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    Klebert L. Hall: They should have called it Wank Bank. Nice, memorable trademark, that tells you everything about the product. -Kle. more »
    bookwench: I shall believe it when I get goods and services from it. more »
    EndangeredRed: See: Scott Westerfeld's Extras. Reputation economy. more »
    Jack_Burton: Julia Alison has become Bernie Madoff? more »
    EdificeComplex: " Try increasing your reputation by doing or saying things that matter to others." Screw thinking for yourself. You must conform to what other people... more »
    spocko: The business plan on how to monetize this must be great. "The people who google themselves 30 times a day are suckers for vanity press, diet pills and... more »
    Ruthless, If you let me: No go for me until they start paying me for my io9 (and sister site) comments. more »
    ManchuCandidate: Oh boy a famewhore bank! It's just a bullshit metric for the self involved (who luvs them metrics) to masturbate over. more »
    RAHfanboy: OK, somebody please clue me in. Is he opposed to gay marriage, a pro-lifer in favor of teen abstinence, or a Mormon? Or God Forbid, all three? Why ... more »
    Plague: Doctorow. Probably my fastest personal "Read all his stuff" to "Just go the fuck away" to date. more »
    OliveJebbies: Cory is a gutless pseudo-intellectual hack with delusions of grandeur is a at best marginal genre his idiotic babbling about politics smacks of childi... more »
    t3knomanser: I always thought Down and Out was a cautionary tale about the dangers of reputation economies, not a suggestion on an option. more »
    AmishJohn: C'mon, Cory's got his own 'I-Love-Me' site; part of the reason I come here is because this isn't it. more »
    Grey_Area: Yah, kind of a dumb name too. Economics used to have cool sounding terms like "Invisible Hand" or "Communisim". But "Wuffie"? Please. Maybe Cory could... more »
    Mister Adequate: It always makes me wonder how the system by far the most friendly to social mobility, the system which generates more for everyone, so the pie is bigg... more »
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