MetaFilter posts tagged with internetdrama

Livejournal circling the drain?

rmd1023 — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 05:50:38 -0800

Is the death of Livejournal immanent? After being bought by a company in Russia just over a year ago, Livejournal may be on the rocks. They've just announced big , big layoff of tech folks at Livejournal. allegedly with no severance for or warning to the employees. If you want to back up your livejournal, here's a couple of ways:

ljdump
ljarchive (see also the post here)

Sex baiting on craigslist

mathowie — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 07:17:54 -0800

Andy Baio blows the lid off a disturbing new trend: sex baiting on craigslist. The story is pretty simple: man makes up fake Casual Encounters ad posing as a woman looking for a good time, then he publishes any and all responses in a public forum. All hell breaks loose.

corruption at digg?

reklaw — Thu, 20 Apr 2006 13:43:21 -0800

Is Digg being censored? Accusations have been flying about, and posts about it on Digg itself have been getting huge numbers of votes while mysteriously staying off the front page...