[jechen]

Well what to you know, mere minutes before I saw this submission on HN I received an email from Kickstarter saying that funding for the project has been suspended. I feel like an idiot for backing the project, but I guess it comes to show that even careful curation on Kickstarter's part isn't always foolproof.

Does anyone know if other crowdsourcing sites with less stringent requirements (e.g., Indiegogo) have problems with scam like this?

[bockris]

Kobe jerky doesn't make any sense to me anyway. You don't really want a lot of fat in your jerky. It will go rancid.

[jckt]

And no offence to beef-jerky lovers, but good beef is wasted when turned into jerky...

[dagw]

True, but if I saw a bag of 7 oz. Kobe jerky in the store for 7$, I would a) question the legitimacy of it and b) buy it anyway just to see what jerky with that much fat actually tastes like. Just because something sounds like a bad idea doesn't mean it isn't worth trying just to see what happens.

[Domenic_S]

How did Kickstarter curate it?

[camus]

carefull curation ? there is next to no curation. The more projects people back the more money for kickstarter.

[makomk]

Yeah, this project was apparently reported to Kickstarter weeks ago by multiple people and they didn't give a fuck until it blew up into a huge PR shitstorm after the makers of Kickstarted found out about it. I mean, the company doesn't exist, their photos are stolen, their tastings provably didn't happen, the product probably isn't even possible let alone feasable at that price...