taylorhayward.org — I just submitted an accurate story to Digg critiquing their promotion system, and how it may be being manipulated by a small group of right-wing users. The story was up to 138 diggs in 4 hours, which would put the article on the front page without question, except, a small group of unknown users has marked the story as "lame" which buried it.
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twangoAug 2, 2006
Adults don't say "poor baby," "lame" .. they only wonder why an article with 135 diggs goes away.BTW ... who decided Digg was for adults?
tuna1Aug 2, 2006
"TerrorByte64 is right, we should censor anything we don’t want to see."Wow I hope you're being sarcastic. You can, please see the "digg" button next to each story, thats how you censor what you don't want to see - you don't digg it, thats one less vote it has to make it to the front page. Digg is about bringing democracy to the news, not censoring anything for the mass; thats why we have editors and politicans. I don't know what kind of libertarianism you subscribe to, but it seems very contradicting to its core value.
pseudotsugaAug 2, 2006
I wonder if Digg wouldn't be better if you could only Digg UP, and not Digg DOWN. That might be a better measure of what the "popular" stories were.But then again, why should I care what the "popular" stories are? Popular only means that certain people (often of different taste, expertise, experiences, and agendas than me) like something. It isn't a rating of quality, credibility, or even accuracy.Digg can't rate those things very well.
blindirishmanAug 2, 2006
I will purposely go out of my way to make sure these kinds of stories don't reach the front page.<a class="user" href="http://digg.com/users/taylorhayward">http://digg.com/users/taylorhayward</a>Invalid User Provided. I hope you got banned.
chaimrubinAug 2, 2006
I never saw so much kvetching in all my life. The Left only wants to promote free speech when it's their own speech. You know, cause, they know whats best for us. What a crock, if this is how digg works, this is how digg works. You don't like that the Right side of the Internet is using this too now also? Get make another site. Quit, like you guys always do."I Dugg this Story Before I Dugg Against It"
hawk2007Aug 2, 2006
lol, I know what you mean. actually though, I think Michelle Malkin's calling out the left wing sentiment on this site take the cake though.It's up to like 600 digs, 200 comments and isn't frontpaged anywhere. It's not even listed as a top stories this week in the Political Opinion section.
uttlesAug 4, 2006
So, it's ok for the radical leftists who have been ruling digg for the past few months to censor anything right wing, but it's not ok for right wingers to post right wing articles?Interesting sense of "fair and balanced" you moonbats have. I love how interested in freedom you are.
Closed AccountAug 5, 2006
That's because liberals aren't fair and balanced. They are arrogant, control freaks, who truly believe, it's okay for them (whatever they do), but it's not okay for anybody else.In short, elitists.