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- DivisibleByZero, on 01/22/2008, -0/+35About the only one of these that's true is number 9: A digg story agrees with your worldview.
Here's my list:
1) A popular Digg story mentions Ron Paul
2) A popular Digg story bashes George Bush
3) A popular Digg story bashes religion
4) A popular Digg story contains numerous grammatical errors in the headline.
5) A popular Digg story is really just some blog linking to some other blog, which may or may not eventually link to a credible source.
6) A popular Digg story has TASERs
7) A popular Digg story is about Digg
8) A popular Digg story is a "top 10" list with more/less than 10 items.
9) A popular Digg story is in the "Political News" section when it should be in the "political opinion" section. - LyleWarren, on 01/22/2008, -3/+34Yep, I remember the days of old when I used to watch Kevin on "The Screen Savers"! Hell I payed to have that channel on my cable!
Why not 10 reasons? We all know we love our 10 reasons for.... - notque, on 01/22/2008, -4/+18What crap. If you wanted to have content about what makes a digg story popular, you'd put things about what time of day for what submission matters, and other things that really matter to people.
A fluffy story with generalizations doesn't help anyone. Matches your world view. Oh.. I've been submitting all this crap I can't stand because I thought it would make me popular!
... - bamafun, on 01/22/2008, -4/+18did you forget we're in the middle of a writer's strike? You only get 9 till the strike is over lol
- Teej, on 01/22/2008, -5/+17Then turn off the categories you don't want anything to do with.
- milocat, on 01/22/2008, -6/+16yet you're still commenting here. why don't you prove your conviction by actually....leaving
- Sairgem, on 01/22/2008, -1/+9If by "normal" you mean high school dropouts who can't form a complete sentence to save their lives.
- NuclearBlast, on 01/22/2008, -2/+10Obligatory dugg for Digg in title.
- AriaStar, on 01/22/2008, -1/+8Wipe your nose off, you got something brown on it.
- Bamborzled, on 01/22/2008, -1/+7Here's #10, leaked for your convenience:
10. A great story has top 10 lists. Tons and tons of top 10 lists. - Sogui, on 01/22/2008, -1/+6A great story must be sensationalized
A great story must contain blogspam
A great story begins with a plea for Diggs on a forum - Dokument, on 01/22/2008, -2/+7reason 10: hypnotoad
- inactive, on 01/22/2008, -1/+6then i guess yer just another turd......
- birdly, on 01/22/2008, -0/+5"One user, one vote, no exceptions, and everyone and every site was allowed to participate with equal opportunity."
He must have forgotten all the Ron Paul fans with multiple identities. - inactive, on 01/22/2008, -3/+7"...the Digg story is easy to trust"
- Yeah, with sources like Rawstory, Cracked, and MacRumors.... I certainly trust EVERY story I see here.... I mean, sometimes the Title and description cant even be found in the articles. People rarely Digg content, they digg headlines, just like Fox News Junkies.
"Digg is subtle"
- Yeah, right. Everyone here is so tactful and subtle. Debating in the comments section of Digg is like swimming up a waterfall. If you aren't an Atheist or agree with "the crowd" on all the digg mob topics, then you are beated to a pulp. Count how many +1000 digg articles have OMG or WTF in them. THAT'S subtle alright.
"...a following"
Yeah, because if it doesn't, then people will spam it until it does.
"... agrees with your world view."
- Because the last thing you want to do is challenge your beliefs or learn something new that changes your opinion. Most of the bad Diggers come here to read a headline, description, laugh at the comments, and then feel like they learned something, or they know enough about a topic to talk about it at the water-cooler. It's sad. - Bamborzled, on 01/22/2008, -3/+7I like Slashdot. Unlike Digg, it has level-headed commentors and (relatively) insightful discussion.
- 3tcp, on 01/22/2008, -0/+4Matches your worldview... even if its a bunch of crap. This is one of the biggest problems with digg these days imo, people care too much about the emotion in a story and not enough about whether it's actually true.
The science stuff is mostly honest but whenever a story may have political implications it rockets to the top regardless of the content. It could be something like 'science finds pigmentation genes' and it will make it to the front page from a far left blog as 'Science pinpoints the cause of race, Bush Administration, Republican Party, Corporations, Christians and anyone I disagree with not included in those categories are considering a proposal for a mandatory national program for 'deminoritization by 'curing' blackness, asianism and the hispanic plague'.
Maybe the weight of diggs shoudl be more heavily adjusted by the historical accuracy of the source. - Septimus, on 01/22/2008, -0/+310: Because your session has expired.
- nick111, on 01/22/2008, -1/+4I thought that the top 100 super-users controlled about 50% of what gets on the front page?
