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Truemors: worst Digg/Reddit clone ever?
The website lets users email, text, or call in a rumor, and visitors to the site can vote the rumors up or down. The interface is pretty similar to Condé Nast's Reddit. But instead of news, users are voting on rumors in business, entertainment, politics, and news categories.
But here's the problem. There's no moderator, and you can submit rumors anonymously. So just a few hours after the site went live, it was filled with spam. Not just spam like come visit my website spam, but also spam like "Guy Kawasaki open mouth kissed my labrador." Of course, genitalia enhancement ads should be showing up shortly.
The concept of a rumor ranking site is good. And there are a few legitimate rumors on Truemor. It's just not worth the time searching through the muck to find them unless something can be done to clean up the site a bit.
[via Frantic Industries]
I don't know if this is a labor of love or merely the brainchild of four very gifted games designers, but Level Up is a really weird mash-up of gaming elements that you have probably never seen in a Flash game before.
Let's start with the premise itself: Groundhog Day meets Memento. The game experience revolves around 'days': you explore the world and the clock slowly ticks towards the evening. You bounce around picking up gems and talking to the denizens of 'Level Upland'. Eventually you feel tired and head back to ...
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Stan Schroeder said 9:57AM on 5-16-2007
I wouldn't call it the worst one ever, but yes, the fact that everything can be done anonymously - and without registration - was a major oversight.
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Kevin Little said 5:41PM on 5-16-2007
This is a perfect example of entrepreneurs trying to to rehash old ideas instead of actually working to develop value.
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lev polvoi said 5:39PM on 5-16-2007
i guess that this is the definition of shit...
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Daniel Travolto said 10:58AM on 5-20-2007
most important of all truemors lacks a target audience.
Digg: Tech guys and SEO
Hot or Not: watch hot babes young adults
Truemors: idiots who spread false rumors??
The internet is so fast that rumors don't prevail.
Another real digg alternative: http://www.vybr.com
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