Digg for the money

Filed in archive on October 2, 2006

Recently I highlighted an issue around misuse (abuse ?) of digg, the site where you are supposed to vote for your favorite sites or articles. This time I would like to show you a site that is typical for the time we live in : User/Submitter.

user/Submitter is just like Digg but works slightly different : The submitter pays a fee, the digger gets paid. Submitting a story costs 20 USD plas an additional 1 USD per digg. Digging a story pays 0,5 USD per 5 articles. Personally, I think the difference between those two is too big. And I really wonder if this will work. But at least the site is clear about it's intentions and about how it works. At User/Submitter, digging is all about money.....