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- evillawngnome, on 07/14/2008, -3/+184I think he's owed a little more of an explanation than the standard boilerplate.
Also, i'm offended that the Digg support staff would seriously suggest anyone use the search feature - Digg may as well refer to this as the haystack generator. - inactive, on 07/14/2008, -5/+154This indicates a flaw in the system because genuinely deserving stories that will collect diggs very quickly, by their very nature, can be buried by Digg moderators for gaming the system.
- sega01, on 07/14/2008, -0/+112Original buried submission: http://digg.com/hardware/Is_a_486_capable_of_withs ...
486 itself: http://foureightysix.go-beyond.org/
Original blog post for the 486: http://diyist.blogspot.com/2008/06/slashdot-capabl ...
Thank you for all of the diggs; Digg really needs to do something about this. If there is no useful feedback from Digg I may try setting up a site dedicated to the buried submissions (with an RSS/ATOM feed and such). - nelsonjs, on 07/14/2008, -2/+67Hilarious, and yes, Digg is still broken.
- bittermang, on 07/14/2008, -0/+37Excuse me while I go file a patent for a haystack generator. BRB.
- greenvortex, on 07/14/2008, -2/+37I doubt it was buried, either. The original Digg article was completely innocuous and kinda fun.
- inactive, on 07/14/2008, -0/+30:) Lots of Digg users game the system and it`s not that hard after all, you just need quite a few friends that will forward your story to some other hundreds the chances your story will hit the homepage are dramatically high. The question is .. Does that story really deserve to be on Digg`s Homepage?
- BurningSand, on 07/14/2008, -2/+31I am new to Digg, but it sure seems to me like it's a 'who you know' situation...
- sublimemm, on 07/14/2008, -0/+28thank god for
"site:digg.com" - ps3udov3ctor, on 07/14/2008, -0/+28hey at least he tried something original, took the time to execute it, and wrote it up very nicely. I'd like to see you do that instead of complaining about it on the comments page!
- aywwts4, on 07/14/2008, -0/+23It was buried, if you search for it you have to check the "Include Buried" option just to see it. http://digg.com/search?s=486+withstanding&submit=S ...
Which is another thing that really annoys me, it seems like after almost any article is popular, it eventually ends up buried. even random things which are in no way controversial, I search for it and its like the stories never existed, until I check the include buried option. Any statistics on how many stories eventually end up burried, even after a long and successful frontpage? - Janv1er, on 07/14/2008, -0/+22Digg should have a 'buried' section.
- ngmcs8203, on 07/14/2008, -2/+22Digg is getting beat by Goatse?
goatse.cx
6666 (9.87%)
digg.com
6575 (9.7%) - netwookiee, on 07/14/2008, -0/+20You need to test it on TWIT Live as well. That seems to be the latest place to test web server durability. If you can get Leo to mention it on TWIT Live, you will have about a thousand hits within seconds.
- paulot, on 07/14/2008, -2/+21Digg's algorithm is no more than editors manually suppressing stories just like this. Powered by the people, approved by the overlords.
- legendxx, on 07/14/2008, -3/+20Some guy hosted a site from his palm device a few years back when digg was still cool. So no, this doesn't even come close.
- borez, on 07/14/2008, -0/+17I was disappointed when Terans story never made the front page, I watched it climb Digg and then fall at the last hurdle. It so would have made for a great story. And FTR if I was involved in Digg I would have chucked it on the front page just to see if the 486 could have been brought down. Such a shame eh.
- lalindsey, on 07/14/2008, -0/+14Don't you think it's kinda wrong to bury stories just because of technical glitches? The fact that the server can't handle the digg shouldn't kill it's chances of being seen especially if it is quality content. Yes you can't tell that if it's quality if the server is down, but why not just let it be for when the issue is resolved and then digg/bury based on the actual content and NOT unrelated issues.
- louiebaur, on 07/14/2008, -1/+15yea digg is still broken
- Vulcan, on 07/14/2008, -0/+13Or there's a firewall/NAT device splitting out incoming connections to one or more boxes behind it.
- sega01, on 07/14/2008, -0/+12You scanned my IPv4 address. I have three servers separate from the 486 on that IP via NAT (technically, the 486 is only on IPv6 and my main go-beyond.org server proxies the requests though). Try getting on IPv6 and scanning foureightysix.go-beyond.org :-).
- goldsaturn, on 07/14/2008, -9/+20From the Article:
"While the 486 has proven its capability, I still would like to see it receive a total of at least 250,000 hits. Once it hits 250,000 hits or I receive $1,000 in donations, I will release the source code to the webapp itself (it is good example code for WebLua."
All my botnet will have to do is sneeze at it and source code for everybody! - nicc, on 07/14/2008, -0/+10imo, getting rid of friends and shouts will severely diminish the amount of gaming on Digg.
- Tyrghast, on 07/14/2008, -6/+16I still see Mrbabyman on the front page, so yes, Digg is borked.
- inactive, on 07/14/2008, -0/+10I think it does... It reminds me of that old Apple or what not some guy had and let it get slashdotted, I don't remember the hardware but it was much much less than a 486, I like seeing stuff like that and I'm sure a few others do too. I have fond memories of a 486 as being my first personal computer :)
- SteveMax, on 07/14/2008, -0/+9This sounds specially wrong when it's an article about the effects of Digg on a 486. You'd expect the 486 not to be able to cope 100% with being dugg, but that doesn't make the experience any less interesting.
