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- DiggityDugged, on 02/02/2008, -39/+2123I would LOVE to see a front page post linking to Dictionary.com being marked as inaccurate.
- heucuva, on 02/02/2008, -160/+658Digg this if you are tired of religion.
- Haplo7, on 02/02/2008, -19/+408I guess part of the problem with digg is that you can't really tell who buries an article or can at least see how many people bury something. There is also no way to reverse the effect of an article 'being marked as inaccurate' which can at times be annoying.
Some people might be a bit upset that the digg front page was flooded with anti-scientology stories last week. But it is still odd to see some interesting articles/videos getting buried before ever reaching the front page.
It happened to these two digg articles and I assume a few more:
http://digg.com/world_news/Someone_responds_to_Ano ...
http://digg.com/world_news/The_Economist_reports_o ... - inactive, on 02/02/2008, -23/+385Dugg because Scientology is an evil cult and I want to piss off the ones burrying it.
- dunk71, on 02/02/2008, -24/+331Scientology's not a religion.
- toxicityj, on 02/02/2008, -45/+279You're not going to believe this, but I buried you! I know, I know. You can't believe it either. But trust me, I did.
- AussieJames, on 02/02/2008, -11/+226fools!
Dictionary.com will now be hacked by Scientologists and the definition of cult will be changed! - SRSco, on 02/02/2008, -138/+287Congrats, you're well on your way to getting FP'd. You only had to spam the link on every ***** submission on Digg.
http://digg.com/users/DiggityDugged/history/commen ...
You're the reason people like to bury this crap. You don't belong on Digg. Go back to 4chan. - nsummy, on 02/02/2008, -29/+157How can anyone say Scientology stories are being buried? This site has been nothing but anti-Scientology articles lately!
- TheTaoOfBill, on 02/02/2008, -7/+122We lost a lot of men in that war....
We'll always remember...09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 - allywilson, on 02/02/2008, -20/+126I dugg every comment - because I like to be different.
- GibitStylin, on 02/02/2008, -6/+110... lets see what happens on feb 10. Dugg.
- DiggityDugged, on 02/02/2008, -37/+131Agreed, I don't like when Digg is abused to promote things frequently either, but Digg abuse for means of censorship is never acceptable. Ever.
- ConfusedONE, on 02/02/2008, -3/+88If you were a Scientologist, you would know that Xenu is the enemy.
- nunu4u, on 02/02/2008, -42/+125Ha, ha the Scientologists are freaking out, trying to bury the truth again. They will not be successful against Anonymous. The people are pissed.
- nepawoods, on 02/02/2008, -36/+118Inaccurate can mean that the title used by the submitter is not an accurate description of the contents of the link.
- MiltonWaddams, on 02/02/2008, -53/+134The problem is that anything with Scientology in the title makes it to the upcoming section. Most of it is extremely dumb. Two 15 year olds who make a video of themselves passing out flyers in front of a COS center in "V for Vendetta" masks isn't FP material. So rather than reading through all of the stories, some which may be noteworthy, many Diggers just bury them all. It's the same thing that happened with Ron Paul. The RP Diggers submitted EVERY article they found and group Dugg them. People got sick of it and decided to wholesale bury. Blaming burried COS stories on Scientologists is laughable.
- Meyithi, on 02/02/2008, -28/+108Diggers are sick of seeing these Scientology articles on the front page? Well guess what Diggers, I'm sick of seeing your top ten lists of utter rubbish and feeding your adwords.
- jeffsback2223, on 02/02/2008, -8/+86You'll notice that since a fairly large mass of people here on Digg like the story, it gets front paged. whether you like it or not, Many people including 4-chaners are diggers. Their story has every the same right to be up hear as "Ron Paul" stories or "bush made another mess of our constitution" stories.
- inactive, on 02/02/2008, -8/+85You weren't here during the HD-DVD key war, were you?
- nepawoods, on 02/02/2008, -7/+83"if you look at my Digg front page stats, i've been around for years, and i was ranked top 100 users of digg til last month. so there!"
Your next milestone: puberty. - nunu4u, on 02/02/2008, -10/+82Scientologists are so dumb they forgot their censorship sparked Anonymous. Further censorship just makes us more resolved. See them on the board, trying to start dissension. Not going to work either...
