Wow, you know the "bubble is about to burst" when blogs are throwing this kind of scratch around to get dissed. I guess generic web 2.0 startups crave any kind of press they can get these days!
** Disclaimer: This comment was sponsored by PayPerPost -- apparently some company will pay me $500 to diss 'em!
Greenpeace presents a new website in Web 2.0 where people can give ideas to improve the next expedition to Antarctic to protect the whales. You can post your idea or comment and vote other’ s ideas. The whaling fleet has left Japan, and is headed directly to the Southern Ocean. 945 whales will be killed - unless we do something to save them.
Mashable has chosen to sacrifice street cred for eyeballs -- becoming the first prominent voice in the blogosphere to sincerely flatter the PayPerPost posse with a shameless imitation of their shame-free shill service.
What's next? A flash-based scratch off card for everybody that subscribes to the RSS feed?
verlf
· 2 years ago
YOU ARE ALL CRAZY IN THE HEAD! CRAZY!! UAAARGH!!! I AM FURIOUS!! LOOK AT MY WRINCKLED NECK!!! THAT'S HOW FURIOUS I AM!!! GRRRRR!!!! WEB":=!!! *SNORT* INSANE IN THE MEMBRANE!!!
english is not my first language... :-(
DG
· 2 years ago
Oh come on, you need AJAX to clean the stoopid out of yer web 2 piehole because SOAP just isn't strong enough. You should be run out of town on a rail, just like Ruby...
deusdiabolus
· 2 years ago
...so is this contest in beta?
birdswitharms
· 2 years ago
You should allow images in posts. If you did, I would have this really bubbly and glassy font spell out, "This Contest = SUCKS!"
Mr Belding
· 2 years ago
pete cashmore? more like pete cashless with this kind of literary dribble
Goodcookn
· 2 years ago
$500 in not Web 2.0 compatible! You need to do some more due diligence on upon this start up contest.
Roth
· 2 years ago
You guys call this a social network review site? Do you think you feeble minded genital warts could figure out how to properly review a site? My god, I've wiped more intelligent life forms off my butt-hole. Think outside the box instead of copying Arrington.
Steve Poland
· 2 years ago
Pete -- this post is too funny :)
Pete Cashmore
· 2 years ago
Steve,
Unless you're being sarcastic, that doesn't qualify as an insult. Please try harder next time. ;)
KBPrinceO
· 2 years ago
Wang Chompers Incorporated sounds like a better name for this site. Coming here reminds me of this gay turkey i used to know, Mr GobblesTheCock. There's something about how ducks swallow that's so... sensual. The term "loose as a goose" would accurately describe this page, I mean the CSS layout is just... ugh...
There's no such thing as bad publicity. Unless you're Kramer.
-----
Mariana,
I love Greenpeace spam as much as the next guy - 5 bonus points!
----
Eric,
You mean we had streetcred in the first place? ;)
---------
Verlf,
Huh?
------
DG,
I'd love to, but that would cut my pageviews in half - damn you ComScore!
---
deusdiabolus,
If that means we're excused if it fails miserably, absolutely!
------- birdswitharms,
Images in posts? Photobucket sponsored our *last* contest. Unless they send over another briefcase of fresh hundred dollar bills, we ain't changin'. -------
Mr Belding,
Better insults: Pete Cashsnore, Pete Cashbore, Sir Lame-ington the Second. ------
Goodcookn,
You're right, cash is so 1.0. Would you prefer a free Flickr Pro Account and $100 Linden Dollars?
----
Roth,
"Do you think feeble minded genital warts could figure out how to properly review a site?" Sure, but they all work at rival blogs.
Marta
· 2 years ago
All you have to do now is slap an advertising-based business model on this contest, and you've got a web 2.0 company.
Pete Cashmore
· 2 years ago
Marta,
Don't forget about that all-important logo with rounded corners. Oh..wait...
