Comments on: Digg’s Short-Sighted Obfuscation Efforts http://blog.andrewparker.net/2007/02/02/diggs-short-sighted-obfuscation-efforts/ Tech, Entrepreneurship, and Venture Capital in New York City Wed, 07 Jan 2009 19:33:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Andrew Parker http://blog.andrewparker.net/2007/02/02/diggs-short-sighted-obfuscation-efforts/comment-page-1/#comment-43418 Andrew Parker Sat, 03 Feb 2007 20:07:47 +0000 http://blog.andrewparker.net/2007/02/02/diggs-short-sighted-obfuscation-efforts/#comment-43418 Joe, You're absolutely right about the screenscraping instead of the API. TC confirmed it. Sarah, I'm jealous you got into the Jimmy Wales talk. I showed up at the time the talk was supposed to start and the line was out the door. They ended up turning me away due to lack of seats. Bummer. I think your extension of his insight is spot on, if you expect and design for the detrimental behavior from your users, you'll likely get it what you expect. Hope it was a good talk. Joe, You’re absolutely right about the screenscraping instead of the API. TC confirmed it.

Sarah,

I’m jealous you got into the Jimmy Wales talk. I showed up at the time the talk was supposed to start and the line was out the door. They ended up turning me away due to lack of seats. Bummer. I think your extension of his insight is spot on, if you expect and design for the detrimental behavior from your users, you’ll likely get it what you expect. Hope it was a good talk.

]]> By: Sarah http://blog.andrewparker.net/2007/02/02/diggs-short-sighted-obfuscation-efforts/comment-page-1/#comment-43389 Sarah Sat, 03 Feb 2007 14:53:57 +0000 http://blog.andrewparker.net/2007/02/02/diggs-short-sighted-obfuscation-efforts/#comment-43389 great great post, andrew. it reminds me - on thursday night i went to a talk with jimmy wales. he said you always have to assume that users will act constructively. taking it a step further from what jimmy said, i imagine once you start adding rules to stop users from acting destructively, the moral fabric of the community collapses. great great post, andrew. it reminds me - on thursday night i went to a talk with jimmy wales. he said you always have to assume that users will act constructively. taking it a step further from what jimmy said, i imagine once you start adding rules to stop users from acting destructively, the moral fabric of the community collapses.

]]> By: joe http://blog.andrewparker.net/2007/02/02/diggs-short-sighted-obfuscation-efforts/comment-page-1/#comment-43303 joe Sat, 03 Feb 2007 02:14:10 +0000 http://blog.andrewparker.net/2007/02/02/diggs-short-sighted-obfuscation-efforts/#comment-43303 I don't think he used the API. Screen-scraping is VERY easy to do with a script. No API necessary. So yes, it will be a cat-and-mouse game if Digg tries to shut these lists down (which I doubt they'll try). I don’t think he used the API. Screen-scraping is VERY easy to do with a script. No API necessary. So yes, it will be a cat-and-mouse game if Digg tries to shut these lists down (which I doubt they’ll try).

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