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Digg.com Sets Up Its TERMS of USE & Privacy

tinyurl.co.uk — You Use Digg? Then You Need To Read The Newly Added TOS and Privacy Policy.

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  • DewayneSmith, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Well, no more calling people dip *****.
  • FogDogg, on 10/12/2007, -4/+3And why would you tinyurl it? The tiny url is longer then the page your linking to...
  • DewayneSmith, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5You can't link a Digg to Digg. Common sense.
  • samureye, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Foogdogg, you try to submit any links with digg.com, such as digg.com/spy and see what happens.

    This happens to make digg a very serious place now, no more flaming and acting like idiots, finally, people are gonna get banned a lot more now hopefully. No more repurposing information, yay! Ban them all!

  • cjsan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Good. Hopefully we will never have to endure the rath of another "Koolaidguy" again.
  • samureye, on 10/12/2007, -6/+8Never heard of "Koolaidguy". I was under the impression 98% of commenters were idiots here.
  • manfesto, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Just out of curiosity, how did you stumble upon this link?

    Oh, and Koolaidguy was a troll. There've been a few (and yes, some Digg comments are on level with trolling), but at least by requiring registration to comment, there aren't many trolls (the one real caveat of /.'s Anonymous Coward tag is the trolling community abusing it), and they tend to get modded down, reported, and banned.
  • KevinJ, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2"to submit stories or comments linking to affiliate programs, multi-level marketing schemes, sites/blogs repurposing existing stories (source hops), or off-topic content"

    HAHA NOW U N00BS CAN'T LINK TO BLOGS!!!
  • KevinJ, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1why is this not homepaged?
  • KevinJ, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0nvm


    ---KJ
  • npulido, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1diggs demise is soon.
  • seenthefuture, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3@samureye

    98%...that's 'bout right.
  • kevinrose, on 10/12/2007, -5/+27There has been a lot of discussion lately about Digg's acceptable usage policy and what terms of service/privacy rules we practice. We decided to put more direct links to help remind people about our policies, and maybe keep some of the flaming, spam and general abuse under control.
  • alevel27mage, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"Never heard of "Koolaidguy". I was under the impression 98% of commenters were idiots here."

    OMG TOS!

    "By way of example, and not as a limitation, you agree not to use the Services: 1) to abuse, harass, threaten, impersonate or intimidate other Digg users;"

    Wait, that's like half the comments :(
  • KevinJ, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I'm glad we have one b/c now there is a legimate definition of "abuse" so if a post is removed or a user is banned "the crew" can tell that person what they violated!
  • phpMonkey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2This couldn't be in response to the bloggerbusiness or PriceRightPhoto debacles. Nah.
  • seenthefuture, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0Right on Kev.
  • Lewisham, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The source hop thing is certainly interesting. People are warned about it before submission, but do it anyway. I wonder exactly who is going to police this. I fear an Invisible Hand is worse than the community mods of /.
  • KevinJ, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0@seenthefuture
    Which...?
  • whoatemydigg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Man, I never read the fine print. Too Lazy. Someone give the run down on this Alphabetical painting titled Terms of Use and Privacy.
  • Nick_Circosta, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Well we knew this would eventually come


    -Nick
  • seenthefuture, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0LOL...rose. Your comment makes sense too =D
  • NovaMonket, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Haha, no more importing music from germany. ;)
    I quoth:

    .."for any illegal or unauthorized purpose. If you are an international user, you agree to comply with all local laws regarding online conduct and acceptable content..."
  • diehard2k5, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0All I can read is.. blah blah blah, we gon' sue some suckas.
  • manfesto, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0@Lewisham

    I think it'll end up being community enforced, much as it is now - a story is crap, it gets reported - just now there's a rule behind it. A troll gets an account just to call people idiots - they get reported, the site admins disable the account. I think this is basically a formalization of everything that is going on right now, and now nobody can ever claim that they didn't know the consequences before doing something like posting a blog link or flaming and getting banned for it - but that's not to say that the site admins wouldn't be able to abuse this agreement and remove users/stories they just plain don't like. I guess it's basically a matter of trust - do we trust them to leave Digg's moderation up to the userbase?
  • saysaknow, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"I fear an Invisible Hand is worse than the community mods of /."

