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The Netscape-Digg story is the gift that just keeps on giving. First there was the offer from Jason Calacanis, formerly of Weblogs Inc., to pay the top submitters on Digg, Newsvine and Reddit if they started submitting stories to the new Digg-style Netscape site. That led to a mild flame-war b
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2 years ago
On one hand it could encourage people to post/submit more to sites like Digg in the faint hope of catching the eye of Netscape to get a gig.
The real "publicity stunt" vs. "genuine concern" will show when Netscape starts getting it's own top submitters. Will Jason pay them too? And at then what's the threshold for who gets paid? Top 10? Top 20... how's 21 going to feel?
I think the mistake Jason makes in his whole rant is the assumption that these users want to be paid or expected to be paid. Sure some of them will take the money (an extra $1K for doing what you're already doing? sure!). I think the web has gotten so vast that in many cases just seeing your story, with your name as the submitter is enough for many people. Heck look at how everyone stumbles all over themselves trying to get their first "greenlight" at Fark...
2 years ago