Comments on: Digg for free vs. Digg for dough http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2006/08/06/digg-for-free-vs-digg-for-dough/ ... at the intersection of media, technology, business and the web Wed, 07 Jan 2009 00:05:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Legalizing The Underground Digg Economy http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2006/08/06/digg-for-free-vs-digg-for-dough/comment-page-1/#comment-98190 Legalizing The Underground Digg Economy Fri, 08 Dec 2006 19:41:02 +0000 http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2006/08/06/digg-for-free-vs-digg-for-dough/#comment-98190 [...] The point here is not to out the Diggers or the sites they are working for, so I have left out the name of the person emailing me, his position, and the company he works for. While I personally don’t condone getting paid by content producers to contribute content to socially driven sites, it is understandable why people do and here is my attempt to understand why monetarily motivating the ’social’ aspect of social media gets a bad rep., and how to rectify the problem without compromising the sites’ integrity and quality. I remember Kevin Rose saying that he wants Digg to be a “true, free, democratic social platform devoid of monetary motivations,” and that “When something makes it to the front page, the only motivation should be that the story was interesting to somebody, not that they were paid to do it.” I completely disagree with people who think it is a bad idea to monetarily motivate social bookmarkers. [...] [...] The point here is not to out the Diggers or the sites they are working for, so I have left out the name of the person emailing me, his position, and the company he works for. While I personally don’t condone getting paid by content producers to contribute content to socially driven sites, it is understandable why people do and here is my attempt to understand why monetarily motivating the ’social’ aspect of social media gets a bad rep., and how to rectify the problem without compromising the sites’ integrity and quality. I remember Kevin Rose saying that he wants Digg to be a “true, free, democratic social platform devoid of monetary motivations,” and that “When something makes it to the front page, the only motivation should be that the story was interesting to somebody, not that they were paid to do it.” I completely disagree with people who think it is a bad idea to monetarily motivate social bookmarkers. [...]

]]> By: Diggers will find a way to get paid » Mathew Ingram: mathewingram.com/work http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2006/08/06/digg-for-free-vs-digg-for-dough/comment-page-1/#comment-97950 Diggers will find a way to get paid » Mathew Ingram: mathewingram.com/work Fri, 08 Dec 2006 04:46:05 +0000 http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2006/08/06/digg-for-free-vs-digg-for-dough/#comment-97950 [...] If nothing else, Jason Calacanis did one thing while he was running the revamped Netscape.com: By hiring away some of the top users at Digg, he ignited a debate about whether to compensate the top submitters to a “social media” site. Digg co-founder Kevin Rose said that he would never pay top Diggers because it would ruin the open and social nature of the site, and I tend to agree with him (I wrote about it here and here). [...] [...] If nothing else, Jason Calacanis did one thing while he was running the revamped Netscape.com: By hiring away some of the top users at Digg, he ignited a debate about whether to compensate the top submitters to a “social media” site. Digg co-founder Kevin Rose said that he would never pay top Diggers because it would ruin the open and social nature of the site, and I tend to agree with him (I wrote about it here and here). [...]

]]> By: mathewingram.com/media » Diggers will find a way to get paid http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2006/08/06/digg-for-free-vs-digg-for-dough/comment-page-1/#comment-97948 mathewingram.com/media » Diggers will find a way to get paid Fri, 08 Dec 2006 04:42:39 +0000 http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2006/08/06/digg-for-free-vs-digg-for-dough/#comment-97948 [...] If nothing else, Jason Calacanis did one thing while he was running the revamped Netscape.com: By hiring away some of the top users at Digg, he ignited a debate about whether to compensate the top submitters to a “social media” site. Digg co-founder Kevin Rose said that he would never pay top Diggers because it would ruin the open and social nature of the site, and I tend to agree with him (I wrote about it here and here). [...] [...] If nothing else, Jason Calacanis did one thing while he was running the revamped Netscape.com: By hiring away some of the top users at Digg, he ignited a debate about whether to compensate the top submitters to a “social media” site. Digg co-founder Kevin Rose said that he would never pay top Diggers because it would ruin the open and social nature of the site, and I tend to agree with him (I wrote about it here and here). [...]

]]> By: Paying the users — an ongoing saga » Mathew Ingram: mathewingram.com/work http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2006/08/06/digg-for-free-vs-digg-for-dough/comment-page-1/#comment-49080 Paying the users — an ongoing saga » Mathew Ingram: mathewingram.com/work Thu, 14 Sep 2006 00:19:55 +0000 http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2006/08/06/digg-for-free-vs-digg-for-dough/#comment-49080 [...] I’ll leave questions of spin to the spin-meister. I’m not convinced that the issue of paying submitters for their work is quite settled yet. As I wrote when Jason jumped up to confront Yochai Benkler about his theories on social networks, I think there are a lot of questions yet unanswered (Marshall Kirkpatrick has a nice overview of the issues at TechCrunch). [...] [...] I’ll leave questions of spin to the spin-meister. I’m not convinced that the issue of paying submitters for their work is quite settled yet. As I wrote when Jason jumped up to confront Yochai Benkler about his theories on social networks, I think there are a lot of questions yet unanswered (Marshall Kirkpatrick has a nice overview of the issues at TechCrunch). [...]

]]> By: Lina Papasotiriou http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2006/08/06/digg-for-free-vs-digg-for-dough/comment-page-1/#comment-31560 Lina Papasotiriou Wed, 09 Aug 2006 19:33:58 +0000 http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2006/08/06/digg-for-free-vs-digg-for-dough/#comment-31560 Hi Mathew, I do not think there is anything wrong with people getting paid for their work. I think good work should be recognized and one way to earn such recognition is monetary. Nothing wrong with doing what you love and getting paid for it. Lina Hi Mathew,

I do not think there is anything wrong with people getting paid for their work. I think good work should be recognized and one way to earn such recognition is monetary. Nothing wrong with doing what you love and getting paid for it.

Lina

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