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- reddevild, on 10/22/2008, -17/+911articles whining about digg
- NeoNcP, on 10/22/2008, -25/+448I like cracked lists
- madeingermany, on 10/22/2008, -10/+3088. Articles about Diggers digging stuff on Digg being dugg by Diggers that don't digg that stuff
- borez, on 10/22/2008, -14/+180We all like cracked lists
- sphykik, on 10/22/2008, -4/+143You know what I hate???
***** SERVERS!! - Grova, on 10/22/2008, -5/+133Watching a video and then putting a direct quote from the exact same video in the comments section of said video shouldn’t really be rewarded with diggs.
Oh wait.... - OC73, on 10/22/2008, -28/+144Huffington Post garbage.
- 10goto10, on 10/22/2008, -2/+82Right now I'm hating constantly logging in the most about Digg.
- Homerr, on 10/22/2008, -1/+79Servers that get owned by Digg.....ahem, thinkbasis.com.
- FlareHeart, on 10/22/2008, -3/+78Ya...the minds of the silent diggers is never understandable because they digg but never say why. So therefore we have inexplicable stories reaching the front page.
- AlaskaLoneWolf, on 10/22/2008, -16/+83...dugg for the Rick-rolls.
- Lungkisser, on 10/22/2008, -0/+61Top 7 lists?
- plainOldFool, on 10/22/2008, -9/+67I like turtles
- twiztidsinz, on 10/22/2008, -2/+54Why? Are you lonely in there?
- kpsfire, on 10/22/2008, -3/+54People whining about articles whining about Digg.
- borez, on 10/22/2008, -7/+56IMO add: anything to do with cats, the Daily mail and that ***** stupid " Hate by numbers " deserves a mention.
+ squishee, you yourself seem to be getting an awful lot of stuff on the front page of Digg considering you have only ever submitted 60 stories... why is that? - adriaaan, on 10/22/2008, -2/+498. Websites on badly configured or underpowered servers.
- barryiggins, on 10/22/2008, -1/+46I hate everything. that is my job on the internet
- iFrikkenR, on 10/22/2008, -0/+44use http://digg.com rather than www.digg.com. it still happens but less frequently
whats annoying as ***** is opening 20 tabs and then finding you're not logged in to any of them - KragTheDigger, on 10/22/2008, -2/+46A role playing game about batman vs Obama that you can play on an iPhone would be cool though.
- BotaXero, on 10/22/2008, -0/+429. Slow servers.
- mnemy, on 10/22/2008, -0/+40Links that fail when they hit the front page, and no one posts a mirror, or in this case, cuts and pastes the article.
- mayra1201, on 10/22/2008, -6/+45I kind of expected this to be submitted by Mr Baby Man.
- FlyingPhotog, on 10/22/2008, -10/+47Articles about role playing games, Obama, Legos, Batman, iPhone or any combination there of.
- spdorsey, on 10/22/2008, -8/+42I like Cracked and I like Web Comics. The others are hit and miss.
Stupid article, IMHO. - Atsumori, on 10/22/2008, -1/+35As someone who spends an unhealthy amount of the workday on Digg there are a few mind-boggling trends I’ve noticed. Certain stories seem to pretty much guarantee several comments that are nothing more than variations on “Really? That made the front page?” but they still seem to get consistently dugg up by a large number of people.
Slideshows
It is unlikely at this point that anyone could click through to an AskMen or Forbes.com list without knowing they’re about to endure another painful eye-raping in the name of page views. But still, these one sentence per page lists seem to perform reasonably well, despite a comments section riddled with complaints and an almost guaranteed 100+ diggs to the first person willing to copy the list over in a simple, easy to read format. For other offenders see EW and Maxim.
Huffington Post
For the past several months Digg’s 2008 U.S. Elections category has been redirecting people straight to the Huffington Post. Despite a fair amount of backlash in threads like this and this the Huffington Post has continued its total dominance of all things political.
Web Comics
There’s about a 50 percent chance that any given XKCD comic will have several comments whining about how it seemingly rockets to the front page no matter what, an inevitable link to http://www.*****.com/ and a few people simply stating “not funny.” However, there’s an almost equal chance that any other web comic that finds its way to the front page will end up getting called out for being “a cheap knockoff of XKCD.” So, if you want to make the front page, but also get people to tell you how much you suck, make a web comic.