Mr Belding
· 2 years ago
i have an idea for you to un-dullify this blog. put up a pic of natali. omfg natali is so hawt!!!!111eleven11!!
;)
Roth
· 2 years ago
No need for Natalia. Peter Mas Dinero es muy caliente. Pete, Si o no? Papi, te quiero en mi cama. Te quiero tener tu bebe. Papi, dime me quieres. Podemos tener vida linda junto. No mas trabajas con este "website". Salimos a Mexico y emprezamos una familia. Hay muchos chicos para adopcion.
Besitos Pete. Llamame. Jose (The pretty one)
Eat Me
· 2 years ago
Pete... just give it up. Your attempts to usurp TechCrunch in readership have become sickenly lame. The fact that you even have $500 to blow on such uselessnes is a testament to that fact. Why don't you use the money to buy a nice suit and get a real job?
Better yet, use the $500 to hire someone who actually knows what they're talking about. Maybe then I'll care about what you post... but probably not.
Pete Cashmore
· 2 years ago
"The fact that you even have $500 to blow on such uselessnes is a testament to that fact. Why don’t you use the money to buy a nice suit and get a real job?"
Spellcheckers are free. What's your excuse? ;)
aaron
· 2 years ago
wtf? you all suck.
Eat Me
· 2 years ago
I was in such a hurry to get away from this eye-numbing pile of hippo crap that I didn't care...
Pete Cashmore
· 2 years ago
You were in such a hurry to get away, in fact, that you sat here refreshing the page so that you could post a response less than 30 seconds after I replied. Nice work, gingerbread boy! ;)
Eat Me
· 2 years ago
Pete, you got me there. Too bad the only time your "readers" actually respond to your posts are to insult you...
And that dimwit aaron got in the way of my quick-fingered response.
Pete Cashmore
· 2 years ago
"Too bad the only time your “readers†actually respond to your posts are to insult you…"
Well, I was going to hold a "Say Nice Things About Pete" contest, but my hosting company advised me that such a massive number of responses could take down the entire site - we can stand up to the Digg Effect, but the We Love Pete Effect is just too powerful.
Eat Me
· 2 years ago
Pete... your site couldn't even handle the lame "social networking awards"...
And you're right, that wasn't the height of the stupidity. Each post you make raises the bar.
Pete Cashmore
· 2 years ago
Glad we're making progress in the stupidity stakes. I was going to write a post about you, but I didn't want to peak too soon.
Eat Me
· 2 years ago
Pete, I encourage you to post about my misspelled ramblings of stupidity. It would probably beat all the other gibberish you talk about.
Pete Cashmore
· 2 years ago
"I encourage you to post about my misspelled ramblings of stupidity"
The idea is to insult me, not yourself. Try again?
Darren Stuart
· 2 years ago
your momma is so big she needs 2 mySpace accounts!
:p
Shane
· 2 years ago
500 bucks?! You gotta be freakin' kidding me!! 500 LOUSY BUCKS?!!!
What kind of stupid contest is this? People want iPods Pete!! IPODS!!!
Cash is for losers. Here's what you need to do ... retract the $500 prize (just send the cash to me. I'll get it out of your way). Then, go out and buy a shiny new iPod. Write a new post telling everyone that the contest has changed and you are now giving away a cool new iPod instead of some worthless pile of cash.
Now that's a contest!!
Don't forget to send me that 500 bucks Pete. There's no telling what kind of other crazy ideas it might spark if you hang on to it.
;)
Raj
· 2 years ago
This post is almost as accurate as your 415K subscriber count.
Pete Cashmore
· 2 years ago
Lol. It took 34 comments to get to that one. ;)
Eat Me
· 2 years ago
Always begging for more, Pete? Eh... it's just too easy. I'll lay off a bit and let the other butt nuts catch up.
Eat Me
· 2 years ago
"This post is almost as accurate as your 415K subscriber count. "
Raj, don't you know? Pete has about 410,000 Google Reader accounts. What do you think he does all day?
