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- goodmangreen, on 11/05/2007, -52/+419At every turn Ron Paul does or says something that makes me think "Oh my, there is hope for us yet!"
- The_Wallbanger, on 10/11/2007, -25/+274"5. Digg.com: Go register at digg.com and do a search for Ron Paul. We have a double task here. First, read through the articles before you digg them. If you notice something posted twice, only digg the one that has the most so far, and bury the other. This way, people on digg won't become burnt out by The Ron paul campaign. We can't be called spammers if we only post one article about a certain topic, and if everyone is digging the same articles, the likelihood that story being on the front page, with the most exposure, increases."
SOURCE: http://libertus93.blogspot.com/2007/05/ten-ways-to-help-online-ron-paul.html - ChuckIT, on 10/11/2007, -48/+238so you have to be an "original" digg member to digg or submit? so what's the problem with signing up for digg to digg / submit stories about a candidate you like? I've been using digg since June 9, 2006 and i've been digging ron paul stories.
- R34C7, on 10/11/2007, -47/+188According to Alexa http://libertus93.blogspot.com/2007/05/ten-ways-to-help-online-ron-paul.html has only received 15 hits in the last 3 months... Not all of us are spammers. Your guys alarmist ***** doesn't trick everyone. There may be spammers, I don't deny that. I am under the distinct impression that the majority of people digging these articles are not spammers.
If spamming pisses you off so much, then why do you respond with your sensationalist attacks in every goddamn Ron Paul article. You are the worst perpetrators of spam on this website! - ChuckIT, on 10/25/2007, -16/+124@the_wallbanger
that's pretty cool, at least they know the rules of digg. - kayaker712, on 10/11/2007, -25/+127We need everyone to tell 10 people about Ron Paul and have them tell another 10 people and so on.
I just sent his PCC $250 and I commit to another $100 a month until this thing is won.
Everyone give $5, $10. Give anything. Give the cost of one Starbucks coffee every week.
We have chance to make a difference and save the country. It is probably our last chance.
Imagine our country with Giuliani or Hilary in the White House
Small donations to Ron's campaign will be cheaper than the bullets we will need later - R34C7, on 10/11/2007, -19/+96It is the Digg algorithm recognizing what these guys are talking about.
The problem is that they are talking out of their asses so much that they don't realize how many diggers there are that aren't gaming Digg. The algorithm is very good at figuring out what is spam and who is gaming, that is why this isn't on the front page! When it does make it to the front page though you can be damn sure that there is a good amount of legitimate users digging the article. - goodmangreen, on 10/11/2007, -8/+84That's not cool man! That's the kind of rhetoric 'they' use. I'm for Ron Paul because he's better than that.
- EntropyMan, on 11/05/2007, -13/+88Well, I'm still very positive about Ron Paul, but I'm getting annoyed by the dupes as well. Ron Paul supporters better not turn out to be brown-shirts, as some seem with comments like "if you don't like Paul you're a traitor" or the rampant personal attacks if you say anything critical of the man.
Come on. You can support him and still critique his positions if you're fair about it.
Paul is great for a lot of reasons. I think he could really clean up Washington -- like a biblical flood, in fact. But biblical floods are pretty devastating and indiscriminate. And I'm frankly concerned about some of his policies, esp. where his religious views seem to drive his views on the constitutionality of this or that. It detracts from his image of being principled, IMO. But I hope his natural rationality would in the end prevail when better arguments (e.g. on stem cells, separation of church and state, how to deal with racial inequality) are presented. - COMPACTION, on 10/11/2007, -16/+90I am Canadian and I pray that someone good get's in. Ron Paul is a good man but Goullianni is a mobster.
- GazeboflossUK, on 10/11/2007, -21/+91Again, Ron Paul proves he is someone very special.
- clownguyx, on 10/11/2007, -7/+69I'm with goodmangreen. We need to take the moral high ground here. Statements like that are on par with Rudy's statement about what will happen if a democrat gets elected president.
- peaceluvandkurt, on 10/11/2007, -13/+74Man...I Love Ron Paul!
"They're gonna to succeed if we don't do something about it!"
...That's why he's got my vote! - JD52, on 10/11/2007, -12/+68Wait a minute!?
A presidential candidate I might actually consider voting for?!
WTF is the world coming to?! - brstilson, on 10/11/2007, -14/+68"I reminds one of the love and loyalty Scientologists have for L. Ron Hubbard."
Except L. Ron Hubbard wasn't a fan of individual liberty and freedom. - AlphaEta, on 10/11/2007, -15/+65Hey R34C7: I agree that not all of these people are spamming, but even you have to admit that some of the comments here are a bit fishy.
