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- Virak, on 10/12/2007, -8/+266I had a witty comment about this story, but I can't seem to recall it.
- tsunamisteve, on 10/12/2007, -5/+139We may be (collectively) dumber than goldfish, but we're not gonna click your spam.
- themastersb, on 10/12/2007, -8/+136If we had more goldfish here there would be less duplicate stories.
- halleyscomet, on 10/12/2007, -9/+102And yet, the Daily show is sadly, more accurate than most Mainstream Media sources.
*sigh* - Cozmcphish, on 10/12/2007, -15/+87I think this was a dupe, but I cant remember.
- DaffyDuck, on 10/12/2007, -4/+51I bet the goldfish have no problem reading it!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -16/+55I'm sick of all these people trying to be funny by retelling the same... what was I talking about?
- titlesaysitall, on 10/12/2007, -6/+43(insert comment on you forgot something here)
- JonnyTrombone, on 10/12/2007, -3/+33Quick, let's submit it twice more in the next few hours!
- sugarbearcsa, on 10/12/2007, -7/+31Your assuming that everyone reads every story again. For instance a story could be reposted from 6 months ago, but if it the first time i've seen it i'm going to digg it. I belive a lot of reposted storys that get place on the home page again are becasue new people (or people who didn't see it the first time) see it, and digg it
- JamesWilson, on 10/12/2007, -1/+22Dupes are a horrible indicator of memory...
it used to be a good one..and every story on the homepage used to a good one..
but now that digg is so popular now that the amount of crap stories on the homepage has increased significantly..and it is easy to miss a good story as it scrolls off the homepage so fast.
The algorithm should be changed to require more diggs before going to the homepage. - aaeyers, on 10/12/2007, -2/+22I don't even know what that means...
Do you mean differential calculus?
Or to find the derivative of a function perhaps?
Please explain this new "derivative" calculus you speak of... - Langford, on 10/12/2007, -5/+23Just a blog whining that duplicate articles equate to having a poor memory.
- chicken101, on 10/12/2007, -6/+23Let's see Mr.goldfish do derivative calculus!
- jonj, on 10/12/2007, -4/+17too many links in that page to be able to read the content
- xGORDOx, on 10/12/2007, -22/+35Goldfish also realize that the Daily Show is fake news.
- succubuskiller, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12Well maybe Mark should have done some better research and clicked 1 drop down box to notice that the article that is 43 days old did not make it to the front page and therefore was not seen by the VAST majority of digg users.The older one that did make it to the front page was submitted 415 days ago.
I think that there have been A LOT more new people to Digg since then and if it is interesting a whole new round of people would Digg it, otherwise they would mark it as duplicate,etc. For example, I did not digg the first story Python story because I didn't see it, this time I saw it and I dugg the one that made the front page.... - pyman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9My goldfish hates reading Digg.
The bowl distorts the view. - Obvioustroll, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Also, goldfish don't get defensive and hostile when someone makes a humorous observation.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10dupe check is meant to keep current stories from competeing with eachother.. having hundred people submit the same link the same day. It is not meant to keep the same story from reaching the front page at a later date.
Looking at the number of stories that make it to the front page i worked out that a digger spending 1hr a day on digg 365 is going to miss 38 stories a day or 13,870 a year
It is foolish to try to deny a majority of users from digging a story just because a minority saw it on the front page previously. - dignation, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10Shouldn't digg users be better about preventing such infractions?
- AriaStar, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10Goldfish also don't constantly have new things going into their heads to remember. If I saw a story three months ago (which wouldn't have happened since I've only been here three weeks), with all that's happened since then, would I really be expected to recall it now? What is the title didn't interest me then? What if I didn't read every single story?
I've often wondered how goldfish sushi would taste. - DASH, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8What a coincidence that video was posted 43 days ago as well.
- sinembarg0, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7More goldfish, less sheep.
- KSUdesigner, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Just because you're new to digg doesn't mean everybody else is. There are plenty of people who have been around for years.
- vixiecron, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5"Dugg down for using SNAP! in a sentence. Stupidest phrase ever. Grow a mind and quit adopting the trendy word of the day."
"Oh, snap!" he said defiantly, in between clenched teeth. - Obvioustroll, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5What part of "social bookmarking" don't you understand?
The way you get to the front page is to have a group of friends digg your stories as soon as you post them. - weiran, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6It's a joke, get a sense of humour.
- inactive, on 11/13/2007, -1/+5The problem with repeat links (aka "well, it gives people who missed it the first time a chance to see it again!") is that we have to repost the entire goddamn history of the Internet every time somebody gets a new AOL account. "Wait, I missed the first twelve!" "Oh, sorry, OK, everybody else rewind, we have to start over from the first link again." Archives. Use them. love them, point to them.