Pete Cashmore
· 2 years ago
"What do you think he does all day?"
Judging by the amount of time you've spent on this thread, I don't need to ask the same of you. You really need this $500, don't you?
Eat Me
· 2 years ago
"You really need this $500, don’t you?"
How else would I be able to start my uber-cool Web 2.0 company? Pay a couple of script kiddies their allowance money, rip off YouTube/Facebook/MySpace/Digg, and get mentioned on Mashable (in no particular order)!
Ben Yankin
· 2 years ago
Pete Cashmore is seriously the biggest clown-shoe around. What ever happened to that Feedburner 5 billion readers image? For real though, what happened to it? It made me feel good about coming here and reading your nonsense, it reminded me that I'm not the only person in the world who has time to read your worthless blog.
But now I know that I am only one of 415k people with nothing better to do.
You waste all of our time, especially with stupid posts like this one. I could be busy fighting nose goblins, you know those boogers you devout a whole afternoon to scooping out.
I'm just kidding, I love your finger paintings babbyyy..
NOT! (90's classic)
Raj
· 2 years ago
"Mashable: Home of the Chinese-feed subscription farm."
Pete Cashmore
· 2 years ago
Raj,
Chinese sub farming? That's *so* 1.0. We use Mechanical Turk these days. ;)
paul king
· 2 years ago
Pete CashMORE, I'm Paul CashLESS... show me the money!
paul king
· 2 years ago
In other news, web 2.0 website mashable has alpha'ed to Catholicism and changed it's name to El bah sam.
Wait! Wait! Word has just arrived that the Islamist have issued Fatwa 2.0 seeking the distruction of El bah sam.
We have it on good authority that another conversion has taken place! That's right folks, El bah sam has beta'ed to Islam and will no longer be known for it's 'infidel' name.
From today forward, it will go by it's Muslim name elbahsam.
Raj
· 2 years ago
Mashable: Where the notches on our headboard are slightly more than our feed count. Beotch!
Brad G.
· 2 years ago
This is the best thread I have ever read. I want to buy it.
Additionally, I have decided that I will purchase the first 500 Web 2.0 companies that respond to my comment.
Begin...
Anonymouse.org
· 2 years ago
Vote: Zwinky!
Pete Cashmore
· 2 years ago
Lol. I think that makes 5000 votes for Zwinky so far.
Raj
· 2 years ago
Pete is to Mike what K-fed is to Britney. Zing!
Web 2.0 Skeptic
· 2 years ago
I'm flattered that I inspired you, but this is really pretty sh*tty Pete. You have no idea how this was going to go over so it would have been better to stay true to your Web 2.0 roots and call this Mashable's Insulting Comments Contest Beta. Then you could use the same excuse every Web 2.0 startup does when people criticize it. "Hey it's only in beta! Send us suggestions!" Why no sponsor for this either? Photobucket sponsored the Yet Another Social Networking Awards contest so maybe their Crapbucket subsidiary would sponsor this. For those who don't know, Crapbucket is where users host utterly useless stupid photos for free. Oh wait a minute. That is Photobucket!
Pete Cashmore
· 2 years ago
Skeptic,
"Then you could use the same excuse every Web 2.0 startup does when people criticize it. "
The whole point is that people criticize it - see the post.
"Why no sponsor for this either?"
It's sponsored by Ruduzu, the anti-social network (once again, I invite you to read the post). I was planning to get PayPerPost, but I thought that might be taking the joke a step too far.
Raj
· 2 years ago
Dood,
Hope you know that I'm totally joking. I read your blog about 414K times and enjoy it as much.
A Kevin Federline comparison was not appropriate anyway. You're more like Star Jones to the View now that I think about it.
Shame
· 2 years ago
I'm not even going to TRY to be witty. I don't want your dirty money.
Mashable has, as they say, "jumped the shark."
Small is the new big, amigo. At least pretend you don't think you're above the fray.
