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- Nation, on 10/12/2007, -5/+19Here is all the places I quickly found that he spammed about his "right-winged consperacy"
Here is what is says each time:
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Wow! Look at this, the Digg moderators have taken off my VERY accurate story about Digg.
http://digg.com/tech_news/How_Michelle_Malkin_s_followers_are_promoting_Digg_articles
I got 33 diggs in one hour and then the article was removed from the queue. If the article is up to 33 shouldn't it be on THIS list?
http://digg.com/view/technology/upcoming/most
I hate to spam other articles, but what's going on? I hope I don’t get my account suspended next.
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http://digg.com/other_sports/Michael_Robertson_My_100K_Offer_to_Floyd_Landis?cshow=2534322#c2534322
http://digg.com/offbeat_news/Problem_drinkers_see_soccer_style_red_cards?cshow=2534172#c2534172
http://digg.com/linux_unix/Linus_Torvalds_Curses_in_DRM_Debate_Gets_Comment_Deleted?cshow=2534164#c2534164
http://digg.com/soccer/Soccer_Players_Face_Ban_For_Racism?cshow=2534117#c2534117
http://digg.com/general_sciences/How_Google_Earth_Is_Changing_Science?cshow=2534247#c2534247
http://digg.com/celebrity/Mel_Gibson_s_Wild_Night_in_Malibu_PHOTOS?cshow=2534144#c2534144
Then you changed your post to this:
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So, there you have it. I can't post this story to Digg without it being buried by a small number of right-wing users - so my only other option to inform the community about the Digg problem is to spam other articles with this link.
http://digg.com/tech_news/A_small_group_of_users_may_be_controlling_parts_of_Digg
I hope they don't suspend my account.
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http://digg.com/hardware/IBM_Shows_Sustained_207_Teraflops_Performance_on_Blue_Gene_L_with_Qbox_App?cshow=2536404#c2536404
http://digg.com/gaming_news/Top_10_Most_Anticipated_PC_Games?cshow=2536407#c2536407
http://digg.com/general_sciences/Abundant_Power_from_Universal_Geothermal_Energy?cshow=#c2536412
http://digg.com/gadgets/GP2X_Linux_based_handheld_gaming_unit_Retro_Heaven?cshow=2536415#c2536415
Why did this spammer pick these posts? They range form soccer, to hardware, to gadgets ... but they all have one thing in common. They are/were all on the front page. - balognytts, on 10/12/2007, -11/+23It is true. I don't know how digg stories get to the top, but I can say that it is up to a small number of people.
How can I have hundreds of stories dugg without a reach to the top, yet some stay at 30%. Digg is rigged.
Get rid of the friends portion!!!!!!!! - Nitron, on 10/12/2007, -8/+18"Free speech is democratic. A small group of users controlling the news is a dictatorship." - Taylor
Actually, that's an oligarchy, not a dictatorship. - Anpheus, on 10/12/2007, -3/+11I'm digging this for one, and only one reason. I don't necessarily agree this entirely a "Right Wing Conspiracy."
But the fact is, Digg is currently set up so you can bury articles a lot more easily than you can bring them to the top. A minority of users can report an article as lame, as inaccurate, &c. and the majority can disagree, and the minority gets their way. There is no way to contradict the negative actions of these users. I think the 'bury' story button should be replaced with a small table, something that displays how many people believe a story is inaccurate, and a button to disagree / agree. The same for all the others. As long as people are allowed to vote yes AND no, then we can help to eliminate bias by a minority of users. But as it is, it's ridiculously easy to mark a story negatively. - nstanosheck, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10There are both liberals and conservatives doing this. In the end, I am sure it will all even out.
- eridius, on 10/12/2007, -9/+16"She basically calls us digg users unemployed losers that surf the internet all day. What a nazi piece of *****."
Yeah! Some of us are *employed* losers who surf the internet all day! - dmh11686, on 10/12/2007, -5/+12More whining, I thought digg was supposed to be a social site where the people vote the top stories and that's whats happening.
Just now there are some right leaning stories and some users can't stand to here differing opinions. I have been on digg ever since Kevin first posted it on his blog and I often digg and submit Michelle's stories. I try to be fair with left leaning articles if they are accurate I don't mark them because I know they have just as much of a right on digg as other articles. When digg 3.0 first came I felt as if a wave of left leaning stories came on digg and some balance was needed. Michelle added buttons to her site and people dugg her stories other sites do it also. Get over it.
