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$7.25/hour, nice!!

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Yeh, to be clear I actually enjoy the art in some of the posts you've made, but I share the same wonder as the original commenter as to what "artsy hack" means, really.

Not a big deal, though, of course. :)

He posts these things all the time for some reason, all to the same website. People have asked before how it has anything to do with "hackers" and to my knowledge there haven't been any responses from the OP.

Just last week I found a research paper I published while at Cornell on Scribd -- no attribution at all, no permissions, etc. It's a paper that in normal circulation costs $50 to purchase (and has been purchased a few thousand times -- whether $50 is reasonable or not is a discussion for another thread, of course).

I considered letting my editor know about it to see if she wanted me to request it be taken down, but then I figured I'd rather more people see the paper anyway so left it alone.

I really connected to this piece a lot: I'm in my 20s, in NYC for the first time, grew up in the South, and am completely infatuated with this place for some unable-to-be-explained reason.

  I suppose that a lot of us who have been very young in New
  York have the same scenes in our home screens. I remember 
  sitting in a lot of apartments with a slight headache about 
  five o’clock in the morning. I had a friend who could not 
  sleep...

It's so easy to fall in love with this city but so hard to describe the reason why. She did a great job.

total karma / # comments = average?

You really need to provide much more detail about the type of site you're running, how/if it makes money, whether you're comfortable working as a contractor for the larger company, etc.

Also, know that traffic milestones are way too easily taken advantage of (inflation and deflation of numbers is very simple in practice) -- I would suggest coming up with another way of tracking your growth than by pageviews.

I find that most often the "spam" that comes up on searches is on the user-submit-enabled sites -- vimeo, myplick, authorstream, slideshare, scribd, etc. -- and it's their lack of moderation that is the issue. (Do a search right now for "watch colts vs packers online" and see what I mean.)

Blacklisting those entire sites would seem to be a real disservice to the legitimate content that is uploaded, but then again, if the site administrators can't keep their content in order, why are they getting crawled by the G so often anyway?

The real deal is this, in many cases: the spam that's created on those sites during certain times is foreseeable and follows a particular pattern -- it's created based around news or events, such as sports, movies, sex tape outings, etc. -- so it would seem easy to get rid of the spam before it hits the search engines, right? One option is just to expect an influx during certain time periods and increase moderation during that time. Another option is to prevent new users from publishing content until they've submitted moderator-approved non-spam content first.

But that would mean those sites don't get the impressions... and impressions-->ads-->$$$... so where's their incentive?