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- fxu1989, on 05/17/2008, -132/+1229You have an option to bury articles.
If you don't like it, bury it. Easy as that.
"He's submitting duplicates" ... from reddit ? ... Some of us don't go to reddit, pick one and stay with it.
....from old articles ? ... boohoo, some people might not have seen them.... just bury it and go on with your life. Stop being such a bunch of whiny little babies.
And here I thought myspace/facebook was full of drama.
I'll probably get buried cus diggsters don't like it when you go against the popular voice. - rabidg00se, on 05/17/2008, -553/+1532"If this is how the majority of the Digg community feels, I'll quit."
Oh, it is. - Rowan187, on 05/17/2008, -210/+1024This is really too far... It does suck that his stuff easily hits the front page, but the man has earned it. He's dedicated most of his free time to Digg, and he jokes about it on his YouTube page and such. Give the man a break. InB4 dugg down.
- Ridgeliner7, on 05/17/2008, -99/+885I have no idea if MrBabyMan games the system like some I have read about, or is merely very good at networking and getting others to digg his submissions. Nor do I care. I do care about mean-spirited people constantly posting hate and venom, however.
This is supposed to be fun, people. F-U-N. Remember that? Do you know what enjoying a pastime is about? For someone to leave because of what others say here, or anywhere, is nutty. For people here to be so jealous or envious of someone getting more popular submissions than they do, to actually want to drive someone away, smacks of arrested development or the antics of a potentially sociopath adolescent. Cyberbullies, the tide is turning on you. Take that to the bank. - balloonenstein, on 05/17/2008, -510/+1144Digg this if you want MrBabyMan to quit.
- bicyclethief, on 05/17/2008, -24/+574Found a pic of MrBabyMan: http://www.picturebookmarking.com/galleries/upload ...
- clesch, on 05/17/2008, -41/+432Who gives a *****?
- AManWithNoName, on 05/17/2008, -53/+352This is ridiculous. If you don't like MrBabyMan, just block him and get on with your ***** non-life. There's no reason blocking him won't be good enough, he's not like some spammer who'll come back in a new account just to ***** with people...If you block him, you'll never see another post from him, and your life goes on, and so does everyone else's. Asking him to quit is pointless, rude, and just immature. May I remind you there is a human being on the other side of that computer that MrBabyMan uses?
- db0255, on 05/17/2008, -13/+302Here's a real solution:
Make all submissions anonymous until they hit the front page. Then it won't matter. I bet you will see that MrBabyMan's articles are much less apparent on the front page. Jealousy or not, I think badjoke is right when he says that MBM is defeating the system. - imacoder, on 05/17/2008, -84/+340Others will rise up and fill that role with diverse content without the individual bias.
- Ocelot13, on 05/17/2008, -65/+280so, let me get this right, in every mrbabymen submission, the comments are full of people saying how much they dislike mrbabyman... but now that he said he may leave, everyone is acting like he was their best friend?
gotta love the digg community. - Zipko, on 05/17/2008, -7/+209I only hate MrBabyMan because he killed my parents. Not sure what everyone else's problem is.
***** You MrBabyMan, I will have my revenge! - thatsmyaibo, on 05/17/2008, -3/+192I have no problems with MrBabyMan but I do have a problem with the digg system. If this site truly awarded the best content then it would block the user's name. Instead it is the people that get dugg up rather than the content. It is nothing more than a popularity contest.
- shadus, on 05/17/2008, -18/+202I don't know who MrBabyMan is... and I really don't care. I digg what I like and I bury what I don't like. Seems like if more people on digg did that there wouldn't be as many issues. Does it even matter if one person gets on the frontpage a lot? no.
- DigiDave, on 05/17/2008, -38/+216People are angry in general and they are manifesting their anger onto MrBabyMan.
As I see it - MrBabyMan hasn't done anything wrong. He is very active on digg - so people recognize the name. If they haven't interacted with him personally, then he is just a name and it's easy to forget that there is a real person with a life, a job and a family. As such - it's very easy to project your angers on an avatar.
For those who think that MrBabyMan is the root of all their Digg-woes. Take a moment to think long and hard about what is really pissing you off. Is it REALLY MrBabyMany? - Ocelot13, on 05/17/2008, -17/+187the problem is... his stories always hit front page. no matter the subject matter or how lame or awesome they are. where as though, if a lesser person, like myself, had submitted the same story, no one would care. but if mrbabyman comes along and submits the same thing after you, it hits front page.