The way it should be, every page gets linked ONCE, then banned forever from linking again. All attempts to resubmit the same link again get automatically translated to a Digg for the original copy of that link. No option, no exception, no excuse. In fact, it should check the other social bookmarking sites and deny if you just pulled it off Daily Rotation. We know where Daily Rotation is, thank you, we read that first before coming here. Not every video on YouTube is Your Little Secret Find Known Only To You. Yes, bookmarks and RSS feeds work for the rest of us, too.
No, it's not just Digg's repeat, it's that people scrape links off Delicious to post on Reddit, and from Reddit to dzone, and dzone to Slashdot, and Slashdot to Boing Boing, and Boing Boing to Netscape, and Netscape to Tailrank, and Tailrank to Fark, and Fark to Yahoo, and Yahoo to Davezilla, Davezilla to Reality Carnival, Reality Carnival to Everything2, Everything2 to LXer, and all those links end up here eventually by which time they're growing hair. And then Digg gets scraped to post the same links back to the other sites. And all the social bookmark sites say the same thing: "We repost it to give the people who misssed it the first time a chance to see it" God, I saw it back in 1995 already there are NEW THINGS HAPPENING NOW. Hey, guess what, there are episodes of TV shows you missed the first time, too; do we all have to sit through it all again until one person has caught up on every episode of "I Love Lucy"?
You people know what the Internet is becoming? A hundred thousand social bookmarking sites passing the same Top Twenty links around in circles forever!!!
When we repost the same twenty sites over and over, you're also depriving those of us who already SAW the Amazing Singing Dancing Chicken 12 times from seeing the NEW cool sites that have happened THIS YEAR. You want golden oldies, there's the Wayback Machine. - chicken101, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7derivative and differential calculus are the same thing.
- Skunkhair, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6Ohhh! SHNAP!!! I just got pwned by a goldfish!!!!
- raid517, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Digg is for the attention deficits and misfits o the modern age. It is the world in digest - the MacDonald's of the Internet.
There is just something about digg - and other sites like it, in that while it is addictive, when you are reading it, you can physically feel yourself becoming dumber and dumber.
It's an odd phenomenon that I don't quite understand.
One thing I do know is that the thing that makes me truly dumb and which does this the fastest s the endless parade of brain dead TV in the digg video section. I swear there is something subversive about that, as the more I watch these videos, the less I am inclined to question my own personal existence and the fate of mankind as a whole. Why bother asking questions like this when you can watch what happens when you put a furby in a microwave.
Anyway, lol well I've forgotten the point I was trying to make - which I guess kind of proves the point. - Blitzenn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Whew! I checked and Fish.com is not available (retail fish sales). We would have been sunk if that started up as a news site.
- mv10, on 10/12/2007, -4/+7See This wouldnt be a problem if everytime someone wrote "DUPE" it wouldnt be automatically dugg down by everyone every single time
- guyver8400, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4In russia you are smarter than goldfish
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3actually they even tried removing dupe check for a time.. but if you want to email me with all 13,000 stories i miss a year.. i really wont mind if you cry dupe.. its not like the same people are digging the same article
and thats probably the most important point. You cant say diggers have short memories when they never saw the digg in the first place - Meursault, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Shouldn't digg code be better about preventing such infractions?
- zbeast, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Ok gold fish may have longer memorys than most digg users.
but i'm sure that most digg users dont eat there own poo. - MrCoke, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2this goes to show you how much even digg members hate digg, over 800 digs on a story that insults its own members
- lukas88, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Maybe we don't see every article that hits the front page. Not everybody wants to spend all day in front of the computer.
- shodson, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2The goldfish must have 43 folders
- MrTea, on 10/12/2007, -0/+23rd paragraph: http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=banish
- shiftless, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3The goldfish training video was awesome
- ahndru, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Pretty sure the goldfish video was on digg already too...
http://digg.com/videos_comedy/Uncanny_Synchronized_Swimming_Goldfish - KSUdesigner, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I tend to feel smarter after spending time on digg. There are plenty of things I've learned about through the articles on digg that I never knew before. There is much more to digg than just the video section. If you don't like that kind of video then don't click it, simple as that.
- pdrolet, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I have submitted a few stories that never made it to front page, only to see someone else a week after post the same article, with the same abstract, and make it to hundreds of Diggs.
- Araxen, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2This article above any other one shows how stupid they are.
http://www.digg.com/tech_news/.9999999=1 - SanTe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Author makes stupid assumption that the same digg users viewing a story today are the same ones from 43 days ago, and that diggers want to spend all their time combing the digg archive for dupe stories, when web pages and RSS feeds are much more desirable and promote communities.
Buried as Inaccurate (and stupid if that were an option). - HatchedEggs, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Whats funny is that everybody diggs this... all the while thinking they aren't the ones being referred to in the article.
Hi there.
Who me?
Doh.
Bye the way... the only thing worse than this, is that the guys over at Slashdot do the same thing, and there are only a few of them. At least we can blame the fact that anybody can submit. - origclubsoda, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3RIGHT ON.
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