Also, you said: "According to Alexa http://libertus93.blogspot.com/2007/05/ten-ways-to-help-online-ron-paul.html has only received 15 hits in the last 3 months..." I take you at your word and am not going to check Alexa, but that story appears to have received 75+ diggs, which means a lot of people are blind-digging Ron Paul stories. That defies what digg.com is all about!
By the by, I'm neither for nor against Paul, but I can certainly say that I like his stance on the Iraq war.
I was a little concerned about the racism charges earlier, but after reading some of his more recent stuff I'm convinced it was a fluke. - natmaster, on 10/11/2007, -24/+73I don't know what you guys are talking about with regard to Ron Paul spammers. I think Ron Paul's great, and my profile has been around since a few months after digg was born. Am I a spammer? Go check out my profile if you don't believe me. I bet there are many more like me.
You're just jealous because Ron Paul makes sense and people like him. If this is dugg down, I know that it is really about the anti-Ron zombies with new accounts. - inactive, on 10/11/2007, -8/+57Hey geeks, don't forget there is a bigger world out there than jus the internet. Get out and do some freeway blogging and other rl stuff to perpetuate the message.
- evilTak, on 10/11/2007, -18/+64So why isn't Jesus running for president?
- StillGaming, on 10/11/2007, -11/+56froggy, what the ***** kind of lilly pad are you snorting?
- Patriot-X, on 10/11/2007, -13/+58I've been a fan of Ron Paul for a long time, well before his bid for 2008.
But there really does seem to be a lot of "fishy" Ron Paul traffic here.
Hopefully stupid Digg tactics won't poison everyone to his ideas and qualifications.
Sorry for any underhanded tricks some Paul supporters might be using. - alice104, on 10/11/2007, -8/+52Excellent.
Congressman Paul needs to continue to go on the offensive... speaking confidently and forcefully at every turn. People are suckers for the truth, and the more they hear him speak, the worse his opponents will look by comparison.
Yes, he has a real chance to win... but it's going to take a lot of hard work and more than a little luck. - xxsethamxx2000, on 10/11/2007, -11/+55Im new to Digg and I love it.. I'll tell you the truth.. i watched the first debate and was amazed by a man of truth. I went to the net to find out more... I found his site a wiki etc... then i saw a story that had a digg link next to it.. i clicked and here i was WOW a site where people can leave comments and "vote" on everything. I have never heard of Ron Paul before the debate nor this site. I have voted once in my life. I will vote for this man. And i will do it everywhere i see him. I totally understand what people are saying here.. all these people out of nowhere with diggs only on Ron Paul... but you gotta see that though i cant speak for all of them i can tell you that many people are activated by Ron Paul... Activated by TRUTH. And here they are to be heard... and elsewhere on the net.
Sure its my opinion but isnt that all that this site is about? Thanks digg for hearing me out. - kayaker712, on 10/11/2007, -14/+56If this fails we have no one to blame but ourselves.
Control of the media is total but control of the information stream is not.
If either of those two fascists win we are done, finished. Our descendant will curse is fir being complacent and lazy and handing to them the disaster that will the former Constitutional Republic of the United States.
We CAN stop this. It is literally our last chance
Our grandchildren's blood will be on OUR hands. - emjaymj, on 10/11/2007, -12/+52@bigdavediode
What do you mean THEN you'll make your decision? You've been more fervent in your attempts to discredit Ron Paul than most spammers have been to garner support for him. You make an iteration of the same exact post on every Ron Paul story that's made it to the front page in the last two weeks.
If his "racist" newsletters are anything like this: http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.african.american/msg/c8668bd3662b0fa5
Then you need to actually re-evaluate what a racist is, as it's people like you who create the politcally-correct atmosphere that makes it all but impossible to tackle certain issues. He makes a lot of good points in the article, many of them the same points I've heard from intelligent black men and women. I actually give him credit for this article because he's not tying himself down worrying about political correctness. He's not talking about all black people, he's talking about a large part of the black culture, which is vastly different than other cultures in the United States. For some reason, there is a belief largely held by people that white people are not allowed to acknowledge these differences but everybody else is. Isn't THAT racist? Hell, he's even sympathetic towards the Koreans and Cambodians - a racist wouldn't be.