- inactive, on 05/17/2008, -18/+165Weird that he even gives a flying f--k what you people think.
- shondell, on 05/17/2008, -53/+199This is a social networking site run by the users. Who the ***** are you diggers to say who can quit and who can stay? Let him be.
Mr. Babyman do whatever the ***** you want. If you want to give in to some diggers who bitch and moan because your stories always get popular but theirs dont, then go ahead and quit. Otherwise keep doing whatever the hell you want to do. - Lane, on 05/17/2008, -34/+179What a man chooses to do with his free time should be left up to him, if you don't like it too bad. He isn't digging his own stories with 10,000 accounts or spamming, it's all stuff people who share his interests are digging. block him if you want and be done with it but don't bitch to the rest of us. not everyone has time to go through every single social news site and if one place has the best from the rest filtered to the tops lets be glad it's digg.
- Burento, on 05/17/2008, -35/+173These submissions, comments, and attitude just further solidify the common belief that Digg users are stupid.
Most communities reward and honor their active members... Digg has to be the only place ever that would bash them. Fricking amazing.
You guys are all watching the wrong people.. MrBabyMan, like most of us, use Digg for fun.
It is not our fault you suck at figuring out how social communities work. - oboy, on 05/17/2008, -39/+168MrBabyMan does not spam, yet I see spammers posting terrible "content" and complaining about him in comments.
The content is what's important for Digg to be successful now and in the future. MrBabyMan submits great content.
Many users do not care about Digg and its future. MrBabyMan does.
Keep MrBabyMan. The haters and spammers are the ones who need to leave. - chkdg8, on 05/17/2008, -21/+132Can someone post a 'Noob' version of what's going on?
- TomTruelle, on 05/17/2008, -76/+183I really dont see why everyone hates him so much. His stories get dugg, whats the problem?
(honest question... I may be missing something here...) - isntreal, on 05/17/2008, -16/+116Wooo welcome back to highschool guys!
- MCA2142, on 05/17/2008, -16/+113Twitter, is there anything you can't do?
- Derelict267, on 05/17/2008, -84/+167Oh come on guys quick picking on Mrbabyman. You guys just hate on him and hurt his feelings because he gets to the front page a lot. Poor guy, I feel sorry for him...digg me down then.
- badjoke, on 05/17/2008, -8/+89@AManWithNoName
The trouble is that the site is supposed to be filtered by the users. It's a democratic site. When he can submit anything and his army diggs it up the frontpage because they want to be one of his "chosen people" it defeats the purpose and ruins our sytem. - Zalyster, on 05/17/2008, -32/+1111,000,000 diggs to get MrBabyMan to quit.
Or, win a boxing match with him. That might do the trick. - etherreal, on 05/17/2008, -12/+85Its because he is gaming the system. The site is supposed to generate news based on user feedback, not based on a drone army that instantly diggs every story you submit regardless of how much ***** it blows.
- DigiDave, on 05/17/2008, -39/+112One thing I can't stand is that the digg community forgets that there are real people on the other end of avatars. MrBabyMan is a nice and genuine person. I met him in real life - we had a burger and chatted.
It's easy to manifest your frustrations of not getting to the front page on an avatar - but think before you do about what you are really upset about. I bet, if you take the time, you'll find that it isn't MrBabyMan.
So why harass the guy? In fact, why not support him? If somebody is good at something and is passionate about it and it doesn't hurt anyone - why wouldn't you support them?
As I see it: MrBabyMan loves digg. He submits good content which I like to read. Why would we want to stop him from that? - oliversan, on 05/17/2008, -1/+74No, I agree, I have absolutely no issue with MrBabyMan as a person, he doesn't annoy me, but I have seen articles which other people have posted getting no-where and he posts it and it gets to the front page. And that's only because he posted it. Give someone else a chance BabyMan.
- thenumber8, on 05/17/2008, -47/+120I don't understand why everything is getting tossed in mrbabyman's face, there are other power diggers with greater pop ratios (take zaibatsu for example) so it isn't like he's the only one.