Pete Cashmore
· 2 years ago
Shame,
We've always been sub-par. If anything, this is an attempt to sink even lower. ;)
Bah
· 2 years ago
I guess I'll wait for web 3.0 with $1000 reward
evan
· 2 years ago
I have to say this is a lame attempt at comment-baiting!
Allen
· 2 years ago
Ok here goes - and Pete, ya know I think the world of ya, but being from NYC, I can't ever resist an insulting comment....
Mashable thinks it's so cool, it removed the dub-dub-dub from the url to get in with the flickr, youtube, delicious, kiddies.
At the arcade around the "tron" (not discs of..) game... (begin scene) Pete: Yo yo, boys, I just done wooped up my blog John: Oh yea, I just beat level 11! Pete: Damn man that's nothing, I just threw a hack into my htaccess John: oh no you didnt, tell me you didnt Pete: yea, i done did it - i removed the www John: fo shizzle? Pete: Brilliant (I am from the uk ya know) John: damn man, lemme go woop up a post on my tv channel on youtube spreading da word of mashable's bling bling url Pete: dat be dope - now i get back to archanoid Betty: Pete, i heard you been playing with your htaccess, i love men who play with their htaccess Pete: yea baby i massaged the www right out of the url, it took some time, but like its done and damn it looks good Betty: wanna go talk about your change over there by the spy hunter game? Pete: yea but let me finish my game here first, and then peep my stats on the google and then see if i can get my 'rati rating up then i will be over to show you how to work your htaccess. (end)
Now we get mashgate 2006 with a post where people are asked to pick on the pickee when the picker done picked a pickle of the pickers who didn't realize it was them that was being picked for the pickers to be picked.
And is this cash in USD or British Pounds - cuz god knows with British pounds you can't get 2 Web 2.0 companies for 500 pounds!
Tim Hibbard
· 2 years ago
Trackback:
poo
· 2 years ago
I think the $500 prize and the number of comments for this contest is way over inflated, can we please use alexa to verify these are accurate
Conor
· 2 years ago
Yet another entry into the already crowded "insults" niche market. A slick design with great features but I think they could definitely benefit from a widget. Although a well executed idea I fear a short future for the start-up.
Conor
· 2 years ago
Re-entry:
Yet another wasted entry into the already crowded "insults" niche market. A horrible design with some pathetic features and even lacking a widget, hard to get much worse. I predict a short future for this start-up as market leaders, Crapster and even-more-crapster have been around much longer. Unfortunately!
Rumor going around that Pete is dating Amanda from Rocketboom, no wait from amandaacrossamerica, no wait, from abcnews, no wait, from starringamandacongdon.
now see that be an insult straight out of the 212.
Allen
· 2 years ago
last one i promise :)
so Pete - where you getting your rss subs numbers from? Alexa?
Allen
· 2 years ago
For the love of all that is holy - can you PLEASE link your piece of crap Mashable logo so that when a homeless clicks it, you go home.
Don't be a dorkr. :-P
Pete Cashmore
· 2 years ago
Allen,
Yeah, it looks easy to do, but it's not - otherwise we would have done it by now. That said, I'll take a look.
Allen
· 2 years ago
Thank you and please understand I don't really think your logo is crap but had to do it since you require an insult to post in this thread :)
So since that is a requirement, I will diss myself...
"so Allen, that CenterNetworks really is absolute piece of manure - how can you even think for a minute that is a realiable news magazine."
Ken De Volder
· 2 years ago
This might be the first post on this website that's actually worth responding to.
Ken
· 2 years ago
You might want to keep that 500 USD and hire someone who actually knows how to write. It's not like people won't insult your blog for free anyway.
Anony-mouse
· 2 years ago
Dear Mashable, your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries.
Furthermore, your momma's so dumb she brought a cup to the movie Juice.
I would like to add, you are a cruelly ignorant pervert and a preposterous, flesh-creeping proof that God has a disturbed sense of humor.
