Tag: Jason Calacanis

First Digg Scam Outed?

Tags: Digg + Scam + Nathan Schorr + Karim + Jet Numbers Inc + Jason Calacanis

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Posted by MarcoPolo 1 year 11 months ago; via calacanis.com/2006/12/12/...

Jason Calacanis wrote about how the first Digg scam had been outed. Here are the confirmed facts of what happened between Karim, Nathan, and Digg.

Like most of us top Diggers, Karim also received the email from Nathan Schorr regarding getting paid to submit content about Jet Numbers Inc. to Digg. Unlike most of the other Diggers, however, Karim replied to the Nathan’s email and said that if Nathan provided him with a url, a title, and a good story description, Karim would submit it the story to Digg. Nathan was understandably delighted to...

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Kevin Rose: Netscape's Model 'A Bad Idea,'

Tags: Kevin Rose + Digg + Netscape + Jason Calacanis

MarcoPolo
Posted by MarcoPolo 2 years 2 months ago; via blog.wired.com/monkeybite...

While speaking at the Future of Web Apps summit, Digg founder Kevin Rose reaffirmed his position in the debate over whether top users should be paid for their submissions, branding Netscape's model as "a bad idea."

"It's very important to us that there are no outside motivations for posting stories to Digg," Rose said. "When something makes it to the front page, the only motivation should be that the story was interesting to somebody, not that they were paid to do it."

Digg's competitor, Netscape.com, pays its top users around $1000 per...

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