2 May
2007
2 May
'07
4:16 p.m.
On 5/2/07, Christine Moellenberndt <chris@inreach.com> wrote:
This is a HUGE thing for online communities in my experience... the threat of your favourite site selling out not only their morals, but you in the process. I think that's a big reason why we saw the reaction from Digg'ers that we saw last night and today.
Compare with the similar experience Slashdot went through several years ago when Jon Katz announced that he was going to (or perhaps already had done so - can't recall) publish users' comments in one of his books without attribution or permission. That seemed to be more of an ownership and copyright issue than a "selling out" issue but if your assertions are correct then there are some similarities. Kevin