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A cool experiment - You Are Beautiful
you-are-beautiful.com — "One early Sunday morning, we arrived at our predesignated fence. With a box of cups, and a thermos full of coffee, we set to work." These guys place a message on the fence using cups, I found it interesting how the original message "You Are Beautiful" changed over time.
heatus- 985 diggs
- digg it
- schwit, on 10/12/2007, -12/+2If a story is not technology related it doesn't belong on Digg.
That's new story guideline number 1:
http://digg.com/submit - Niao, on 10/12/2007, -3/+16>>If a story is not technology related it doesn't belong on Digg.
This is a social/social engineering experiment.
Trust me. This belongs on Digg. - jasonhazel, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1i rate all of schwit's comments as spam.
- acontorer, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I think actually this belongs in the "design" category. In any event, it's just lovely!
- jaspinDroid, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0You are loved!
- coolcoolglasses, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Nice, social engineering is cool
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http://plueballs.libsyn.com - spooksie, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0very good, nice viral, Niao is an idiot.
- clevershark, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0No swear words or crudely drawn pictures of private parts? I'm impressed.
- JackDoyle, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1http://www.you-are-beautiful.com/INSTALLATIONS/cupfence95.html
Spelled wrong, of course... - Clickerness, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Awesome. It's cool to see experiments about the nature of people.
- firebird2110, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0>>If a story is not technology related it doesn't belong on Digg.
I got the exact same rubbish on a science story because it was ... well, a science story, in the science catagory no less. Idiot. - Jalada, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0That is really awesome. I definitely digg
- quietstilldead, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Was this one in Chicago? I remember something like this about 2 years ago. I had to pass it every day and after about a week it was pretty annoying. Someone also has put little "you are beautiful" stickers all over chicago and those are also annoying.
- gnuvince, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Here's a question: why do people feel the need to deface the nice message (You are beautiful) and replace it with insults?
- cusoman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Very good stuff, diggin it... though now I have that strupid Christina Agulera song in my head - thanks a lot! >:|
- heatus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0says they are based in Chicago on the site :P
- Kiltak, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0haha isn't there a song with that title?
- Llan, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2>>>>If a story is not technology related it doesn't belong on Digg.
>>This is a social/social engineering experiment.
>>Trust me. This belongs on Digg.
If it belongs here is only determined by the fact if people like it. Nothing else matters. I was just going to post : "Let the this-is-no-tech trolls posting begin", but as usual, the trolls were faster. What a pity. Thanks for the SPAM rating.
To the project, I really like it. It is so nice to see when a rather simple idea is executed. Thanks to the internet, you are also able to let more than your grandma know about it. We love you, Internet :) - jonathanex, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Very nice site, nice idea.
- quietstilldead, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"says they are based in Chicago on the site :P"
Yeah, but there is stuff from other cities on the site as well. - MasteRR, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"Here's a question: why do people feel the need to deface the nice message (You are beautiful) and replace it with insults?"
I'm sure it was some kid who was amusing himself and/or friends.
Although it could have been another person doing another social experiment. How cool would that be. - kdehead, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0very cool. digg+
- rompom7, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0nothing to do with social engineering as some people have suggested.
cool none the less. - tsmori, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I always gotta digg anything people say doesn't belong on Digg. You're not the boss of Digg.
- FooledByRamen, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0a truly beautiful movement...
- MasteRR, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"nothing to do with social engineering as some people have suggested."
Social expirement, not social engineering. - misterpony, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0ditto tsmori
- djhifisi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1A bit old but very cool. Definetely a digg. I would rather see ten of these stories than one X-Box re-hash.
- brhad56, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2So you're the God damn kids that keep sticking cups in my fence!
- ViceVirtue, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0That's beautiful :D I'm glad this is on Digg - anyone who says it doesnt belong is a filthy communist
- sabarsky, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0awesome. a bit of beauty in such a cynical world.
- thotpoizn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0 This was interesting, definitely dugg it. I think it might be interesting to see a follow up on this idea - maybe a large digital display made open to the public, your message to be shown to any and all passers-by (at least until the next message writer comes by and replaces yours).
- interiot, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It's like wikis, but without the historical diffs that you can easily revert to in cases of vandalism.
- crapiolio, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0Interestin, but NOT Digg News!
- jwcorder, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Although it's cool, it's not an experiment because they messed with it. They changed it three or four times. It's cool, but they should have left it alone to call it an experiment. That's like saying the mouse couldn't find the cheese so I just moved the cheese so he could find it.
- pheadrus, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0This is *****
- h4lofourt33n, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Very cool. But last time I checked, Digg is a "social" bookmarking site. This is a "social" experiment, so let it go. If you keep acting this serious, you'll never get out alive.
- dotuplink, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0this is cool and all but not digg material
- VinCenT13, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I liked this a lot. I really enjoyed the last message, it gave me hope. Dugg like a hole.
- weareglass, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Maybe not tech, but it does have a lot of characteristics of web 2.0, doesn't it? No walled gardens, user-created content...Fence 2.0?
- leonbev, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Bah... This has nothing to do with either AJAX OR Apple. No Digg!
- el_jefe, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0I always gotta digg anything people say doesn't belong on Digg. You're not the boss of Digg.
posted by tsmori (0) at 07:16 AM 12/22/05
Well that definitely explains why a lot of crap gets promoted to the front page and highlights the very need for some level of moderation. People digg just to piss people off, or for some other lame reason. Not because the story interests them. So inherently the digg principle in the belief people will digg stories that interest them is flawed, thus making the number of diggs a story gets irrelevant. I venture to guess that 40-60% of the diggs are actually because someone likes the story. - ssaha, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0What?? No AJAX used for this experiment? or Mac or Google or AOL or M$? (+Digg just for that fact... other than the neat experiment)
;o) - artur.ventura, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0It's not an experiment, is an installation witch is a form of art
- edmicman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0how is it a social experiment if they keep changing it after others change it? shouldn't they have just let it be to see where it went as people interacted with it? whats the point if they kept changing it back to something?
- strangeman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1here's a mirror:
http://www.you-are-beautiful.com.nyud.net:8090/INSTALLATIONS/cupfence1.html - ramd3z, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0These people clearly never saw me... I'm 'dead sexy'
- diggdeeznutz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Bah humbug....no digg!
- sundancekid503, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I think it's beautiful...
- MrMysterious, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I think that this would be fun to do.
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