The problems with url shorteners

Re:The problems with url shorteners by thorax on Friday April 03, 2009 @06:31PM (#545774)

We didn't make the problem. We're just having fun with silly URL hacks and giving people something fun to show their friends. While we're at it, we're trying to do it the best way we know how.

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Re:The problems with url shorteners by zanders on Friday April 03, 2009 @06:36PM (#545779)

Good comeback.

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Re:The problems with url shorteners by joshu on Friday April 03, 2009 @06:38PM (#545780)

There's always the choice not to participate in some activity.

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Re:The problems with url shorteners by ojbyrne on Friday April 03, 2009 @07:34PM (#545842)

Among other things, that would have solved the Great Depression, World War I, and Germany's hyperinflation in the thirties. Also AIDS.

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Re:The problems with url shorteners by spinchange on Saturday April 04, 2009 @12:02AM (#546041)

Yep, Linkrot is right up there.

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Re:The problems with url shorteners by ojbyrne on Saturday April 04, 2009 @12:29PM (#546412)

This comment suggests you don't understand my point. Which is basically that people will act in their own individual interest even when its obvious that if everyone does the same thing, bad things are the inevitable result.

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