Now let me get back to reading the IBM article. - lostmyleggins, on 10/12/2007, -6/+12TerrorByte64 is right, we should censor anything we don’t want to see.
- mcflynnthm, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9I'm glad someone else knows words.
- LoungeActx, on 10/12/2007, -6/+12I don't know, but I think the comment dan2 posted with a post from her blog is quite disturbing. I'm all for peoples' opinions to be heard in a democratic manner, but when you make a public call for your listeners to "Bury" articles that you don't agree with, that's crossing a line.
If you don't agree with the article don't digg it, or post a comment explaining why you don't agree with it. Use the service like it was intended. - dan2, on 10/12/2007, -5/+10Agreed, I have no problems with them submitting their articles but burying others with another viewpoint is ridiculous.
- TexasRainmaker, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7"These are people who claim to want to protect voting rights?"
For felons, illegal aliens and the dead. - Cardiakke, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7Those right-wing Digg users must be the ones using those black helicopters. Oh, and they also use those mind-controlling radio waves. But I'm safe with my tinfoil hat! :-)
- borninda818, on 10/12/2007, -5/+9did you notice that this has 59 diggs and is not front page. does this have anything to do with the digg mafia?
- tuna1, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6"TerrorByte64 is right, we should censor anything we don’t want to see."
Wow I hope you're being sarcastic.
You can, please see the "digg" button next to each story, thats how you censor what you don't want to see - you don't digg it, thats one less vote it has to make it to the front page. Digg is about bringing democracy to the news, not censoring anything for the mass; thats why we have editors and politicans. I don't know what kind of libertarianism you subscribe to, but it seems very contradicting to its core value. - borninda818, on 10/12/2007, -4/+877...this is ridiculous
- violenceworker, on 10/12/2007, -6/+10Can't we just ban anything from her site from reaching digg. I know they can ban certain addresses, why not a whole domain?
Read: "W-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-H!
Censorship, it's what the left is all about.
VW - Nation, on 10/12/2007, -9/+13SPAM -- just like the crappy spam you, taylorhayward , put in every front page article around the time you, taylorhayward, posted your original article.
Are there groups who push their agenda on Digg? YES! and they are from all kinds of groups from defiant fields of interests including, but not limited to:
apple/mac/sony/nintendo/soccer/liberal/conservative/enviromental/capitalist/
and if a group is not pushing it ... it is simply because there are not enough of them on the site yet.
My question to you, taylorhayward, is are you going to do the same research on all those liberal posts or the environmental posts? - AmericanViking, on 10/12/2007, -8/+12CryCryCry...
It is all you freakin liberals know how to do, VERY accurately.
Freakin children with an internet access...
Ever notice these punk little libs always want to censor either Michelle M. or Ann Coulter, it's because they both can kick their azzes mentally and physically.
Jerry's Dead
Phish sucks
Geta Job
Malkin Rules - DaMav, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6"Can't we just ban anything from her site from reaching digg. I know they can ban certain addresses, why not a whole domain?"
More inspiring "Freedom of Speech" talking points from the left? roflmbo These are people who claim to want to protect voting rights? - smurf1337, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6And that's a bad thing?
- Nation, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5that is how the system is designed and why John C. Devorak (sp?) said that the whole digg system is flawed. He had a large article about this simple flaw.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3You sir, are an ass.
- TexasRainmaker, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5Oh my God, the vast right wing conspiracy has gone high-tech! Now if we can somehow "force" John Kerry, Al Gore and Ted Kennedy to get virtual blow jobs, our mission will be complete. Our mission to take over the world and kick small puppies is almost completed. Thank you, Bill Gates.
http://www.texasrainmaker.com - dan2, on 10/12/2007, -17/+19This is an organized campaign to try to push their BS.
http://michellemalkin.com/archives/005549.htm - yevkasem, on 10/12/2007, -5/+7i have no idea who michelle malkin is, but i also dugg your story as lame. it doesn't matter who submits a news story, this isn't a popularity contest. as long as stories are being submitted the system is fine, some people have larger profiles than others, so "their" version gets to the front page instead.
seriously, you come of as a 12 year old crying. - Pablo4200, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4They let non-leftists vote here? THIS IS AN OUTRAGE!
Only moonbats love puppies and rainbows and islamofascists! Leftism is love, except for when it's killing a few hundred million people. But it's rude to point that last part out. :-) - pseudotsuga, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5I wonder if Digg wouldn't be better if you could only Digg UP, and not Digg DOWN. That might be a better measure of what the "popular" stories were.
