Truemors: worst Digg/Reddit clone ever?

Guy Kawasaki's new startup, Truemors is live. But it's also kind of dead.

The website lets users email, text, or call in a rumor, and visitors to the site can vote the rumors up or down. The interface is pretty similar to Condé Nast's Reddit. But instead of news, users are voting on rumors in business, entertainment, politics, and news categories.

But here's the problem. There's no moderator, and you can submit rumors anonymously. So just a few hours after the site went live, it was filled with spam. Not just spam like come visit my website spam, but also spam like "Guy Kawasaki open mouth kissed my labrador." Of course, genitalia enhancement ads should be showing up shortly.

The concept of a rumor ranking site is good. And there are a few legitimate rumors on Truemor. It's just not worth the time searching through the muck to find them unless something can be done to clean up the site a bit.

[via Frantic Industries]

Tags: digg, guy kawasaki, GuyKawasaki, reddit, truemors