there's something particularly barf-worthy about not only renting a mob to advance your political agenda, but paying them with play money into the bargain.
How do they know that the players are actually writing letters? How do they know they don't just click "Yeah, sure, I wrote it. Now, where's my [virtual currency]?"<p>I suspect the number of people doing this would rather dwarf the number of people who actually bother to write letters.
Paying for outrage is not new. I used to work in D.C. and almost every week there were ads in the paper for protesters. As I remember, it was relatively good pay if you were of college age.<p>But virtual money for emails? I have to say I like it. Now everybody can be fake outraged.<p>Or maybe I should say I'm outraged?