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BREAKING- Stop using BREAKING in Your digg Headlines

yourfavoritebloggersfavoritebl… — Seriously diggers, this is getting really annoying. I'm not going to go through and list all the reasons why because we all know them already. Just stop. Please.

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  • thejadedmonkey, on 10/12/2007, -4/+65Dugg for effective use of "BREAKING" in the title
    • canewediggit, on 10/12/2007, -6/+27if it doesn't stop, i'm going to do another post entitled "breaking 2- electric diggaloo"
    • UglieJosh, on 10/12/2007, -3/+38I saw "breaking" in the title so I clicked.
    • leobaby, on 10/12/2007, -11/+4A friend of mine got the dvd Breaking 2 for christmas. He made us all watch it when we went to his house.
    • Azap, on 10/12/2007, -10/+3hypocrite
    • av4rice, on 10/12/2007, -9/+1The use of "BREAKING" was so good in this story that I propose we use it in every Digg story!
    • saikhan, on 10/12/2007, -9/+4A better title would have been

      BREAKING: The Habit
    • Porsche944, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1Dugg but I think "Amazing Breaking News Story must see!" would have gotten the message across much better.
    • drewskiMD, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Just don't digg anything with "breaking" in the headline. Anything that truly is "breaking" will in all liklihood have multiple stories posted within minutes, so just digg the one that doesn't have that in the headline.
    • aegis9975, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12People should stop using all capital letters and exclamation marks in their headlines in general.

      example:
      AWESOME WEBSITE - The Internet Anagram Server
      HUGE MAC OSX APP LIST!
    • LordSpam, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4I made one of these about a year ago. Congrats on getting it to the front page. It is seriously annoying.
    • sideshowRAHEEM, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3I dugg this because I thought this was going to be a story about the hit movie from 1984 "BREAKIN'"
      http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086998/
      Probably the best movie about break dancing ever.
    • richfuel, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Let's also ban the phrase "TITLE SAYS IT ALL"!
  • CraigB12, on 10/12/2007, -14/+6I'm in ur diggz, trying to get to the front pagez
  • ejstacey, on 10/12/2007, -2/+26It makes sense. By the time it hits the front page it isn't BREAKING anymore, usually.
  • foxhaze, on 10/12/2007, -10/+3Shoot yourself.
  • Garage81, on 10/12/2007, -12/+6Breaking earlier than paris hilton's hymen..
  • dhulser, on 10/12/2007, -9/+3BREAKING- Stop using BREAKING in Your digg Headlines

    canewediggit canewediggit submitted, made popular 1 minute ago (yourfavoritebloggersfavoritebl…)


    Woah! made popular 1 minute ago! this really is breaking news!
  • UltimaNut, on 10/12/2007, -12/+2Lame
  • galaxie, on 10/12/2007, -5/+4In your search you may want to try searching by TITLE instead of title AND description. so that your results aren't as over emphasized....
    • DevilDogs, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Searching just the title returned only 6 pages, and of those, there were 23 that had the word "breaking" used in a different manner (groundbreaking, breaking the bank, etc). That leaves about 65 stories with the word 'Breaking' in the title. Remove the dups, and you're left with something closer to 60. A far cry from 150. Most of those were actually breaking news, but I hardly consider "Nailing jello to a wall: impossible" as "Breaking News!"
  • Anisty, on 10/12/2007, -16/+3you talentless f**k stop putting breaking in headlines!
  • saikhan, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12Its happening right now??? I must digg this for the sake of fast reliable news!!!
  • Ujjay, on 10/12/2007, -5/+7Subconsciously, I clicked on this digg, without reading anything but breaking. Using BREAKING is annoying, but it works.
  • Peynis, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13other words not to use: AWESOME; HUGE; ADDICTING; AMAZING; BEST; ULTIMATE; and so on...

    • unitedstatians, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I've used ULTIMATE several times, sheez, now i'll have to rethink it
  • Maggette, on 10/12/2007, -1/+24Please also stop crap like "Please digg this up!" in the description.
  • kaffein, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Should have linked to this "sort" in his blog:
    http://digg.com/search?s=breaking&submit=Search§ion=news&type=title&area=all&age=7&sort=new
  • animefx, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2Forgive the non-sequiter, but does anyone remember NEC's old slogan "NEC breaking through"?

    My dad used to get computer related swag and he gave me a black NEC ballcap that said just that. Back in those days it wasn't "cool" to be a geek.
  • weside, on 10/12/2007, -5/+2DIGG THIS TO 10 MILLION DIGGS.

    I've been thinking about making one of these after I saw the stupid BREAKING: Guitar Hero II on Wii!

