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Re:VC's Livid With Digg: Cash Was Not Meant for More "Bongs ... by endtwist on Thursday September 25, 2008 @11:41AM (#314918)
While this article is supposed to be satirical (I hope), it fails at even being remotely humorous. As much as I love reading an invented rant, the excessive amount of swearing just ruins the whole effect of the article and reduces it to a childish game of "look how much I can swear!"
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Re:VC's Livid With Digg: Cash Was Not Meant for More "Bongs ... by ryanb on Thursday September 25, 2008 @11:51AM (#314928)
And this is stupid, but honestly, who uses the term "mary jane"?
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Re:VC's Livid With Digg: Cash Was Not Meant for More "Bongs ... by rudyfink on Thursday September 25, 2008 @12:06PM (#314942)
Tom Petty?
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Re:VC's Livid With Digg: Cash Was Not Meant for More "Bongs ... by silentbicycle on Thursday September 25, 2008 @12:29PM (#314985)
Exactly.
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Re:VC's Livid With Digg: Cash Was Not Meant for More "Bongs ... by agotterer on Thursday September 25, 2008 @12:04PM (#314939)
"Welcome to TekPopuli... The last ugly bastard of tech journalism with unbeatably impeccable standards and incrutable insider information is the one lone blog that stands against the cronyism, the idiocy, and the hypocrisy of the new media techmemefeedification of tech news. Totally."
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Re:VC's Livid With Digg: Cash Was Not Meant for More "Bongs ... by froo on Thursday September 25, 2008 @02:02PM (#315146)
so... it's like Valleywag, just without the occasional interesting post?
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Re:VC's Livid With Digg: Cash Was Not Meant for More "Bongs ... by ilamont on Thursday September 25, 2008 @04:50PM (#315373)
My bet: Post-FSJ Dan Lyons
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Re:VC's Livid With Digg: Cash Was Not Meant for More "Bongs ... by menloparkbum on Thursday September 25, 2008 @03:15PM (#315245)
it is a satire site - it just isn't good enough to be funny.
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Re:VC's Livid With Digg: Cash Was Not Meant for More "Bongs ... by yan on Thursday September 25, 2008 @11:34AM (#314911)
I want to read more about the social news black market. Does anyone have any material or comments on it?
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Re:VC's Livid With Digg: Cash Was Not Meant for More "Bongs ... by jbenz on Thursday September 25, 2008 @12:55PM (#315030)
This an older article from WIRED (March 2007). A writer was able to buy votes to a lame, made-up blog post.

http://www.wired.com/techbiz/people/news/2007/03/72832

I'll try to find something newer.

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Re:VC's Livid With Digg: Cash Was Not Meant for More "Bongs ... by nickb on Thursday September 25, 2008 @12:55PM (#315029)
Digg specific... http://www.wired.com/techbiz/people/news/2007/03/72832
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Re:VC's Livid With Digg: Cash Was Not Meant for More "Bongs ... by biohacker42 on Thursday September 25, 2008 @12:56PM (#315033)
Are people up-voting this because they think it is funny, or because they think it's real?

It's neither.

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Re:VC's Livid With Digg: Cash Was Not Meant for More "Bongs ... by alaskamiller on Thursday September 25, 2008 @12:21PM (#314969)
It was almost believable. But I'm not sure what it's relevant to?
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Re:VC's Livid With Digg: Cash Was Not Meant for More "Bongs ... by apstuff on Thursday September 25, 2008 @12:23PM (#314972)
Psst. Hey pal. What's a fella gotta do to get Dugg?
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Re:VC's Livid With Digg: Cash Was Not Meant for More "Bongs ... by froo on Thursday September 25, 2008 @02:03PM (#315148)
Don't laugh, I actually know a few top diggers who actually do that.

No names will be mentioned, but they know exactly who they are.

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Re:VC's Livid With Digg: Cash Was Not Meant for More "Bongs ... by iamelgringo on Thursday September 25, 2008 @12:12PM (#314949)
Do you know how much money crosses hands every day in the Digg blackmarket? About $1.6 million dollars....

Wow, even if the figure is 1/10th of that, it's still a huge pile of cash.

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Re:VC's Livid With Digg: Cash Was Not Meant for More "Bongs ... by trickjarrett on Thursday September 25, 2008 @12:41PM (#315000)
How does this hit the top of HN without someone coming in and decrying it's nonhacker nature? I laughed at this, but I just want to stop and remark on the fact.
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Re:VC's Livid With Digg: Cash Was Not Meant for More "Bongs ... by froo on Thursday September 25, 2008 @02:09PM (#315158)
Yeah, Revision3 is going blue next January. 100% home-made porn.

Incoming slander lawsuit.

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Re:VC's Livid With Digg: Cash Was Not Meant for More "Bongs ... by stcredzero on Thursday September 25, 2008 @01:02PM (#315049)
Apostrophe-S is not a plural!
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Re:VC's Livid With Digg: Cash Was Not Meant for More "Bongs ... by paulgb on Thursday September 25, 2008 @01:42PM (#315108)
It's pretty commonly accepted to use an apostrophe when pluralizing an acronym. It might not technically be correct, but it improves readability, and sacrificing readability for correctness is silly.
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Re:VC's Livid With Digg: Cash Was Not Meant for More "Bongs ... by gstar on Friday September 26, 2008 @07:51AM (#315946)
But - it's very incorrect, I don't agree that it enhances readability - and moreover it makes my blood boil.

Google fails me for finding a citation, but apparently the precedent was set by cigarette advertising (for say, 25's).

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