- TheDHC, on 02/02/2008, -20/+86scientologists: die in a flash flood
- mikev, on 02/02/2008, -12/+73comment abuse...
***** SCIENTOLOGY - inactive, on 02/02/2008, -56/+115Religion is a joke period..just more of a joke when its charged for services...
- misterhat, on 02/02/2008, -4/+61But have you ever seen what the inaccurate tag actually says? It says something to the effect of "Information contained in this article is inaccurate". It does not say a thing about the title.
- portis, on 02/02/2008, -13/+67What the *****? There are thetan buggers here on digg? Why can't these ***** leave us alone?
- thickdrummer, on 02/02/2008, -2/+51Be careful what you wish for. It just happened this very second!
- revenantprime, on 02/02/2008, -7/+54YET SOMEHOW it is now "warning, this may be inaccurate"
THE IRONY! - STKD, on 02/02/2008, -6/+53Then there is no problem here. Unless the dictionary is wrong...
- inactive, on 02/02/2008, -15/+62It's not for you to decide who belongs here and who doesn't.
- unicronband, on 02/02/2008, -6/+51While this may be a case of Anon "gaming" Digg (I think spamming is the wrong term), nearly everything else on the front page could fall into that category as well (Cracked lists, gaming blogs, presidential candidates). I think the lolcatz submissions are moronic, but I don't bury them, I just ignore them and let the people who like them digg away.
I think Diggers have gotten carried away with burying anything they disagree with. Burying a story should be reserved for the most dire offenses (blatant inaccuracies, balls-out spam, horribly offensive material...). By burying stories, you are preventing other people who may be interested in them from checking them out.
Now this isn't going to stop those with an agenda from forming Bury Brigades to censor the news, and until Digg adds a layer of transparency to the bury system (we can see who dugg a story but not who buried it WTF?), stories are going to disappear. For people who care about the quality of Digg, please don't be so quick to bury something just because you don't find it newsworthy. Some day you may find the stories that are relevant to your interests disappearing from Digg.
That is all.
/end rant - sstidman, on 02/02/2008, -6/+51Scientology isn't a religion, regardless of what they say.
- TheFiestyFaun, on 02/02/2008, -30/+72BTW, I buried you too.
- br0ck, on 02/02/2008, -7/+44Actually, Scarlett Johansson showed up for the mission impossible gig and said no after a few hours of hard core proselyting at the Scientology center. A few weeks later Katie Holmes went to interview, went missing for a month and came out engaged and a Scientologist. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8133757/
Not to mention that the latest Cruise biography says that before she started dating Cruise, Katie Holmes signed an agreement to follow Scientology and never give any psychological treatment to herself or her future kids. http://www.idontlikeyouinthatway.com/2008/01/scien ...
The “Lost in Translation” star was expected to co-star with Cruise in “Mission: Impossible III” but was dropped because of “scheduling conflicts.” But it seems that there may have been other conflicts as well. Cruise invited Johansson to a Scientology center where he showed her literature about joining his controversial church, according to a report. “After two hours of proselytizing,” according to RadarMagazine.com, “Cruise opened a door to reveal a second room full of upper-level Scientologists who had been waiting to dine with the pair, at which point the cool-headed ingénue politely excused herself.”
The Scoop called Johansson’s mother/manager for comment and she declined, referring us to Johansson’s publicist, who didn’t return calls or emails. Cruise’s rep didn’t respond to requests for comment, but Rick Ross of CultNews.com told the Scoop: “Is this Tom Cruise’s version of a first date? It’s becoming increasingly difficult to make distinctions between his personal, professional and religious life. Tom Cruise and Scientology seem intent on recruiting a hot young star. Apparently, Scarlett Johansson flunked her test, but Katie Holmes passed.” - Darkkshadow449, on 02/02/2008, -3/+40It's a cult thing...
- KraigR, on 02/02/2008, -6/+42***** them..*****
- LupeFiasco, on 02/02/2008, -9/+44No it is not you *****.
- kreatre2007, on 02/02/2008, -4/+39I may be wrong but, didn't L. Ron Hubbard admit that he created this "religion" out of his own imagination? How can the scientologists actually believe in this crap? I'm an atheist but, even Christianity sounds more believable than scientology.
- dhughes, on 02/02/2008, -0/+34Scientology isn't a religion in Canada, it's seen for what it is, which is a cult or the very least an MLM scam.
