DISQUS

Stu · 3 years ago

Score this one to Jason. Dude might've been creepy with his stalking, er, job offering during the Rocketbimbo fiasco, but Kevin's defensiveness over this makes for a sad display.

Where's his response to Jason's assertions that Kevin will sell out and will be rolling in the dough while the users who really provided Digg's value get nothing more than lame t-shirts?

He has none, because he knows it's true, but doesn't want to admit it to his silly cult followers who (so they claim) would never -- NEVER -- be seen making big business deals with The Man. How to distract the ignorant masses of Digg fanboys from the fact that he completely ducks the question? Easy, just make sure to take a lot of childish shots at Jason during Diggnation, so that said ignorant masses forget the real issue and fall upon their base fanboy urges to utter nothing other than bleating "OOOOH, BURN!" or "PWNED!" over and over.

And if I were one of the top submitters and got offered thousands to switch, I'd do it in a second. Why waste your life away doing that stuff for free? If you really like Digg, sure, at least approach them with a chance to match the offer, but really, who cares? Why bother being one of the top posters unless it's for financial gain? If you're submitting all those stories, do you even have time to interact with the "community." (I feel sorry for anyone wanting to belong to a part of *that* community anyway, but that's for another time.)

Of course, If I were a top user, I'd also be renegotiating things with Jason as well -- like hey bro, I know this project is worth more than 1000/month to Netscape, so quit being so stingy? And secondly, you expect me to share the same salary with that loser at #85? As if!

So anyway, if it's no skin off Kevin's back, and the Top 100 aren't really all that much more valuable than any other random 100 Diggers, why does Keven seem so worked up about the whole thing? They couldn't collect a salary from Netscape and still be part of the wonderful "community"? I don't feel like a traitor when I digg an item even though I primarily use del.icio.us, so why are so many diggers going out of their heads about his? Might lower that Digg valuation for when Kevin sells out? ;)

Mathew Ingram · 3 years ago

Thanks for the comment, Stu. I think that's even longer than my actual post. You should have a blog or something :-)

As for why top submitters do it, I'm sure some (like BloodJunkie) would be prepared to switch for cash, but I think some just do it because they want the bragging rights. Slashdot has lots of heavy contributors and it doesn't pay anybody anything. Which reminds me -- why didn't Jason extend his offer to Slashdotters?

Stu · 3 years ago

"You should have a blog or something."

Nah, I just like letting all the hype from throughout the net boil over within me and then I pop onto your comment section and vent. ;)

As for Slashdot, I don't know if it would work out. There currently doesn't seem to be a negative stigma on the top diggers, but Karma Whores are usually disdained over Slashdot. And somehow Netscape would probably end up with a lot of goatse pics on their front page.

Now I use digg sometimes myself, but as far as Digging for bragging rights amongst the diggers goes, well...ever see the '80s John Hughes flick "Sixteen Candles"? The phrase "King of the Dipshits" comes to mind. :D

Calacanus · 3 years ago

What's the big fuss about $1000/month? After taxes, I calculated you would get around $857 depending on where you live - which is around $5.36/hour based on a typical month working 160 hours.

http://www.calacANUS.com

Stu · 3 years ago

I dunno, $857 per month sounds a lot better than $0 a month. I could get myself an 2 Xbox 360s and a game every month with that.