybe try a pyramid scheme??
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mateo600
July 26, 2006, 3:54 a.m.Digg= grassroots site with a large but very loyal following
Netscape= A once great company who recently failed by throwing millions of dollars marketing a dial-up ISP (which is viewed mostly by people like my grandma who can't change their homepage) who is desperately trying another scheme....... maybe try a pyramid scheme??
I wonder if most of the Netscape users that are signed up (besides all of the planted corporate lackeys of course) are people like me who are Digg users, but came to see the trainwreck?
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ck
July 26, 2006, 10:24 a.m.I was disappointed by this post, as it positions the discussion on the personal "vs." level. I usually like what Leo has to say and had hoped that he would look at the issue of paying participants who are leaders in the space, rather than approach the topic from the perspective of the personalities involved in the discussion.
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NOTShane_Coffey2
July 26, 2006, 11:28 a.m.mateo600: I thought you were only signing up to post one comment. Well that makes 12 comments I have counted.
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1-2-Oscar
July 26, 2006, 2:09 p.m.No "Netscape Anchor" has voted on this story, and it has not been "pinned" to the top of the home page. I'm appalled.
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josue-salazar
July 26, 2006, 3:15 p.m.Oscar, this isn't that interesting. It's just Leo stating his opinion, I for one wouldn't want to see this passing off as real news.
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alexrudloff
July 26, 2006, 5:25 p.m.Maybe we do need an "OK, this is lame" feature.
Seriously.. Digg users really do seem to be obsessing over all this. It's like watching a really bad, geeky soap opera that appeals to less than 1% of the 1% on the internet.
Funny, because all their top users don't seem to mind ;)
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mateo600
July 26, 2006, 5:32 p.m.There are a lot of people out there who think a lot about what Leo has to say. Just because he doesn't seem to be too exited about this crap site, don't think it's lame.
Also, you're right, digg users don't obsess about this on Digg. That got over with in a day or so. When we want to obsess briefly about it, we come here & spread love.
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mateo600
July 26, 2006, 6:15 p.m.shane_coffey2: You're right. I originally planned to make a single post but I'm having a hard time not posting on this site, not because its good though. It's just hard not to comment on the souless, poorly executed, facsimile of digg thats so desperate that its willing to pay for posters.
When this fails, I'm wondering what Netscape will try next, pyramid schemes?
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1-2-Oscar
July 26, 2006, 7 p.m.Josue Salazar, I will try to explain this gently, because you have identified yourself as an experienced blogger, and to me that means that you have very little experience dealing with real people in a real world.
1. My comment above was sarcastic. Look up the word "sarcasm" then read it again and see if you can see how I intended to hold the "Netscape Anchors" to a very public ridicule.
2. It should be obvious that a story need not be important for the "Netscape Anchors" to heavily promote it. For example, for most of a week four of them, Alexia, Ryan, Randall, and honcho-of-all-Anchors Karina attended, and reported (ad nauseum) how thrilled they were and how exciting the comics are. In other words, they acted as if their childish pursuit was more important than events in Lebanon, bills being discussed in Congress, or legitimate domestic and international news stories of all sorts. But I suppose that, to this group, comics really ARE more important than those things.
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Hairback357
July 26, 2006, 9:57 p.m.I am not sure Leo should have publicly commented on this at all. I just did a podcast about some fishy goings on where Leo is concerned and now this is just more wood for my fire.
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Scott-O-Rama
July 26, 2006, 10:05 p.m.Oh... good lord! Digg trolls, get a life!
If you don't like what Jason is doing, then stay over at Digg and support that site. Don't keep coming over here are boring us all with your same points posted ad nauseum.
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josue-salazar
July 27, 2006, 12:37 a.m.Oscar, sarcasm, unless clearly implied or specifically specified, is not evident without verbal or physical clues. Forgive my literal interpretation of your comment, but please, in the future, no "gentle" lectures are necessary.
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mateo600
July 27, 2006, 3:18 a.m.I got the sarcasm. I think lots of people did. It sounds like a "gentle" lecture was necessary.
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josue-salazar
July 27, 2006, 1:47 p.m.mateo600, why don't you just go back to Digg, it's not like we'll miss you here.
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mateo600
July 27, 2006, 5:02 p.m.Will you do me a favor?
I don't want to leave my account active. Please cancel it for me (since you work here) and I'll gladly never comment again.
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mateo600
July 27, 2006, 5:05 p.m.I know people will be saying godd riddance to me around here, and thats okay.
One more thing, I noticed early yesterday morning that you still have some rogue scripts installed from that hacker attack. I got some javascript popups that said "******" and "greetings to all you diggers ;)"
I'm not sure if you've found them all yet.
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josue-salazar
July 27, 2006, 7:48 p.m.mateo600, I just prefer it over Digg (nothing wrong with either of them, in fact more power to the people who now have a choice).
The thing is, if you're not adding value to the conversation why keep commenting? That's why I said you were better off in Digg, you could actually add some value to the conversations there, here you just bitch about the site.
About the pop ups, I saw them as well, and actually blogged about it (theubergeeks.net). I wish we'd get a response from Netscape about it actually.
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mateo600
July 27, 2006, 8:10 p.m.Im guessing you prefer it because you're paid to be here? I'd prefer it too.
By the way, nice kitten story that you submitted. ;)
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josue-salazar
July 27, 2006, 9:22 p.m.mateo600, does getting paid have anything to do with it? Oh and no, i'm not being paid.
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