Would you like to point out a few passages that strike you as inaccurate? You're accusing him of being racist, when the alternative would be to feign ignorance? Yeah, that's the kind of politician we want - one who's too afraid to deal with certain issues lest he be labelled a racist or a homophobe or whatever the flavor of the month happens to be. - npiv, on 10/11/2007, -8/+47It's too bad he doesn't really have a chance. Im not American, but I would love to see this guy get into office, for the world's sake. If America wants to reclaim its role as the frontrunner of democracy, then it must do so by example: A healthy economy with little governement control. Get these arabs watching "friends" again, go to iran or pakistan and see a kid wearing a "guns and roses" t-shirt. I mean, Bush would have you believe the war on terror is a difficult one. The truth is that all arab frustration really comes from one key point, "leave them alone". Pull out, protect your own borders and trade.
It sounds good to me. i'm from the netherlands by the way. Europe doesn't like Bush very much, but we still feel close to you. We may have our differences but we are still your closest ideological brethren in this world (after canada).
Peace and love... - NeOmega, on 10/11/2007, -7/+44Ron Paul's myspace friends jumped 50% since the last debate, form 12,000 to over 18,000.
It's not spam, it's real people, and they heard his message, and are celebrating in droves.
they are coming from everywhere to speak out and say they support this "loony" candidate.
Fact is, we have time and time again engaged in drastic and senseless policies that have made the individual American more and more irreleveant. The Constitution is there to defend the individual, and Ron Paul is there to defend the constitution. - inactive, on 10/11/2007, -5/+42I'm a Ron Paul supporter, but don't lump me in with the spammers. I'm not new. I bury duplicates and go back and undigg some stories.
I have to point out a couple of things to put some of this supposed 'spam' in perspective though...
First... ALL new and breaking stories get duplicated... many times, it's just the nature of digg and people that want to feel that fleeting bit of attention by having 'their' version dugg up I guess, but really a LOT of people completely ignore when it asks you if it's a duplicate story. I've written about this before, and I think it's probably an unfortunate but unavoidable part of digg. It's also why the bury->duplicate option is available.
Second... there is a small group of anti-Paul spammers who are either too cowardly to actually announce who they are FOR or are just the types of negative people who like to be against things without being for anything. This little group continually post misleading Ron Paul articles couched in a way to make it seem they are pro Paul articles. Yesterday in fact, I saw about 8 articles come from the same user in a span of about 15 minues which all fit this bill. So, if the spam bothers you know at least it's coming from both sides. Note: I'm not talking about articles criticizing Paul here, these are folks who are intentionally making their articles appear to be from Ron Paul supporters and they obviously are not.
Don't kill the messenger. - EntropyMan, on 10/11/2007, -12/+48If you're equating the election of Ron Paul to the coming of the Messiah, then we're doomed.
This is about political choices for how we live our lives, not salvation for any afterlife. - Iwantawii, on 10/11/2007, -14/+49You know, you can argue about the spam all day... but in nearly every Ron Paul story on Digg, someone comments in brief "Wow, I've never even heard of Ron Paul until today and he's got my vote! DUGG."
And this person can be a legitimate Digg user, maybe even spread the word to a person or two.
So IMNSFHO, it's worth it. Spam on! - babcat, on 10/11/2007, -11/+45Dr. Ron Paul is the only candidate in the Republican debates that actually respects and defends the constitution. The rest of them could care less about our rights and freedoms.
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -11/+41I've had this ridiculous man crush on Ron Paul for a while now, I see why its driving some diggers nuts, but damn the man makes sense. Its hard to not like a potential president who will actually communicate his thoughts logically and has sound reasoning to support that logic! I wrote this article about my mancrush on Ron Paul, maybe people here will appreciate it.
- krebcycle, on 10/11/2007, -9/+37He's also very socially conservative in general, which he's been pretty quiet about recently in order to get a broader base of support. Basically he's a super conservative republican, much like Pat Buchanan, who wants us out of the war in Iraq (as does Buchanan).
- annaponda, on 10/11/2007, -7/+35yep,
for this message to spread, people will need to convert their on-line presence
to the physical world activities. - polyGone, on 10/11/2007, -8/+35TimothyBryce
Blow me! You've been a member for 19 days and the only thing you've submitted are 2 anti-Ron Paul stories. - nafai, on 10/11/2007, -2/+28"Do you seriously believe this country's on the verge of a civil war?"
Naw, our government will enact a totalitarian state first, then civil war. - simjamlmx, on 10/12/2007, -16/+42There is hope for you americans. but it only comes with this guy. i'm british and i'm getting hyped about Ron Paul. He's absolutely what america needs right now and what we all need as the 'Leader of the free World'. you americans need to post Ron Paul banners, posters or graffitti all around where you live. chalk his name over the floors of your towns enough people will see it before the rain or some dumb ass cleans it up. i've been posting his name and website all other the forums and everywhere.
- Orbiter9211, on 10/11/2007, -6/+32Its time to stop Digging & time to hit the streets & tell people about Ron Paul. The Digg peeps know who he is & what he stands for.