You have also proved the theory that there is no limit to human stupidity. You should offer your posting style to hospital operating theatres as a highly-effective alternative to unconsciousness-inducing medications.
You dirty double-crossing rat. You don't frighten us, pig-dogs.
All Comments
** Disclaimer: This comment was sponsored by PayPerPost -- apparently some company will pay me $500 to diss 'em!
http://whales.greenpeace.org/global
Greenpeace presents a new website in Web 2.0 where people can give ideas to improve the next expedition to Antarctic to protect the whales. You can post your idea or comment and vote other’ s ideas. The whaling fleet has left Japan, and is headed directly to the Southern Ocean. 945 whales will be killed - unless we do something to save them.
See this, it's excellent to think!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6CbG7qopX0
What's next? A flash-based scratch off card for everybody that subscribes to the RSS feed?
english is not my first language... :-(
Unless you're being sarcastic, that doesn't qualify as an insult. Please try harder next time. ;)
www.web2-0_Social_Ajax_buddy.com
please to make donation for true dreams coming:
web2-0_startup@web2-0_Social_Ajax_buddy.com
much thanks.
There's no such thing as bad publicity. Unless you're Kramer.
-----
Mariana,
I love Greenpeace spam as much as the next guy - 5 bonus points!
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Eric,
You mean we had streetcred in the first place? ;)
---------
Verlf,
Huh?
------
DG,
I'd love to, but that would cut my pageviews in half - damn you ComScore!
---
deusdiabolus,
If that means we're excused if it fails miserably, absolutely!
-------
birdswitharms,
Images in posts? Photobucket sponsored our *last* contest. Unless they send over another briefcase of fresh hundred dollar bills, we ain't changin'.
-------
Mr Belding,
Better insults: Pete Cashsnore, Pete Cashbore, Sir Lame-ington the Second.
------
Goodcookn,
You're right, cash is so 1.0. Would you prefer a free Flickr Pro Account and $100 Linden Dollars?
----
Roth,
"Do you think feeble minded genital warts could figure out how to properly review a site?" Sure, but they all work at rival blogs.
Don't forget about that all-important logo with rounded corners. Oh..wait...
;)
Besitos Pete. Llamame.
Jose (The pretty one)
Better yet, use the $500 to hire someone who actually knows what they're talking about. Maybe then I'll care about what you post... but probably not.
Spellcheckers are free. What's your excuse? ;)
And that dimwit aaron got in the way of my quick-fingered response.
Well, I was going to hold a "Say Nice Things About Pete" contest, but my hosting company advised me that such a massive number of responses could take down the entire site - we can stand up to the Digg Effect, but the We Love Pete Effect is just too powerful.
And you're right, that wasn't the height of the stupidity. Each post you make raises the bar.
The idea is to insult me, not yourself. Try again?
:p
What kind of stupid contest is this? People want iPods Pete!! IPODS!!!
Cash is for losers. Here's what you need to do ... retract the $500 prize (just send the cash to me. I'll get it out of your way). Then, go out and buy a shiny new iPod. Write a new post telling everyone that the contest has changed and you are now giving away a cool new iPod instead of some worthless pile of cash.
Now that's a contest!!
Don't forget to send me that 500 bucks Pete. There's no telling what kind of other crazy ideas it might spark if you hang on to it.
;)
Raj, don't you know? Pete has about 410,000 Google Reader accounts. What do you think he does all day?
Judging by the amount of time you've spent on this thread, I don't need to ask the same of you. You really need this $500, don't you?
How else would I be able to start my uber-cool Web 2.0 company? Pay a couple of script kiddies their allowance money, rip off YouTube/Facebook/MySpace/Digg, and get mentioned on Mashable (in no particular order)!
But now I know that I am only one of 415k people with nothing better to do.
You waste all of our time, especially with stupid posts like this one. I could be busy fighting nose goblins, you know those boogers you devout a whole afternoon to scooping out.
I'm just kidding, I love your finger paintings babbyyy..
