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    Image of PontiusPirate PontiusPirate
    11/14/09

    In reply to Scam-Brokering CEO Dissed His 'Bullshit' Ethics Class
    What is most concerning is that this company is headed towards IPO and Pincus has admitted to doing "every horrible thing to get revenue." His tactics (scam revenue) are geared towards getting him the highest possible payday, and these tidbits above only confirm that he doesn't place much value on ethics.

    What's just as concerning are what the people around him (his leadership team) are doing to further enable this. His CFO, Mark Vranesh, came from Supportsoft with him. Vranesh's successor and former Finance team at Supportsoft helped them lose a 10.7 million USD class action due to the fact they over-inflated revenues - did this practice start while Vranesh and Pincus were still there?

    I'd be highly suspicious of Zynga's revenue statements in the lead up to their IPO. #markpincus
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    11/14/09

    In reply to Scam-Brokering CEO Dissed His 'Bullshit' Ethics Class
    Never trust a guy who has an aspiring male model on the payroll whose sole job is to troll blogs and post cut & paste comments about how awesome he (Pincus) is. Surely I can't be serious? Oh, yes, say hello to "Blake Loftus" #markpincus
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    Image of Brad Brown Brad Brown
    11/14/09

    @PontiusPirate: If that guy is an aspiring model, I'm Brad Pitt! #markpincus
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    11/13/09

    In reply to Scam-Brokering CEO Dissed His 'Bullshit' Ethics Class
    I consider Mark a friend but he has lied to me on more than one occasion.
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    Edited by insidefb at 11/13/09 11:39 PM insidefb was starred insidefb was unstarred
    Image of Benny Benny
    11/13/09

    In reply to Scam-Brokering CEO Dissed His 'Bullshit' Ethics Class
    Never heard of this guy, but this article has my agenda radar going berserk.

    His comments about that class hardly show him to be cynical about ethics. He's lamenting what he considers to be the disingenuousness of the whole exercise, given that everyone in the room with him was apparently a sociopath. Whatever he may have done, his point of view, based on my reading of the above remarks, is pro ethics.

    The use of the twitter post is also strange. If the guy's as bad as you imply you should be able to do better than a couple of tweets from someone who saw him speak once. #markpincus
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    Image of MissNormaDesmond MissNormaDesmond
    11/13/09

    @Benny: Have you read the Tech Crunch stories? The post assumes you have, and recognize that these things are merely further indications of the lack of ethics he's pretty much crowed about publicly. #markpincus
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    11/14/09

    @MissNormaDesmond: Should Tech Crunch be taken seriously? It always seemed to be a circle jerk of fanboyism to me. #markpincus
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    Image of MissNormaDesmond MissNormaDesmond
    11/14/09

    @bowel_and_the_obstructors: Have you read the articles?
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    Image of DevilsAvocadoRedux DevilsAvocadoRedux
    11/14/09

    @MissNormaDesmond: What about the lack of ethnics? #markpincus
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    Image of MissNormaDesmond MissNormaDesmond
    11/14/09

    @DevilsAvocadoRedux: This, too, is a serious failure. #markpincus
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    Image of forwardmotion forwardmotion
    11/13/09

    In reply to Scam-Brokering CEO Dissed His 'Bullshit' Ethics Class
    In his defense: most graduate seminars in whatever subject that last 1-4 weeks are generally bullshit. #markpincus
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    Image of Shadowlayer Shadowlayer
    11/13/09

    In reply to Class Action Suit in the Works for Victims of Social Gaming Scams
    Another sight of the bullshit that is "social gaming"

    You won't believe how much people gets hooked to this shit. And it's even weirder because these are all casual gamers that would pass on the chance of playing games like Sonic or Halo, which look complex but are really simple gameplay-wise. Yet they go and play games like mafia wars which involves lots of strategy (believe it or not) and can take you a long fucking time to get anywhere.

    Anyway, I hope these assholes (the people behind the games) get what they deserve: they arent gamers, or game devs, just merely scammers: mafia wars is a rough copy of dope wars, a real game made in......wait for it.......1992! #zynga
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    Image of BowlingForDollars BowlingForDollars
    11/13/09

    In reply to Katie Couric Reveals Who Really Controls the Media
    She can say anything she wants. I credit her and Tina Fey with helping the American public avoid four more years of Republican tyranny by helping to torpedo that idiot Sarah Palin.