- zenatek, on 10/11/2007, -17/+41Why do Ron Paul stories consistently not hit the front page even with sometimes twice the diggs as the ones at the top of the front page?!?!
- asdfasdf, on 10/11/2007, -6/+30Who cares if users just make profiles to digg or submit articles? I'm an old hand here. I have filtered the frontage to only display political and science articles, and I digg almost all Ron Paul posts simply because I agree with the articles, or want to bring light to them by getting it to the front page. If an idiot like Guiliani ever says something intelligent and informative, or if there is an article bashing Ron Paul that is more than just spam or lacking of facts, I'll digg that too.
- iherbivore, on 10/11/2007, -8/+32I just joined, too. I joined so I can add my vote to Ron Paul stories. Will I participate in other stories? Of course, but after months and months of reading here, Ron Paul is what made me finally sign up. The increased traffic people are mentioning may not be 'spam' as some are calling it.
On a side note, I contributed some $ to Gravel. This is the first time in my life (30+ years) I have contributed anything to a campaign. This will also be the first time I vote in an election. I wonder how many other people will take part in the process for the first time this election. - jonpotz, on 10/11/2007, -3/+26I am an atheist as well, but I feel he won't slam religion down my throat or hear god tell him to attack other countries.
- riverside71, on 10/11/2007, -7/+30The FIRST thing we need to do is to make sure our elections are fair and represent the will of the people.. without that.. you could donate and volunteer and promote anyone as much as you want, but the only people emerging victorious out of polling booths would be the pre approved establishment candidates.
Take back our voting booths, Insist on hand counting of votes and not private companies doing all of it in secrecy and announcing results within hours of the closing of polls with no audits, no checks, no paper trails. - antiLIE, on 10/11/2007, -13/+36AAAAAAUUUUGGHHH!! I CAN'T BELIEVE I MISSED HIM!! I am in Austin.. I was doing absolutly nothing this weekend! I would have been there supporting if I would have known he was there! RON PAUL '08!!!
- rampage1, on 10/11/2007, -5/+28Seems to me there is justa HIGH percentage of Digg users who like Ron Paul's positions. Can it be that they like his positions so much they are overwelming most of the internet...afraid so, people who have access to information just tend to gravitate towards a candidate that hold true to the Constitution and protecting individual rights.
- Urusai, on 10/11/2007, -8/+31Maybe because Jesus didn't approve of Christians going around trying to run things like Pharisees.
- thedr96run, on 10/11/2007, -3/+25"We need everyone to tell 10 people about Ron Paul and have them tell another 10 people and so on."
I'm a supporter of RP, I've made my phone calls, and sent emails to MSNBC and the Michigan Republican Party, but this isn't Amway...
As much as I love to see the word spreading about RP as a Repub. candidate, I seriously doubt it's going to be enough unless we can get the MSM onboard. I told my best buddy about him over a few beers and shooting some darts last Friday, and I can tell you that it went in one ear and out the other even though we've been friends for 15 years. If he heard some of the same stuff from insert_media_outlet_here, it'd mean more than coming from me. - Kombaiyashii, on 10/11/2007, -10/+31Some people don't just browse digg for their stories; they go to the source of the stories and digg them when appropriate. This isn't spamming, it's just that they happen to like the articles on their particular website and they find that website a better source of information than digg. It's certainly not a trick, we are good supporters that don't resort to foxnews tatics.
The grassroots of Ron Paul is factual and so is the censorship of him. We’ve got a person talking about real issues and he’s blowing up, even Cavuto got him on fox because his viewers demanded him to be on there in his words ‘More so than any other candidate.’ - vanadium77, on 10/11/2007, -4/+25If the Patriots had Digg or other social media networking tools in the 1700s (laughable, but bear with me here), do you not think they'd use every legitimate method possible to get the word out to potential supporters against the status quo?
That said, if there is multiple-account gaming going on, as an ardent Ron Paul supporter I'm against it 100%. Just because his supporters need to get the message out about his campaign, it doesn't mean they should resort to unsavory and questionable tactics to do so. Remember, as Paul takes the moral high ground, so should the supporters who represent him.
Likewise, the explosion in new profiles during the timeframe noted above may be symptomatic of a growing and invigorated support base. Some may be 'gamers', true, but it stands to reason that a majority of them may in fact be genuine.
In any case, like other supporters have noted above, it's time to take this off-line; the majority of voters out there aren't Diggers, and while the Internet is great, it can only reach so many. Get involved. - BravoLima, on 10/11/2007, -21/+42__________________________________________________________________________
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