When did the Internet get so slimey?
DanielBMarkham: I recently placed a Jeep on Craigslist for sale.Within hours my inbox had an email from another "CL'er""Hey man, you still got that for sale?""yes"Within seconds, the reply came: "You're asking too little for that. Check out this website XXX to see what I mean"This was cute the first time, but after a dozen times (with varying and more sophisticated social pitches) it wasn't so much fun any more.Here's the kicker: I probably know some of the guys doing this. You probably know some of them too. I know for a fact some of them are HN'ers. These are guys who started out wanting to change the world for the better, and now they're writing bots to skim a few cents at a time off tens of thousands of people.I'm not going to say "get off my lawn, kids!" but I honestly don't know if the benefits of the net are going to outweigh the drawbacks. Do we transform into lots of super-intelligent man-machines? Or one big collective lump of fat sitting in our easy chairs, unable and unwilling to move and engage the real world?