But then again, why should I care what the "popular" stories are? Popular only means that certain people (often of different taste, expertise, experiences, and agendas than me) like something. It isn't a rating of quality, credibility, or even accuracy.
Digg can't rate those things very well. - awcpa, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3For the record, I don't automatically digg every article on Michele Mal kin's blog, only those I feel are worthy of additional consideration.
- Bodacious, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5@ LoungeActx
"She basically calls us digg users unemployed losers that surf the internet all day. What a nazi piece of *****."
No, not basically. You took that quote out of context. Read the whole thing:
"Other commenters think it's because most conservative Internet users/blog readers have day jobs/family life away from the computer, while the Kos Kidz and Kompany surf all day on and off the clock. Is that true? I don't know." - uttles, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1So, it's ok for the radical leftists who have been ruling digg for the past few months to censor anything right wing, but it's not ok for right wingers to post right wing articles?
Interesting sense of "fair and balanced" you moonbats have. I love how interested in freedom you are. - balognytts, on 10/12/2007, -11/+12Not even an oligarchy. While I think the Digg method can be improved, I can also choose never to visit this site. Not oligarchy.
- Hawk2007, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2lol, I know what you mean. actually though, I think Michelle Malkin's calling out the left wing sentiment on this site take the cake though.
It's up to like 600 digs, 200 comments and isn't frontpaged anywhere. It's not even listed as a top stories this week in the Political Opinion section. - Twango, on 10/12/2007, -5/+6Gosh, mob rule ... *just* like Wikipedia!!!
- ChaimRubin, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4I never saw so much kvetching in all my life. The Left only wants to promote free speech when it's their own speech. You know, cause, they know whats best for us. What a crock, if this is how digg works, this is how digg works. You don't like that the Right side of the Internet is using this too now also? Get make another site. Quit, like you guys always do.
"I Dugg this Story Before I Dugg Against It" - threeddd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0@Nation
I think you have him, taylorhoward, pegged. Great post about his, taylorhowards, likely motives..... errr taylorhoward. Sorry, it just really didn't feel complete without that last one. :-) - AmericanViking, on 10/12/2007, -5/+5Lmfao, you are a fool. You have no one on the Left neither WILLING nor ABLE to be in a debate with Malkin.
- Nation, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3"More whining, I thought digg was supposed to be a social site where the people vote the top stories and that's whats happening. "
Digg 3.0 - dan2, on 10/12/2007, -8/+8First of all, "a few people" shouldn't be able to bury a submission with +100 diggs and second this isn't a conspiracy, it's a fact.
- thenativeraver, on 10/12/2007, -29/+29Cry me a river.
- Rooster50, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3the other thing I would note, if you want to exclude high traffic sites from participating, then you could exclude most every high traffic site, whatever the so called political preference. Then you could call yourself DU or maybe some right wing blog. So what is Diggs then?
- Pellucid, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Just like Democracy, eh? Haha.
- infidel4life, on 10/12/2007, -8/+7"A small group of users may be controlling parts of Digg"
That's the *lamest* conspiracy theory ever.
;-) - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0That's because liberals aren't fair and balanced. They are arrogant, control freaks, who truly believe, it's okay for them (whatever they do), but it's not okay for anybody else.
In short, elitists. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -7/+6For this being in the technology section it sure seems to have attracted a group of political fruit cakes.
Anyone with half a brain knows politics is the disease ruining this country and it's the no brainers that need only a red/blue choice or their little pea brains will have to work. - threeddd, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Now do you suppose Taylor had enough foresight to know that, by posting this all over the place, he actually became a Michelle Malkin story? Good job Taylor. With more liberals like you, the 06 elections are in the bag for Republicans.
- borninda818, on 10/12/2007, -4/+3lol, this should win the award for most comments on non-frontpage article.
- tratch, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2omg teh rite wing is out 2 get u!
- RogerSnowden, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2Actually, this system is not even an oligarchy. It appears to be pretty close to pure democracy. Of course, as our founding fathers pointed out, a pure democracy is basically mob rule.
Taylor thinks this is suppression of new, but none of this is really news. It's some web site / popularity contest thing. BFD.
Still, there are apparently more of us than them. Interesting. - BlindIrishman, on 10/12/2007, -6/+5I will purposely go out of my way to make sure these kinds of stories don't reach the front page.
http://digg.com/users/taylorhayward
Invalid User Provided. I hope you got banned. -
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