- revjustin2, on 07/14/2008, -1/+9Amen. I hate those features. I am getting sick of social media being shoved down my throat as if it some kind of internet savior. It has it's place, but on sites like Digg. The content should stand on it's own merits, not on the campaigns of some people with a lot of spare time OR, even worse, "social media consultants"/PR people.
- rolosworld, on 07/14/2008, -5/+13nmap -O foureightysix.go-beyond.org
PORT STATE SERVICE
21/tcp open ftp
22/tcp open ssh
25/tcp open smtp
80/tcp open http
110/tcp open pop3
135/tcp filtered msrpc
137/tcp filtered netbios-ns
138/tcp filtered netbios-dgm
139/tcp filtered netbios-ssn
445/tcp filtered microsoft-ds
593/tcp filtered http-rpc-epmap
631/tcp open ipp
873/tcp open rsync
1080/tcp filtered socks
Aggressive OS guesses: Linux 2.6.20 (Ubuntu 7.04 server, x86) (85%)
ubuntu? services sharing 16MB Ram? I smell fake... - rolosworld, on 07/14/2008, -0/+7ok, thanks for the clarification. I thought it was not accessible even on IPv6. (just locally on your side)
I don't have access to IPv6, so I would have to faithfully believe. - rolosworld, on 07/14/2008, -0/+7found this:
"To connect with the rest of the world, my go-beyond.org server proxies IPv4 requests over IPv6 to the 486."
still, I see this too much convenient... why IPv6 for this? - SteveMTyler, on 07/14/2008, -14/+21I bury stories if I get a server-time out or CPU quota exceeded. I bury if it is spam.
- otbeverly, on 07/14/2008, -0/+7We have a winner!
- lalindsey, on 07/14/2008, -0/+7Too bad they can't get rid of ***** commenting... yet.
- KlogereEndGrim, on 07/14/2008, -0/+7I Buried you because this is not *chan/anonymous.
- Wang, on 07/14/2008, -0/+6The number of diggs that this article has alone proves that people are interested in this story.
- paradigm1220, on 07/14/2008, -2/+8I'm not totally up to date on these things like power users and the almighty Digg algorithm. I could only stand the constant whining for so long until I started tuning it out. I'm here for the articles, I could care less who submits them, it's not like they're the authors of the articles. I find it astonishing that people are still bitching about "gaming the system" and mods burying articles they deem unworthy.
Please, Digg, do something about this so we can move on past this constant whining! - ShaggyRogers, on 07/14/2008, -0/+6That's not consistent with being #1 in hardware. Something else must have been up.
- rolosworld, on 07/14/2008, -1/+7maybe...
but then, why hide it behind a firewall if he wants people to SEE the 486 is the one responding?
protecting it from a digg DoS? wasn't this what he wanted to test? - Hortnon, on 07/14/2008, -4/+10Why is he being buried? He's right. Why can't there be reasonable opinion on comments pages, why must it all be 'THIS IS AN INJUSTICE OMGOMG DIGG IS BROKEN REDDIT IS BETTER' or something simliar?
Anyway, the story is old, it only got a couple hundred Diggs in that time, and you have no way to track how many times it got buried.
My favorite part is the thing at the end, where he basically puts a ransom on him releasing his code of 250k hits or $1k in donations. I'm burying as spam based on that alone. - rameznabel, on 07/14/2008, -1/+7put some hot pic in the page and your 486 will burn
- wiretapped, on 07/14/2008, -2/+8This "Bush gives Isreal the OK to bomb Iran" http://digg.com/world_news/Bush_gives_Isreal_the_O ... disappeared from the "hot topics" on the front page yesterday too quickly I felt as well.
- inactive, on 07/14/2008, -0/+5He's getting a lot of traffic from Digg. I refresh the page every second and the Digg hit counter keeps going up!!!
- inactive, on 07/14/2008, -0/+5Your original idea is not an original idea.
" Soon, reported stories will fall into a 'buried stories' bin. Users will have the ability to pick through this story bin and vote to have a story reinstated should they believe it was falsely reported."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digg - rolosworld, on 07/14/2008, -0/+5sega01 replied its accessible on IPv6... read above thread!
- sega01, on 07/14/2008, -2/+7Read the blog post covering the build of the 486: http://diyist.blogspot.com/2008/06/slashdot-capabl ...
The page is completely dynamic (scripted in Lua) and logs the hit count and hits-by-referer itself (no external logging system). I am asking for donations because my only "job" is free software/open source; I develop two different Linux distributions (Zenserver and Icadyptes), and need to pay for a good VPS host because frankly, my 512Kbit upload isn't enough for a good package repository. In order to continue my work on open source I need to be able to maintain my network and occasionally purchase new hardware; I have virtually no external income.
But yes, my room could use a little cleaning. - bjornski, on 07/14/2008, -0/+5So we'll be seeing a lot of dupes from the "buried" section?
- CMonkeyX, on 07/14/2008, -8/+12I just finished reading the post and it sounds like a load of crap to me. His "proof" seems to be that some people posted positive comments, and he assumes that only a few people buried his story. Well personally I would have buried this too, and when I bury something I rarely post a comment because they have already wasted my time reading it.
For all he knows he had 500 diggs, and 500 buries. Just because his friends posted some comments does not mean it was supported by the community.
This was not a story. It was guy pulling old parts out of his garage to try and make the front page of digg.
I think the biggest problem with digg right now is the amount of crap that gets posted (like this) and dugg to the front page. It used to be that interesting "News" made it to the front page. - inactive, on 07/14/2008, -0/+4digg is rigged.
- kuwan, on 07/14/2008, -0/+4The actual site itself also appears to be from the early 90s.
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