Scoopit or Shill-it?

The top 2 stories on Scoopit right now are shills – one for ‘inpageads’ (to much text te read, but some sort of ad thing) and another for ‘Tubby‘ (an orange, usable Ferrit killer in its infancy.)

It’s a shame. Scoopit had (or perhaps still has) a chance at being the Digg for NZ, but their woefully slow performance killed it for me. It got so bad that I could not post a link there, so I just stopped doing so.

Meanwhile the virility of the site has gone, with articles on the front page moving very slowly, and now the marketers have taken over.

Sad.

Please clean it up guys. I notice the speed is up to scratch now – perhaps the thresholds need to be lowered to get more action?
Scoopit!