    I rather an unknown moderator. That way, I won't have to feel like X is a total ass hat.
  • falloutsyndrome, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0very informative :)
  • defpol, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0"#2 to contribute any Content that is infringing, libelous, defamatory, obscene, pornographic, abusive, offensive or otherwise violates any law or right of any third party;"

    obscene, pornographic, offensive... If it's news it's news! Does this mean that the WOW naked mod post needs to be removed? How about the 'Smut for Smut' post? If it offends someone it shouldn't belong here?!?! What type of commercial ***** is this? I thought that Digg was all about the freedom of expression and user control. Now who knows if I may be in violation of the TERMS of USE! WTF!
  • Mongoose, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0Nice. Was it written by kevin rose?
  • vodkamattvt, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Better safe than sorry, but I dont think this will save you from the lawsuites from that camera store. Digg has already cost them millions and they want justice!
  • Nullifidian, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I think I need to know what they mean by "intimidate other Digg users". Speaking the truth about a topic can intimidate a whole lot of people who may have their head buried in the sand because of misinformation.
  • Lord_oftheTrons, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I was gonna say, someone had fun writing that. Legal mumbo jumbo...bah everyone will just click next faster than when they installed Sony's DRM on their PCs.
  • F00b4r, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1My philosophy is ignore the rules and comment on what you want. Commenting is to supply your opinion. If it insults someone, too ***** bad. Same with the news. Remember the pornographic iPod videos? That's major news. Sure, ban everything to eighteens-and-up. It matters very little, because we all know teens will register anyway.

    If you get banned, just don't use digg anymore. These fineprint rules never actually get enforced. When they are, people get pissed off.
  • DewayneSmith, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Remember, Mr. Rose said maybe. So is this just a paper thin wall or will it be enforced?
  • cecil_t, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2"Services are available only to individuals who are at least 13 years old" - well there goes half of the user base
  • Junx, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Can anyone translate that crock of ***** into english? Legalese has to be the worst butchering of the english language, and it offends me as a fluent english-speaker.
  • cool4u2view, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Terms of use ... screw reading it, just assume that I agree.
  • sharedferret, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Well, we can be sure Alex didn't write that.
  • antiTRACE, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0This is what happens when you get investors involved... so I guess I can't call anyone a dumb-ass anymore? Will all the non-TOS prior posts be removed retroactively? So many questions, no one to answer them.
  • Bigfat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1""Services are available only to individuals who are at least 13 years old" - well there goes half of the user base"

    Thank god.

    I was getting sick and tired of Diggs about piracy and other random crap. I just hope this gets enforced.
  • KorbenDallas, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"to submit stories or comments linking to affiliate programs, multi-level marketing schemes, sites/blogs repurposing existing stories (source hops), or off-topic content"


    Wow, that was fast - http://digg.com/security/Silent_Spamming_-_Is_your_Website_Being_Abused_

  • NoOneButMe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Was bound to happen sometime - Its kinda hard for a site to get as big as Digg is without having some sort of TOS. Though the TOS seems similar to those that most sites have - i wonder how it'll affect Digg users, aside from weeding out Trolls and Flaming to a degree.

    On a side note .. "Digg" isnt in Digg's dictionary when spell-checking.
  • trogdoor, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"Can anyone translate that crock of ***** into english? Legalese has to be the worst butchering of the english language, and it offends me as a fluent english-speaker."

    I don't know why people have a problem with "legalese" everything is stated in plain and clear English honestly show me one example sentence from that that isn't understandable.
  • dbrodbeck, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Junx, what part did you not understand? Pretty clear to me. THough I watch a lot of lawyer shows.

    It all seems quite clear.
  • Ratteler, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1No more OS X86 diggs. It's against the DMCA.

    It's also going to be hard to nail the next PriceRightPhoto since the message could be pulled as libalous until a court decides one way or another. (Which or course it never will because it was pulled.)

    So who want's to help me start "Drilled". The new "Digg" with no TOS until it get's popular enough to sell to some sucker who'll put a TOS on it and ruin it to cover their ass.

    I see social bookmarking going the way of P2P. Shut one down and start a new one.
  • bonlebon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0WackyT this is for you, enjoy.
  • mark1372, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I wish there was something like "topics submitted with caps and multiple exclamation marks will have punctuation truncated to a less annoying format." ;-)

    No need for barely literate headlines like "OMG Safari 2.0.3b Developer preview RELEASED!!!!!!!!!!" – at least a couple of which hit the front page each day. I feel like I have to write something about BFF 4EVAR on my pencil case or gouge out my eyes or something.
  • KorbenDallas, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Too late

    www.drilled.com taken.
  • Tobey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Finally. I always thought it was pretty risky for a site like digg to be running without some kind of disclaimer. I wonder who wrote it? It’s pretty nice. It wasn’t written by a lawyer, that’s for sure. But it’s still nice.
  • timdorr, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0Is there any reason you're using tinyurl.co.uk?

    The frigging tinyurl is larger than the URL itself!
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