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Re: Mashable’s Insulting Comments Contest – $500 Prize!

notenking — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 08:42:30 -0000

500$ only for insulting comments,so little ,wow

Re: Mashable’s Insulting Comments Contest – $500 Prize!

newskicks.com — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 07:28:13 -0000

its a nice site i dont find anything to insult :)

Re: Mashable’s Insulting Comments Contest – $500 Prize!

Deralaand — Mon, 01 Jan 2007 18:53:57 -0000

Snarky!

Re: Mashable’s Insulting Comments Contest – $500 Prize!

Anony-mouse — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 19:49:11 -0000

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.

I blow my nose at you.

Re: Mashable’s Insulting Comments Contest – $500 Prize!

Ken — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 13:51:10 -0000

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.

Re: Mashable’s Insulting Comments Contest – $500 Prize!

Ken De Volder — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 13:41:04 -0000

This might be the first post on this website that's actually worth responding to.

Re: Mashable’s Insulting Comments Contest – $500 Prize!

Allen — Sat, 30 Dec 2006 17:40:08 -0000

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."

Re: Mashable’s Insulting Comments Contest – $500 Prize!

Pete Cashmore — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 22:04:27 -0000

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.

Re: Mashable’s Insulting Comments Contest – $500 Prize!

Allen — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 21:49:11 -0000

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

Re: Mashable’s Insulting Comments Contest – $500 Prize!

Allen — Thu, 28 Dec 2006 19:13:12 -0000

last one i promise :)

so Pete - where you getting your rss subs numbers from? Alexa?

Re: Mashable’s Insulting Comments Contest – $500 Prize!

Allen — Thu, 28 Dec 2006 17:35:18 -0000

Ok Pete - here is another one....

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.

Re: Mashable’s Insulting Comments Contest – $500 Prize!

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Re: Mashable’s Insulting Comments Contest – $500 Prize!

Conor — Thu, 28 Dec 2006 14:56:48 -0000

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!

Re: Mashable’s Insulting Comments Contest – $500 Prize!

Conor — Thu, 28 Dec 2006 12:50:26 -0000

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.

Re: Mashable’s Insulting Comments Contest – $500 Prize!

poo — Thu, 28 Dec 2006 12:39:11 -0000

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

Re: Mashable’s Insulting Comments Contest – $500 Prize!

Tim Hibbard — Thu, 28 Dec 2006 10:36:51 -0000

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Re: Mashable’s Insulting Comments Contest – $500 Prize!

Allen — Thu, 28 Dec 2006 09:45:17 -0000

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!

Re: Mashable’s Insulting Comments Contest – $500 Prize!

evan — Thu, 28 Dec 2006 07:49:42 -0000

I have to say this is a lame attempt at comment-baiting!

Re: Mashable’s Insulting Comments Contest – $500 Prize!

Bah — Thu, 28 Dec 2006 05:59:21 -0000

I guess I'll wait for web 3.0 with $1000 reward

Re: Mashable’s Insulting Comments Contest – $500 Prize!

Pete Cashmore — Thu, 28 Dec 2006 03:44:33 -0000

Shame,

We've always been sub-par. If anything, this is an attempt to sink even lower. ;)

Re: Mashable’s Insulting Comments Contest – $500 Prize!

Shame — Thu, 28 Dec 2006 03:41:54 -0000

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.

Re: Mashable’s Insulting Comments Contest – $500 Prize!

Raj — Thu, 28 Dec 2006 02:55:34 -0000

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.

Re: Mashable’s Insulting Comments Contest – $500 Prize!

Pete Cashmore — Thu, 28 Dec 2006 02:45:57 -0000

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.

Re: Mashable’s Insulting Comments Contest – $500 Prize!

Web 2.0 Skeptic — Thu, 28 Dec 2006 02:33:34 -0000

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!

Re: Mashable’s Insulting Comments Contest – $500 Prize!

Raj — Thu, 28 Dec 2006 00:40:09 -0000

Pete is to Mike what K-fed is to Britney. Zing!