Social News Sites Pay Top Submitters 95
prostoalex writes "With the proliferation of social news sites relying on users to submit and vote for content, quite a few of newcomers to the industry face the need to pay top submitters or hire people away from other social news sites, the Washington Post reports. The phenomenon has also led to the appearance of the surfing jobs, where people are paid mostly to surf the Web and find out new links." From the article: "The system depends on a steady stream of contributors like Spring. Last month, Netscape said it would be the first to pay the most active contributors -- $1,000 a month to post at least 150 stories during that time to its newly redesigned Web site. The job qualifications are rather fuzzy, but an executive said active 'navigators' or 'social bookmarkers' provide a valuable service because they keep the site's content varied and fresh."
Where's My Cheque from Slashdot (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Journalism 2.0? (Score:1, Funny)
Around here we call that trolling. And we do it for free!
Re:Key word: Community (Score:1, Funny)
Insightful response. (Score:5, Funny)
How things change (Score:5, Funny)
Looks like they missed the comedy name in TFA (Score:2, Funny)
I bet he's pleased with himself for getting a mention. Bart Simpson would be proud.
Re:Slashdot Pokes Fun at "social news site" (Score:3, Funny)