The song "Hot Shot City" is particularly good. (1,042 people can't be wrong.)

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1.) Mana pool - Powered by pure venture capitalist gullibility.

2.) Big spender - How many programmers does a topsite script need? Fully-insured, Bonded, American coders? They blow through more cash a year than wikipedia! Where the hell did all this money go? They could have outsourced to India, instead they hired friends in the valley.

3.) Top secret business strategy - Real business's grow incrementally, while others don't. They don't get venture, they grow because they're solid. Instead, let's just inject $10M into that shit.

4.) Userbase - Defective gene pool - The parents of the children that inhabit the site are likely subprime mortgage "Bailout" people.

I feel a resurgence in free market principles coming on. People want to see natural selection have their way. . . You've taken psychology before, you know what defense mechanisms are, all you're going to get is denial.

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These worthless seeds swindled gullible venture capitalist to what amounts to giving PHP developers a sandbox.

Digg is nothing. Essentially a PHP version of what we would call a "top site" script in the web 1.0 days. People would click links and "vote" for their favorite sites.

Good idea? Clean website? No one gives a shit. That's not capital. I would have thought people of learned their lesson back in 2000-01.

Web 2.0 taught us all another lesson - users have very little of value contribute other than circus acts and a lot to talk about.

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Hell, my Digg account was deleted, apparently under suspicion of spamming, and I'm not even up to any mischief. Less than eight total submissions in three years -- I mostly stayed logged in so it would remember my idiot filtering for the comments. It didn't matter much to me, but all it takes is that kind of crap happening on a larger scale for the erosion of Digg's goodwill to really pick up.

So maybe Digg will solve its problems by killing its own golden goose.

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