I'm glad you're aware of this. I don't know much about blackhat SEO, but if Tipjoy becomes an "authority site" such that getting a link from you would be the difference between page 2 and page 1 of a SERP, they'd gladly pay more than a few dollars for big-revenue keywords relating to gambling, porn, and finance.
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Re:TipJoy Launches (YC winter 08)
by ivankirigin on Monday February 11, 2008 @06:21AM
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Indeed. We'll need to do something clever to prevent that. Hopefully we grow fast enough that it is a problem soon.
I'm very interested in giving more than the "top tips" page. I'd like to build a recommendation engine that give you want you want to see, based upon your past tipping behavior. That could entirely eliminate the other problems with other social news sites. We'll see.
A combination of recommendation engine, sock-puppet squelching, manual site curation, crowd sourcing, and tweaks to our hotness algorithm should be a solution.
That being said, we're probably going to add a "safe for work" mode, which you can toggle to hide questionable content.