- cosinezero, on 02/02/2008, -3/+35I don't see the problem... I think it's pretty great actually. We need to make MORE scientology posts and LET THEM do what they want - for two reasons.
1. This wastes their time and money, hunting through digg to find all the articles they need to bury.
2. This potentially exposes key scientology minions to the truth.
This is EXACTLY what Anonymous wants.
Let them come! Let them bury. If Anonymous is really going to win this, they need to keep THEIR promise - for each fallen, ten more rise up to take their place.
In christian mythology, there is the parable of the Sower;
"Behold, a sower went forth to sow: And when he sowed, some seeds fell by the wayside, and the fowls came and devoured them up: Some fell upon stony places, where they had not much earth: and forthwith they sprung up, because they had no deepness of earth: And when the sun was up, they were scorched; and because they had no root, they withered away. And some fell among the thorns; and the thorns sprung up, and choked them: But other fell into good ground, and brought forth fruit, some an hundredfold, some sixtyfold, some thirtyfold."
Think of every buried article a potential seed, sown into the minds of the scientologists. A sown seed of fact falling on the introspective mind spawns questions, doubt... bringing forth fruit for Anonymous. - inactive, on 02/02/2008, -3/+35we did too.
- nepawoods, on 02/02/2008, -13/+44"I don't like when Digg is abused to promote things frequently"
You spammed the link to this in how many other unrelated topics to get attention to this: http://digg.com/users/DiggityDugged/history/commen ...
And you don't like when Digg is abused? May your mother be raped with a rusty chain saw. - thebellmaster1x, on 02/02/2008, -7/+34Jamie Lynn Spears never ripped people from their families.
- rinote, on 02/02/2008, -2/+28Maybe you should practice what you preach and stop filing lawsuits at anyone that gives you a funny look.
- Guitarhero10, on 02/02/2008, -1/+27Really now. Even if you watched South Park you would know that Xenu was the enemy. Come on.
- dunk71, on 02/03/2008, -1/+26I'm replying here because I wanna jump the line. Sorry. I know it's bad form, but there's a load of comments here from Digg users saying they bury the Scientology stories because they're fed up with the number of stories, or because they think the whole "war on Scientology" is doomed to failure... The thing is that by burying Scientology stories you're pushing an important issue aside. You're potentially causing harm to a valid protest. Being fed up with "Digg abuse" is not an issue right now. This ***** is important. People have died. A lot more people have run themselves into so much debt that they'll never recover from it. Others have been forced to turn their backs on friends and family. If Scientology continues to go unchecked then this will happen to more and more people and those of you who are burying the Scientology stories because you're bored of them are, quite frankly, acting irresponsibly.
Don't get me wrong, I don't for a minute expect the fight against Scientology to be won through Digg, but it's a high profile, and therefore very important, source of information on the web and the spread of information is the most powerful weapon anyone has against the civil and human rights injustices that the CoS is committing, day in day out.
Please, just deal with the upset for the time being. Ignore the Scientology stories if you really don't care. But let everyone else fight for something they believe in. OK?
Sorry for hi-jacking the comment thread. - dontaskagain, on 02/02/2008, -1/+26Although i bury your comments i defend your right to say them.
- Smuikas, on 02/02/2008, -7/+32It seems like there is a large group of people here - on digg - even in america - that are incapable of following ongoing happenings in interbutts culture / affairs / world politics / local politics. They just "dig" stuff that sounds cool or newsworthy, put for their piddling and meandering comments as a burnt offering from the unwashed masses - and then complain when something comes along that sticks around for a few weeks.
It's happened with Ron Paul, Obama, and the Anon vs Scientology stuff. There are some folks who care about these issues and want to hear up to date happenings with them. There are some folks who obsessively care. And then there are people who are just looking for their next fix between daytime soaps - or whatever else they use to sop up their time with.
If you're sick of hearing about something on dig, petition for a temporary digg category for it. Otherwise, I dunno, ignore the stories with that subject in them entirely...
(I think the big issue here is that people treat digg like an infotainment teat - and think that articles which may not be about what interests them are taking up space that could be used by things that they want to pay attention to. Which, from what I can tell, doesn't seem to be the case if you bother thinking about the nature of the interbutts) - raid517, on 02/02/2008, -23/+47Seems more people are sick of you than they are of this story.
If you don't like it, move on. -
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