Hey, I have a good idea. Let's drive enormous amounts of traffic around the internet by democracy. Yeah, I mean computers do a fine job at collecting votes for the American government, surely we can use them to decide what blog posts are good, right?

When Digg started getting popular, my first thought was "oh yeah, that's not going to get gamed". To the complete surprise of fucking nobody, you can buy Diggs for your web page. And the best part is, Digg thinks they can stop it! Now you listen to me, Private Pyle, and you listen good. Money will always be a stronger motivator than marginal interest, especially on the internet.

No Fate But What You Make For Yourself

Come with me if you want to live. By that, I mean go to Subvert and Profit and start getting paid to give Kevin Rose the finger. Shit, I'd do it for free. You hear that, S&P? Give me a call, we'll talk. I have plenty of time to kill.

Anyway, my point here is that the Digg community is so braindead that S&P's idea is a fucking ace. Let's take a random sampling of stories that made it to the front page of Digg, and you can see for yourself what I mean:

• Digg this story about Global Warming to make yourself feel like you're doing something without actually changing your energy consumption style
• Steve Jobs has diarrhea
• Coolest picture from six years ago you'll see all day! [PIC]
• Ooga Booga! Republicans!

As you can clearly see, every headline on Digg detracts from the collective sum of human knowledge. Let's move on.

They See Me Rollin', They Hatin', Patrollin' They Tryin To Catch Me Ridin' Dirty

Why do I love this pay-per-Digg thing so much? For the same exact reason that Diggers keep on Diggin': it costs me nothing. Diggers don't have to pay a dime to support their community, and I don't have to pay a dime to help tear it down, I do it just out of spite. And if I can get paid too, why the hell not?

S&P has announced that their next target is going to be StumbleUpon. I say, good for them. It looks like they've conquered Digg, so it's time to expand the empire. Subvert and Profit is taking gross advantage of Web 2.0 programmers' lack of engineering and scientific prowess, and I salute them for it. I mean come on, do you actually expect the tards who work at Digg to figure out statistical machine learning?

Keep up the good work.