- JAG731, on 01/22/2008, -0/+3I miss the day when some poor guy bought a TV @ Best Buy and they wouldn't accept his warranty when he tried to return it for some defect or something like that.
Digg users banded together, and within hours, Best Buy was hounded to fix the problem. I remember emailing Best Buy about the issue, and actually receiving a reply from someone at Corp. Best Buy consumer services dept. saying the problem was being looked into and on its way to restitution... (Obviously, other diggers did the same...)
That to me is what I liked about Digg -- power of the internet masses standing up for the underdog. Lately that power has turned into reading fluff stories that make you wonder how the hell it made the front page. - dannytehmanny, on 01/22/2008, -1/+4Yeah list format!
- WikiEasy, on 01/22/2008, -1/+4Digg is overrun by SEO and blog spammers. The entire system is broken, and Digg itself is going down with it.
- lcarsdeveloper, on 01/22/2008, -0/+3Well then here's the ultimate Digg headline....."Top 10 reasons why Ron Paul says the idiot George Bush Tasered him atfer readig a story on Diggg saying that God doens't exist". Submitted by myblogrules22 in "Political News". Source - myblogrules22.blogspot.com. Description - "Read my 12 reasons here, I'm a blogger so my opinion matters!".
- SemiSarcastic, on 01/22/2008, -0/+3I dunno I kind of feel uneasy about the last one. It makes us seem more close minded, when put into those terms. Not to say that most of what gets on the front page is bad but, it seems to be arguing that we're no different than those who support Bush. However, I suppose when it comes right down to it we wouldn't be here if there were not any articles here that didn't complement our own world view and things that we're interested in.
- kerpalh, on 01/22/2008, -0/+2this story just wants to get dugg. Its listing all the qualities of itself.
- RAEP, on 01/22/2008, -3/+5If by worst show ever, you mean best show ever.
- inactive, on 01/22/2008, -0/+2what are we, grown ups now?
- notque, on 01/22/2008, -3/+5Here's #10
Don't listen to anyone tell you how to game the system. Be yourself. Learn from other people. Listen. Treat them as if they were in front of you. Ignore people who use logical fallacies. If you don't know, say so, or don't comment. Be open to discussion, and have fun. - terracottapai, on 01/22/2008, -1/+3Do I really have to be the one to say it?
Boobies = front page - inactive, on 01/22/2008, -0/+2what, no boobs?
- lcarsdeveloper, on 01/22/2008, -0/+2Looks like Digg censored your link.
- TechFinder, on 01/22/2008, -0/+1test comment
- Lucas123, on 01/22/2008, -0/+1A popular Digg story is only popular because your "friends" list is large enough to get it in front of an editor. Those browsing through new content rarely vote a story beyond four or five Diggs.
- inactive, on 01/22/2008, -0/+1those *****!
- HonoredMule, on 01/22/2008, -0/+1The article! It says nothing!
...guess I don't need these goggles. - terracottapai, on 01/22/2008, -1/+2Let's start with the people who manage to comment on EVERY STORY.
- keithc01, on 01/22/2008, -0/+1Wait... Is this article about Digg itself or articles on Digg?? WTF. "The Digg Story?" Seriously, WTF. Go ahead and bury me, but this ***** is poorly written.
- rdaly92, on 01/22/2008, -2/+3I believe you forgot
A popular Digg story is always a repost of a repost of a repost - inactive, on 01/22/2008, -5/+6Scientology is bad!
Throw more money a the Ron Paul blimp!
Bush is worser than Hitler.
Digg is the public toilet of the internet. - BinaryFragger, on 01/22/2008, -0/+1I like Digg for the variety and quantity of articles, but the commenting system is junk.
They're was an article yesterday where literally every comment was buried.
Then you have the "LOL!!" or "***** the police!!" comments that receive 50 diggs. This place sometimes resembles an AOL chatroom. - timbo458, on 01/22/2008, -0/+1Buried for telling me why I like DIGG!
- inactive, on 01/22/2008, -0/+1because voting is democracy.
- Wade, on 01/22/2008, -7/+8You're getting dugg down, but this site used to be a lot more technology and news related.
- Septimus, on 01/22/2008, -0/+1IE7Pro
- timbo458, on 01/22/2008, -0/+1And I thought it was just me!
- PhreedomX, on 01/22/2008, -0/+110) A great story contains (PICS!!!) in the headline.
- crazysamz, on 01/22/2008, -0/+1I just thought of a Book/movie Idea from reading this article and watching this video- I just wrote a few paragraphs here in this comment box, but I'm not posting it. Until the story is real. And I don't want to spoil the ending. It will probably be a book though, seeing as a movie would be quite impossible for me.
- inactive, on 01/22/2008, -0/+1b
- inactive, on 01/22/2008, -0/+1Graph-to-ma-la-gah...if you read the whole thing you need a day job.
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