Cracked Lists
Cracked.com is pretty much the Huffington Post of comedy, assuming the Huffington Post’s shameless stealing of NBC’s content doesn’t already qualify it for the title.
Although at least some of their lists can miraculously fit on one page, it seems like the bulk of them are just too funny to be contained on anything less than two. Either way, Cracked gets nearly a list a day on the front page even though a fair amount of them are met with intense, well thought out criticism like the following “That was dumb.”
Mr. BabyMan
This one probably ties in with the a larger category of duplicate submissions, since stealing submissions seems to be treated like the crime to end all crimes. But despite this, Mr. BabyMan continues to drive through a puddle and splash mud all over the weak submissions of us common-folk on his way straight to the home page. However, for the amount of rancor this guy has to put up with I’d say he’s allowed a free pass on stealing whatever the hell he wants. Now would you mind submitting something for me Mr. BabyMan?
Verbatim Comments
Watching a video and then putting a direct quote from the exact same video in the comments section of said video shouldn’t really be rewarded with diggs. And usually you can count on someone to point out that this is a pretty lame thing to do. However, almost without fail, this comment will be given a noteworthy amount of diggs, despite the fact that it contributed pretty much nothing more than some instant nostalgia. For examples see almost every Zero Punctuation review ever.
Rick Rolls
Actually…diggers love Rick Rolls more than they love Ron Paul giving the finger to the RIAA while downloading music onto a Mac. - Greyscale88, on 10/22/2008, -0/+30You forgot that the game has to be in Lego form.
- cadrass, on 10/22/2008, -20/+488. Articles about Obama.
- derflan, on 10/22/2008, -0/+26Articles that die after being popular for 4 minutes
- brandita, on 10/22/2008, -6/+32Really? That made the front page?
- guabancex, on 10/22/2008, -3/+28We all saw what you did there.
- tmslak, on 10/22/2008, -4/+28Or maybe we digg because we think it's a story that deserves some attention, but don't want to waste our time trying to convince you not to be a little bitch.
- DaviDTC, on 10/22/2008, -10/+34All buried as spam. http://img206.imageshack.us/img206/638/huffingtons ...
- MikeMitchell, on 10/22/2008, -3/+26Is "Top ## Lists" on there? Cause I hate those.
- Soofi, on 10/22/2008, -1/+22"As someone who spends an unhealthy amount of the workday on Digg"
My name is Soofi and I am a diggaholic. - kenyan, on 10/22/2008, -1/+21Articles on websites with geriatric servers?
- str1fe, on 10/22/2008, -5/+25Dugg for turtles
- AlanFang, on 10/22/2008, -14/+33Add to that list Huffington Post and all the political propaganda that gets posted here. And that's coming from an Obama supporter.
- InuX, on 10/22/2008, -0/+19How about those articles that always show up when a new product comes out. You know what I'm talking about "Why X product will suck", "Top 5 reasons X product will fail", Top 5 reasons X product will be successful","Why X product won't kill Y product" etc.
- MasterJ26, on 10/22/2008, -2/+21People whining about other people whining about articles whining about Digg.
- TheDHC, on 10/22/2008, -0/+18you lost me at "anything from the onion"
- danj321, on 10/23/2008, -1/+19People whining about other people whining about other people whining about... errr I forgot what I was going to say.
- Eric1285, on 10/22/2008, -3/+21HuffPo is already on there, thank goodness.
- benologist, on 10/22/2008, -3/+19They digg because they're exchanging diggs with the submitter. That's why the same ***** gets on the front page every day and even multiple versions of the same story at once.
- geneusutwerk, on 10/22/2008, -0/+16How about people commenting on an article without actually reading the article?
- maddypaul, on 10/22/2008, -1/+16things like this.
- Jektal, on 10/22/2008, -5/+20And I'm digging it and you for the sweet irony
- slvrbullet87, on 10/22/2008, -1/+16when the hell do you see anything anti obama on the front page?
- inactive, on 10/22/2008, -9/+24If Obama loses I am giving Digg only 2 weeks to complain and bitch about how the election was rigged and how the end of the world is near. After that you all better stop your whining. If Obama does win, then ok good, shut the hell up and enjoy your victory.
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