themulife.com— Top digger "3Monkeys" user account has been unexplicably deleted from digg. Digg hasn't offered up any reason for the deletion.
Nov 28, 2006View in Crawl 4
Form Gregd :"Seriously, would you guys be so quick to yell who cares if they deleted the userid "kevinrose"?"I'm sorry Greg, but my answer would be a big and sound "yes". I do give you the benefit about the sweat and tears that one user put into his account and his ranking. But to MANY people on Digg, it's just not that important. You are ranked in the top 20, you obviously care about your ranking. That does not mean the majority agree with you on the importance of our username. If Digg suddenly locked my account tomorrow, I will come back as another username and move along. But if Digg ban my IP from accessing the site or from registering again, I will make hell. Or at least ATTEMP to make hell, which obviously wouldn't happen since I'm such a low Digger. I just don't care about my account as long as I can access the site.I'm pretty sure people UNDERSTAND your point. They just don't agree on the IMPORTANCE of it.
Oops. Edit too late, thus reposted.In the same vein...Note to Kevin /et al/: don't drink beer *before* banning the glue that makes up the foundation of this community... with all due respect, I am utterly disappointed with your decision, which I hope you'll reverse.That former part was of course sarcastic.Best wishes,Roy
I just noticed that webtickle and schestowitz just changed their Digg image to 3monkeys. Good Idea! I would like to see all the top digg users to that.
"Digg moderators don't look highly upon front-page stories that are critical of Digg."This is worthless crap, and the Digg mods are right in getting rid of it."But news is news..."This is not news, this is bulls**t drama."The fact that this completely legitimate criticism of Digg got buried shows the unwillingness of Digg and its users to be open to the possibility that their system is not perfect."But this still isn't news. Thats why there's a feeback function. If you don't believe me, email here: feedback@digg.comOh and by the way, welcome to democracy.
Charbarred I am fully aware of how stories actually get onto Digg but what you are missing in my comment is that is this really a story? It's actually drama and whinning and he said and she said. Meaning, how does this truly matter to someone who wants to read content instead of comment chatter on the front page? "s**tLOADS of time and effort so that assh**es like you can come here and bitch." So I am to hold up the flame of power to people who spends craploads of time on here just for my enjoyment? I think not and ecspecially if I am not being paid to do so. I am truly glad of people like 3Monkeys but to create a story out of possibly nothing could do more harm than good to sites like these. Trust me, they will leave in droves whenever they find something without this sort of banter. I wish to preserve Digg...do you?
@Scott2If this story was about a netscape account or another site it would be news, s**t it would be frontpage like most of them, why not digg? Because it is on Digg? Demoncracy my ass
heretushiNov 28, 2006
@ dmseanNo. Why should I be?I'm ranked deep down in the late 27000 and I frankly couldn't care less.
heretushiNov 28, 2006
Form Gregd :"Seriously, would you guys be so quick to yell who cares if they deleted the userid "kevinrose"?"I'm sorry Greg, but my answer would be a big and sound "yes". I do give you the benefit about the sweat and tears that one user put into his account and his ranking. But to MANY people on Digg, it's just not that important. You are ranked in the top 20, you obviously care about your ranking. That does not mean the majority agree with you on the importance of our username. If Digg suddenly locked my account tomorrow, I will come back as another username and move along. But if Digg ban my IP from accessing the site or from registering again, I will make hell. Or at least ATTEMP to make hell, which obviously wouldn't happen since I'm such a low Digger. I just don't care about my account as long as I can access the site.I'm pretty sure people UNDERSTAND your point. They just don't agree on the IMPORTANCE of it.
schestowitzNov 28, 2006
Oops. Edit too late, thus reposted.In the same vein...Note to Kevin /et al/: don't drink beer *before* banning the glue that makes up the foundation of this community... with all due respect, I am utterly disappointed with your decision, which I hope you'll reverse.That former part was of course sarcastic.Best wishes,Roy
jasnmbNov 28, 2006
I just noticed that webtickle and schestowitz just changed their Digg image to 3monkeys. Good Idea! I would like to see all the top digg users to that.
scott2Nov 28, 2006
w00t!
scott2Nov 28, 2006
"Digg moderators don't look highly upon front-page stories that are critical of Digg."This is worthless crap, and the Digg mods are right in getting rid of it."But news is news..."This is not news, this is bulls**t drama."The fact that this completely legitimate criticism of Digg got buried shows the unwillingness of Digg and its users to be open to the possibility that their system is not perfect."But this still isn't news. Thats why there's a feeback function. If you don't believe me, email here: feedback@digg.comOh and by the way, welcome to democracy.
Closed AccountNov 28, 2006
Charbarred I am fully aware of how stories actually get onto Digg but what you are missing in my comment is that is this really a story? It's actually drama and whinning and he said and she said. Meaning, how does this truly matter to someone who wants to read content instead of comment chatter on the front page? "s**tLOADS of time and effort so that assh**es like you can come here and bitch." So I am to hold up the flame of power to people who spends craploads of time on here just for my enjoyment? I think not and ecspecially if I am not being paid to do so. I am truly glad of people like 3Monkeys but to create a story out of possibly nothing could do more harm than good to sites like these. Trust me, they will leave in droves whenever they find something without this sort of banter. I wish to preserve Digg...do you?
Closed AccountNov 29, 2006
And so the saga is resolved:<a class="user" href="http://digg.com/tech_news/The_3monkeys_Saga_Resolved">http://digg.com/tech_news/The_3monkeys_Saga_Resolved</a>
phoolNov 30, 2006
@Scott2If this story was about a netscape account or another site it would be news, s**t it would be frontpage like most of them, why not digg? Because it is on Digg? Demoncracy my ass