They're trying to compete with Digg/Reddit with *that*? It looks like Altavista circa 2000.

Firstly, based on the design of the rest of myspace, do you think the users care what it looks like?

Second, Most myspace users havent heard of digg, reddit, etc. To them this is going to be a wonderful new thing.

I'm curious, did an admin change the link to be direct to wired or was it done by msgbeepa?

To combat linkjacking, people with editor auth can replace linkjacked urls with the url of the original source. The original submitter still gets the karma points though; he was after all the one who brought it to everyone's attention.

I'm not sure I understand the motive behind the linkjacking. If ze is after a higher pagerank then ze should have noticed that YCnews uses rel=nofollow. If its karma then ze should have spotted that there is only karma gains when its a direct link. If its click throughs on the referal links then I'm pretty sure that the kind of people who read YCnews already have a paypal account and dont want to join payperpost.

Am I missing something?