- UGC
- Stands for “user-generated content,” a new form of online scam in which you make all the content, and we keep all the money.
(with apologies to Greg Knauss, who in turn offers apologies to Ambrose Bierce)
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What the heck is this all about
Comment by Daniel Decker — Tuesday, October 31, 2006 @ 3:04 pm
Like comments, only without parent blogposts.
Comment by Adolph Trudeau — Tuesday, October 31, 2006 @ 4:35 pm
Brilliant. Usually the pig pays the horse for his struggles!
George Orwell, you so crazy!
Comment by Ryan Thomas — Tuesday, October 31, 2006 @ 4:39 pm
what’s this about! It’s a wake up call. Good one Mark.
Comment by don — Tuesday, October 31, 2006 @ 4:41 pm
HAW! Good one!
Comment by Beerzie Boy — Tuesday, October 31, 2006 @ 5:14 pm
Don’t Reddit users, more or less, find the content, not create it?
Comment by Scott Stevenson — Tuesday, October 31, 2006 @ 6:51 pm
Scott, that just makes them more reporters and less authors. Still means Reddit gets paid for their labor.
Comment by Keith — Tuesday, October 31, 2006 @ 7:20 pm
That doesn’t make Reddit users much like reporters, either. Reporters are the ones who write most of what Reddit points to. I’d say they’re part newsroom tipster, part commentator (without any need to be informed or coherent), part participants in editing-by-committee. Many roles, rarely played well.
As an aside, it’s bizarre that ‘designed by committee’ has eveolved into a put-down, while net.hipsters now hype editing or ‘content generation’ by committee.
Comment by Ian King — Tuesday, October 31, 2006 @ 7:55 pm
>7. Don’t Reddit users, more or less, find the content, not create it?
There’s a fundamental error here. The Users are the Content. You know, medium is the message and all that.
Comment by gummi — Wednesday, November 1, 2006 @ 3:17 am
Couldn’t the same be said for Google?
Comment by Anonymous coward — Wednesday, November 1, 2006 @ 4:55 am
Using Wikipedia as the target of the supplied link is a particularly subtle irony, I’d say.
- Chris
Comment by Chris Cunningham — Wednesday, November 1, 2006 @ 12:33 pm
I thought you meant zaadz.com.
Comment by W^L+ — Thursday, November 2, 2006 @ 2:23 am
Wikipedia is a good point. If you think really hard—why, everything is a scam. Those people at Slashdot are making money off the hard-working people’s comments. And don’t even get me started on all those “forums” out there that pretend to foster a community but really are big money-farms. Gosh darn it, any website that takes user input better stay dirt-poor or compensate everybody.
Say—you better not be making any cash off my comment.
Comment by shadytrees — Friday, November 3, 2006 @ 10:53 pm