    The only time BREAKING is warranted is for a national tragedy or international event.

    Stop it.

    I love the topic creator.
  • pirana0, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6SHATTERING!
  • WiLLGT09, on 10/12/2007, -6/+3is this really that big of a deal?
  • Anisty, on 10/12/2007, -7/+1but does it break....?
  • CalipsoII, on 10/12/2007, -6/+5From TFA: "Seriously diggers, this is getting really annoying. I'm not going to go through and list all the reasons why because we all know them already. Just stop. Please."

    So... basically, you made this blog post so that you'd have something to put in the URL field on the Submit Story page. Honestly, I would have been happier if you'd just have pointed it to Gmail and left your subject the same. At least then when I clicked on it I'd be able to check my email instead of wanting my 3 seconds back.

    reported as lame.
  • SpeedingSkills, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1Victim of his own success! Now should we all have a pop 'coz he used 'Breaking'?
  • infowar, on 10/12/2007, -8/+3Shut UP! who are you to control digg, don't be mad cause your BREAKING story didn't hit the frontpage.
  • Servekaos, on 10/12/2007, -4/+3Since Canewediggit used BREAKING twice in the headline, does that make him a repeat offender?
  • Eldorian, on 10/12/2007, -6/+6I'm sick of digg posts of people bitching about what's being said/submitted on digg that hit the front page. This isn't a ***** message board.
  • bowels, on 10/12/2007, -6/+2If there is anything worse than using "BREAKING" once in a digg headline, it is using it twice, as is the case in this stupid post.

    Your life must be absent of truly annoying things if you have the time to care about this.
  • Anisty, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1in soviet russia, breaking breaks... no no, that doesn't work

    *backs off slowly then runs til out of view*

    *single gunshot is heard, almighty scream and thud follows*
  • twiny3, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2words like "OFFICIAL", "CONFIRMED", and "RUMOR" need to be added to that list.
    • unitedstatians, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1WHat also should be banned "XXX", "PLEASE digg me", "GOATSE"
  • blahtastic, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2Half of those searches aren't even appropriate uses of breaking. This seems like a case of "kwitcherbitchen" to me. Granted it's annoying, but freaking get over it. Sheesh. I mean they're only learning it from local news channels anyway. If they didn't report the most recent car wreck or house fire as breaking at the beginning of each broadcast just so they had something that sounded like a big deal...
  • kidc, on 10/12/2007, -5/+4BREAKING: Submitter needs hose to wash sand out of vagina!

    People are digging stories despite your personal objections on what can and cannot be allowed in the headline. Here's a hint, you can digg down stories you don't like, just like I'm going to do to yours because it is lame.
  • patik, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2I'd also like see people stop using "photos" or "pics". If your story is about something that needs to be seen (i.e. "new giraffe/skunk hybrid found in Bronx Zoo") but does *not* have photos, please find a link that does; if no photos exist, then just mention it in the summary. This isn't annoying so much as anti-functional (if that's a word). A lot of submissions are redundant, e.g. "Amazing Panorama of Big Tall City (PHOTO)".
  • roberto_deneero, on 10/12/2007, -5/+2BREAKING - I am going to comment right this very minute on the overuse of BREAKING in Digg BREAKING stories!

    While BREAKING stories may be BREAKING at the time the BREAKER is BREAKING the story, once a few minutes pass it is no longer BREAKING anymore, thus it become BROKEN. BREAKING unBROKEN BREAKING news is a good way to BREAK new news that is just BREAKING; however, once BROKE, it becomes BROKEN and therefore is no longer BREAKING.

    BREAKING - I'm done now.
  • roywaits, on 02/02/2008, -5/+3buried for hypocrisy
  • poonaka, on 10/12/2007, -5/+4lame
  • No13Baby, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1At least we haven't fully transitioned to the New York Post style punny headlines. We'll get there someday.
  • canewediggit, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1apologies for not including more accurate search results in the blog entry, but i wasn't trying to make a time consuming scientific posting about the use of breaking, just looking to prove a point and get the message out.

    unfortunately, as this was immediately ripped off the front page, the trend will most likely continue........
  • SimonGray, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2"Isn't enough enough?"

    Enough is ENOUGH. I've had it with these ***** BREAKINGs in these ***** HEADLINES!
  • ZeroVector, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1BROKEN NEWS! Let's face it, by the time it gets posted it has already happened.
  • TecHeavy, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1SO ***** WHAT!!! Just read the damn story people. Just because someone puts BREAKING in front of the title of the story should not make you cry. So please stop crying like little punks.
  • DarKnight90, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1This isn't news.
  • BlackOp, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Add "the best ____ you will see all ____" to the list.
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