NOT! (90's classic)
Chinese sub farming? That's *so* 1.0. We use Mechanical Turk these days. ;)
Wait! Wait! Word has just arrived that the Islamist have issued Fatwa 2.0 seeking the distruction of El bah sam.
We have it on good authority that another conversion has taken place! That's right folks, El bah sam has beta'ed to Islam and will no longer be known for it's 'infidel' name.
From today forward, it will go by it's Muslim name elbahsam.
Additionally, I have decided that I will purchase the first 500 Web 2.0 companies that respond to my comment.
Begin...
"Then you could use the same excuse every Web 2.0 startup does when people criticize it. "
The whole point is that people criticize it - see the post.
"Why no sponsor for this either?"
It's sponsored by Ruduzu, the anti-social network (once again, I invite you to read the post). I was planning to get PayPerPost, but I thought that might be taking the joke a step too far.
Hope you know that I'm totally joking. I read your blog about 414K times and enjoy it as much.
A Kevin Federline comparison was not appropriate anyway. You're more like Star Jones to the View now that I think about it.
Mashable has, as they say, "jumped the shark."
Small is the new big, amigo. At least pretend you don't think you're above the fray.
We've always been sub-par. If anything, this is an attempt to sink even lower. ;)
Mashable thinks it's so cool, it removed the dub-dub-dub from the url to get in with the flickr, youtube, delicious, kiddies.
At the arcade around the "tron" (not discs of..) game...
(begin scene)
Pete: Yo yo, boys, I just done wooped up my blog
John: Oh yea, I just beat level 11!
Pete: Damn man that's nothing, I just threw a hack into my htaccess
John: oh no you didnt, tell me you didnt
Pete: yea, i done did it - i removed the www
John: fo shizzle?
Pete: Brilliant (I am from the uk ya know)
John: damn man, lemme go woop up a post on my tv channel on youtube spreading da word of mashable's bling bling url
Pete: dat be dope - now i get back to archanoid
Betty: Pete, i heard you been playing with your htaccess, i love men who play with their htaccess
Pete: yea baby i massaged the www right out of the url, it took some time, but like its done and damn it looks good
Betty: wanna go talk about your change over there by the spy hunter game?
Pete: yea but let me finish my game here first, and then peep my stats on the google and then see if i can get my 'rati rating up then i will be over to show you how to work your htaccess.
(end)
Now we get mashgate 2006 with a post where people are asked to pick on the pickee when the picker done picked a pickle of the pickers who didn't realize it was them that was being picked for the pickers to be picked.
And is this cash in USD or British Pounds - cuz god knows with British pounds you can't get 2 Web 2.0 companies for 500 pounds!
Yet another wasted entry into the already crowded "insults" niche market. A horrible design with some pathetic features and even lacking a widget, hard to get much worse. I predict a short future for this start-up as market leaders, Crapster and even-more-crapster have been around much longer. Unfortunately!
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Rumor going around that Pete is dating Amanda from Rocketboom, no wait from amandaacrossamerica, no wait, from abcnews, no wait, from starringamandacongdon.
now see that be an insult straight out of the 212.
so Pete - where you getting your rss subs numbers from? Alexa?
Don't be a dorkr. :-P
Yeah, it looks easy to do, but it's not - otherwise we would have done it by now. That said, I'll take a look.
So since that is a requirement, I will diss myself...
"so Allen, that CenterNetworks really is absolute piece of manure - how can you even think for a minute that is a realiable news magazine."
Furthermore, your momma's so dumb she brought a cup to the
movie Juice.
I would like to add, you are a cruelly ignorant pervert and a preposterous, flesh-creeping proof that God has a disturbed sense of humor.
You have also proved the theory that there is no limit to human stupidity. You should offer your posting style to hospital operating theatres as a highly-effective alternative to unconsciousness-inducing medications.
You dirty double-crossing rat. You don't frighten us, pig-dogs.
I blow my nose at you.