techcrunch.com — Wired Magazine seems hell bent on convincing the world that Digg is falling apart. I have a problem with that because Wired Magazine’s parent company, Condé Nast, owns Digg competitor Reddit. And because Wired isn’t just reporting Digg news - they are actively engaged in using Wired to undermine Digg.
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atomic1fireMar 2, 2007
@fkr2Its not that wired is attacking diggits the fact that its attacking digg while being owned by the same company that owns a competitorsooner or later they could start praising redditand would be under critism just like google with that whole perhaps your looking for _our product_ when searchingWired needs better discloser of any bias
atomic1fireMar 2, 2007
digg owns redditDisclaimer: this user has favoritism on diggand never reads wired unless digg is showing it for some reason
j4200Mar 2, 2007
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zoltanMar 2, 2007
digg used to be soo much better back in the 90s.. maybe it is time to cancel my subscription
namcoMar 2, 2007
Thinking it over, I guess it's not slander technically, however anything can be argued in court. Wired is painting a picture that digg is tainted, being gamed, and not democratic. It is very damaging to digg's reputation and is a concerted effort to drive users from digg to reddit. At the very least the argument could be used as leverage to get them to cease and desist. This is just not about a single BS story about paying users to digg stories, it's "I Bought Votes on Digg", "Hunting Down Digg's Bury Brigade", and the cover story on the March issue "How to Scam Digg". It's pretty clear they're out to get digg.
obkenobiMar 2, 2007
That happens when stories get buried AFAIK.It's also not someone, but groups of people. No, not the non-existent "bury brigade," but legions of fanboys, trolls, and shills. I don't think they're organized into a conspiracy, I think it's just that there's a lot of them.When you write or submit something controversial to Digg, you upset all sorts of people and they ALL gang up on you for their own reasons, not the same reason.This is why people have said in the past that Digg is just a giant popularity contest. Go against the flow and the mob will tear you to pieces.
0mgiplaywowMar 2, 2007
even bad news is news...long live digg :)
xt0ph3rMar 3, 2007
@iceperson"You must be new here. Here on digg we use whatever means necessary to silence anyone who disagrees with us..."All I have is the little red thumbs down button. I must have missed the stuff they passed out at the last meeting.
dmitriyvozJun 25, 2007
I'm not so sure about suing as some of the comments on the blog mentioned, but it sure is shady tactics. Hopefully bringing it out into the open will be enough to silence it for a while. The same theme on Russian sites: <a class="user" href="http://pivo.in.ua">http://pivo.in.ua</a> <a class="user" href="http://www.alcogol.kiev.ua">http://www.alcogol.kiev.ua</a>