Personally I don't think they are gaming the system, most of them have been with digg for a really long time and have earned the place that they have now. - dn11, on 05/17/2008, -0/+72woah... lol. but you do realize that their is a genuine video of mrbabyman, no?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhLoghrZ9vE - Bukowsky, on 05/17/2008, -19/+88wow... people seriously have no life do they? I had no idea that there were so many diggers who have such an intense hatred for somebody they've never even met. I mean... seriously, WHO THE ***** CARES!?
Have ANY of you people EVER met him? Communicated with him? NO. Me neither, but the vast majority of you people are judging somebody solely based on the fact that he gets ALOT of votes and his stuff is promoted to the Front Page quite frequently.
If you don't like the stuff he submits... or just have a general dislike for what is hitting the front page these days. Then MAYBE you should leave the ***** front page! And visit the Upcoming section more often.
↓↓↓ BOOKMARK THIS LINK ↓↓↓
http://digg.com/all/upcoming/most
↑↑↑ BOOKMARK THIS LINK ↑↑↑
It's a link to ALL of the UPCOMING stories that have the MOST votes. This is the BEST OF THE BEST in the upcoming section. Everybody bitches that they don't want to search thru the ton of spam in the upcoming sections... well this link is the best way to filter out the VAST majority of the ***** submitted onto digg lately. As well as, help you find better stuff.
You can also do the same in the various sections by adding an "/most" to the end of every sections URL.
http://digg.com/news/environment/upcoming
http://digg.com/news/environment/upcoming/most
If you want digg to be more like the "old digg" then LEAVE THE FRONT PAGE MORE THAN ONCE A MONTH and help people like MrBabyMan filter thru the ***** in upcoming.
I personally don't know him, ever talked to him, IM or email him.... Frankly, I could give two ***** about him. But it's because of submitters like him, who have continuously submitted, commented and participated in the digg community, that has made digg what it is today... And as much as you don't want to admit it, you know it's true.
Go Ahead. Bury Me Down. - inactive, on 05/17/2008, -32/+101Hello whine-1-1? Call the whaaaaaaambulance!
- Juaquin, on 05/17/2008, -19/+88I don't have a problem with him in general, but a lot of his stories are stories posted by lesser-known diggers that never make the front page, then he dupes them a couple days later and they hit frontpage, whether or not they're actually interesting. Not really fair to the previous submitter, and shows that he's just in it for the glory of the frontpage rather than just bringing us interesting articles.
- DrCyclops, on 05/17/2008, -9/+77Internet is srz biz guys.
- Akaji, on 05/17/2008, -9/+75This is difficult... I want MrBabyMan to quit, but I'm also a major douche.
- Makaveli604, on 05/17/2008, -10/+76I don't think MrBabyMan is the problem, I think it's Digg.
- jonohull, on 05/17/2008, -7/+72He gets his stories because he's Mr.BabyMan. He submits a lot of stupid stories or lame lolcat images that we can find anywhere, and they get to the front because of who he is.
- inactive, on 05/17/2008, -38/+102Maybe if he stops submitting ***** duplicates people wouldn't dislike him.
- legoalert33, on 05/17/2008, -19/+80Something not submitted by MrBabyMan?
- diggit23, on 05/17/2008, -3/+62dugg for social ostracism
- snupples, on 05/17/2008, -3/+61I really don't give a ***** either. I'll digg his stories sometimes and sometimes not. I usually don't pay attention to the submitter before I digg.
But he needs to get the ***** over himself. This isn't the first time he's tried to bring attention to his "plight" as a "top digger". Stay or quit, I don't care. But please: stop whining. - Trentish, on 05/17/2008, -3/+59You do realize the Digg community is made up of more than one person, right?
- y2kbg, on 05/17/2008, -26/+75now that is a good idea
- digjam, on 05/17/2008, -7/+55I dont give a ***** about how many articles he submits on digg or how much time he spends on digg. I agree some of them are real digg worthy. But I DO want to know how the heck does almost quarter of them end up on front page while other great articles keep lurking in upcoming? Same thing happens with MSALEEM too. I am not saying thats bad, just curious how come articles from same persons and websites eg divinecaroline,dailykos,huffingtonpost etc end up on front page.
Somebody is gaming the system for traffic or popularity. - carbog, on 05/17/2008, -25/+72I don't get this. If you don't like his stories, just don't digg them, and they won't make the front page. People like his stories, they digg his stories, they get to the front page. Simple democracy.
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