Social News Sites Pay Top Submitters

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."

Comments

Where's My Cheque from Slashdot

[pipingguy]

Cue the replies in 1, 2, ...

Re:Journalism 2.0?

[Anonymous Coward]

A good journalist needs to find stories that interest the readers, that drive up hits, and generate advertising revenue.

Around here we call that trolling. And we do it for free!

Re:Key word: Community

[Anonymous Coward]

With something like a banner that flashes "You are visitor number 1000! Click here to claim your prize!"? Because nobody's ever seen anything like THAT before.

Insightful response.

[telchine]

I have an insigtful response to this Slashdot article. However, I'm not responding until someone stumps up the cash.

How things change

[chemindefer]

Netscape is hiring Navigators...and they used to give them away.

Looks like they missed the comedy name in TFA

[Badfysh]

>wrote someone with the screen name Wayne Kerr

I bet he's pleased with himself for getting a mention. Bart Simpson would be proud.

Re:Slashdot Pokes Fun at "social news site"

[Millenniumman]

agreed