    Seriously. I do. #katiecouric
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    11/13/09

    @BowlingForDollars: You know, I never thought to thank her, but I guess a card wouldn't be too late at this point, would it? #katiecouric
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    Image of Mike Jahn Mike Jahn
    11/12/09

    In reply to Katie Couric Reveals Who Really Controls the Media
    She looks hot. #katiecouric
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    Image of raincoaster raincoaster
    11/12/09

    In reply to Katie Couric Reveals Who Really Controls the Media
    BlogHer? Has this woman even been online in the past 12 months? #katiecouric
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    Image of If_I_Had_a_Poodle If_I_Had_a_Poodle
    11/12/09

    In reply to Katie Couric Reveals Who Really Controls the Media
    Yes, secular they may be, but they have the yiddishe kop #katiecouric
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    Image of Airvault Airvault
    11/12/09

    In reply to Katie Couric Reveals Who Really Controls the Media
    Poor MySpace. They never should've revamped the music player. #katiecouric
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    Image of Swifter Swifter
    11/12/09

    In reply to Katie Couric Reveals Who Really Controls the Media
    Arianna Huffington can barely control her bladder, let alone the media. #katiecouric
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    11/12/09

    In reply to Katie Couric Reveals Who Really Controls the Media
    I've been a fan of hers forever, even before she was a lesbian. #katiecouric
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    Image of misha trotsky misha trotsky
    11/12/09

    @son of spam: I thought just her ex was gay. True story: I fitted Michael Huffington with eyeglasses when they lived in DC. #katiecouric
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    Image of son of spam son of spam
    11/12/09


    @misha trotsky: She's morphing into Suze Orman, which maybe isn't the best person to morph into.
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    Edited by son of spam at 11/12/09 9:37 PM son of spam was starred son of spam was unstarred
    Image of Mike Jahn Mike Jahn
    11/12/09

    @misha trotsky: That was before he made a spectacle of himself. #katiecouric
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    11/12/09

    @Mike Jahn: bada-bing! #katiecouric
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    Image of Conchie Birdie Conchie Birdie
    11/13/09

    @son of spam: I know this is all in good humor... but straight women don't always have to look like Betty Draper and they (we) can actually do things too. Not sure where you were trying to go with this one - especially because, and you should know this by now, I usually enjoy your remarks. #katiecouric
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    Image of son of spam son of spam
    11/13/09

    @Conchie Birdie: CB, check PM. #katiecouric
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    Image of Conchie Birdie Conchie Birdie
    11/13/09

    @son of spam: Thanks, now check yours, por favor. #katiecouric
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    Image of Uncle_Billy_Slumming Uncle_Billy_Slumming
    11/12/09

    In reply to Katie Couric Reveals Who Really Controls the Media
    She's soooooooo cute, and clever too (but I don't mean "clever" in a condescending way, like many people do) #katiecouric
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    Image of CrayonSmoothie CrayonSmoothie
    11/12/09

    @Uncle_Billy_Slumming: I would never call her "clever". She seems more insipid than anything else. And a little bit smarmy too.
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    Uncle_Billy_Slumming promoted this comment Edited by CrayonSmoothie at 11/12/09 8:58 PM CrayonSmoothie was starred CrayonSmoothie was unstarred
    Image of Uncle_Billy_Slumming Uncle_Billy_Slumming
    11/12/09

    @CrayonSmoothie: Oh that's just because you don't like her. #katiecouric
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    Image of MissNormaDesmond MissNormaDesmond
    11/12/09

    In reply to Class Action Suit in the Works for Victims of Social Gaming Scams
    This is one reason why I sort of don't blame some of the people who were duped: isn't it perfectly obvious that sooner or later this kind of crap is going to bite you in the ass? Forget how dumb you have to be to give your cell # to an IQ test -- how stupid do you have to be to rob people in plain sight in easily traceable ways and think you can get away with it indefinitely? Or to openly associate yourself with such people? I can see people thinking, "Well, this is probably legit, because how easy would it be to nab these people if it weren't?"
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    Image of bens bens
    11/12/09

    @MissNormaDesmond: Dumb enough to pay $10 to get the results from a 4 question IQ test. #zynga
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    Image of MissNormaDesmond MissNormaDesmond
    11/12/09

    @bens: Are you saying that the robbers are ultimately as dumb as or dumber than the robbees? Because I'd tend to agree with you. If they'd pulled this as a quick scam and gotten out before they got too much stink on them, I'd have to give them credit for being slick, if sleazy. By sticking with it for this long, I think they've outsmarted themselves pretty badly. #zynga
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    11/12/09

    @MissNormaDesmond: In this instance, yes. If you're going to be a robber, having an advertising contract with Facebook isn't a good idea. Become an art thief. It saves you from having to pay developers to code crappy games. #zynga
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    11/12/09

    @MissNormaDesmond: oh yeah, robbees is totally fun to say. #zynga
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