Comments on: Friday Free Business Idea: Outsourcing Digg & Reddit Circle

By: Mehul Patel

Mehul Patel — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 11:51:02 +0000

2 good, and scary too! as if this is done on a serious note the quality of DIGG will be as BAD as it can get! I IDGGED ur post and Noah I mean it OFFCIALLY u r SUPER KOOL and Smart and I cant wait to see one of your project become as BIG as DIGG, I mean it now get back to work

By: Joe Suh

Joe Suh — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 04:01:02 +0000

Had some very similar thoughts on it myself:
http://www.mychurch.org/blog/view/?ID=212

By: Jason

Jason — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 02:43:10 +0000

I think so many bloggeres digg themselves everyday. It is almost as bad as click fraud.

By: Brian Breslin

Brian Breslin — Sun, 27 Aug 2006 19:02:41 +0000

noah, this is something i thought of a couple months ago. DiggMobbing. But the real problem arises when the unpaid diggers get mad and start burying the story and marking it as spam… remember isn’t this what mechanical turk is made for? things that are simple but a computer can’t do them (beats having bots trying to beat captcha screens all day).

By: Bot Boy

Bot Boy — Sat, 26 Aug 2006 00:35:16 +0000

You don’t even need real people. You could build bots to do this.

By: Skip Tracer

Skip Tracer — Fri, 25 Aug 2006 20:14:04 +0000

BTW I just Dugg your story, so it went up another one. Good luck.

By: Skip Tracer

Skip Tracer — Fri, 25 Aug 2006 20:10:39 +0000

It is shady, but pure Genius. LOL

By: Nii A.

Nii A. — Fri, 25 Aug 2006 19:01:26 +0000

Replace india with the philippines and you’ve got half my business strategy.

By: sharpshoot

sharpshoot — Fri, 25 Aug 2006 18:51:57 +0000

While this can be done with Blogs (i.e. pay per post) because no one controls the blogosphere, a site like this can be banned by digg/reddit or netscape (although netscape needs it

By: jd

jd — Fri, 25 Aug 2006 18:40:51 +0000

You beat me to this one, I was going to do a very similar post. Only I would be willing to digg or blog anything for a fee.

It seems shady, but power users (esp. in Digg’s case) make the site worth what it’s worth ($60m last I checked). In user driven media, users with enough power will eventually realize that they can get paid (on their own if not by Calacanis).