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Digg User, You Are Worth $2
blogs.zdnet.com — You lousy, freeloading, web 2.0ing, social networking, non-contributing internet user. You ruin everything.
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- flernk, on 10/12/2007, -6/+28Now, when the social networking bubble pops, you can say "I knew that was coming, like, FOREVER ago. Duh"
- sophiaperennis, on 10/12/2007, -1/+69"MySpace is currently generating approximately $2 in revenue per 'friend.'"
Digg is definately worth atleast $3 per digger. Let's not lower our intellectual standards, by comparing ourselves to MySpace. - macewan, on 10/12/2007, -1/+34speak for yourself, I want my $16 by the end of next week or else
- josegutz, on 10/12/2007, -17/+3I heard MySpace just crashed...
- Nobi-Wan, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9Well I guess this article debunks Ted Stevens theory that people see the internet as a "dump truck" and needs to be regulated because it's "a series of tubes." If only 1 in 20 users is actually uploading content and the rest of us are viewing it then nobody's "dumping" anything on the internet. It's a very small minority that adds anything to the internet on a frequent basis.
- wowbagger, on 10/12/2007, -16/+4"Digg is definately worth atleast $3 per digger. Let's not lower our intellectual standards, by comparing ourselves to MySpace."
Oh, now that IS funny. You guys only come here after you're done with myspace anyway.
This place is populated with liberal whining myspace kids that think they are somehow entitled to free movies and music because they can't afford to buy them and contribute to their production costs.
The only difference is around here you don't get the gawdy backdrops, crappy music on page load and terrible spelling.
I lied about the spelling, that's here too.
I don't see much of an intellectual difference between myspace and many digg users. - TeraByteTyrant, on 10/12/2007, -24/+5Digg isnt worth 2 per *****
err digger - mentor972, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2We don't all have the free time to just sit there and "Contriblute" to the site all day.
I bet that the top contributors have LOTS of time on their hands. - Mirag3, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2@Nobi-Wan
I don't know about you, but I'm doing a ton of dumping, especially on the internet. - OBKenobi, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4[quote]I bet that the top contributors have LOTS of time on their hands.[/quote]
I use an army of Chinese MMORPG Gold Farmers to do my posting and submissions for me all over the internet. They really DO work for $2 a day!
Excuse me, I have to go whip one of them for slacking off.
"Keep Digging, fool! Digg!" *Crack* "Digg!"
- sophiaperennis, on 10/12/2007, -1/+69"MySpace is currently generating approximately $2 in revenue per 'friend.'"
- canewediggit, on 10/12/2007, -10/+2212 dollars! i want my 2 dollars!
- mavranos, on 10/12/2007, -57/+16Ha Ha! twoooooo doooooooooooolars........
Was that a "Better Off Dead" reference? Funny - mvnicosia, on 10/12/2007, -50/+18You ski the K-12 dude and girls will go sterile just looking at you!
- RobertsRobe, on 10/12/2007, -47/+17"This mountain is pure SNOW??!!!!"
- aguita, on 10/12/2007, -36/+18Funny how people are modding down the Better off Dead quotes.
"Gee Ricky, Sorry I blew your mom up." - stubadub, on 10/12/2007, -35/+13Wasn't that "Gee Ricky, sorry your mom blew up."?
- BigT4187, on 10/12/2007, -29/+12"Go that way really fast. If something gets in your way ...... turn."
- MindTrigger, on 10/12/2007, -27/+11I just bought a copy of Better Off Dead the other day. One of my favorite 80's movies.
"I've been going to this high school for seven and a half years. I'm no dummy." - jimbonics, on 10/12/2007, -25/+5"Hey Myer, looking good today buddy... lookin' reeeal good."
- titlesaysitall, on 10/12/2007, -23/+52 bucks? I can finds tons of me at the 99 cents store.
- MindTrigger, on 10/12/2007, -28/+16
The truly funny thing about digg.com, is that people actually think other people give a ***** if they are modded down! Oh Nooooes! I knew full well I would get the shovel when I saw the other Better Off Dead posters taking it. Who gives a *****?
And let's be brutely ***** honest here. How many of you open burried comments just to see what the person said that got them modded down? I know I do. - MrBabyMan, on 10/12/2007, -22/+13Now that's a real shame when folks be throwin' away a perfectly good white boy like that.
- JohnCrichton, on 10/12/2007, -16/+2I'd buy that for a dollar!!!!!!
- aptget, on 10/12/2007, -16/+6MOD ME DOWN TOO!
- techiedavid, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8$2 per day?, week?, month? year?
How about a minimum wage standard for the Internet!
- mavranos, on 10/12/2007, -57/+16Ha Ha! twoooooo doooooooooooolars........
- whoatemydigg, on 10/12/2007, -8/+36Digg.com is a service. It is designed to allow people to share webpages and discuss webpages of common interest and it does so using minimum ads and doesnt charge a user fee. If the digg management is able to make a living using this website format then all the power in the world to them I say. "Use the force Kevin Rose"
- godmstr, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8Can you imagion the dupe police on that one
DUPE NO DIG would be the only words spoken for decades - calebegg, on 10/12/2007, -5/+14minimum ads? hmm...1 2 3, yep, 3 google ads. Actually, that's the maximum:
http://www.google.com/support/adsense/bin/answer.py?answer=9735 - srg13, on 10/12/2007, -2/+21But it is a small amount when compared to other sites that have 4 to 6 flashing banners on every page... And Digg's ads are quite discreet and arent in the way of the content. I don't notice them at all anymore. But I guess that's a bad thing for Digg, as it means less money.
- arg553, on 10/12/2007, -4/+10why aren't you using ff or opera and utilizing their ability to block ads?
- JorgeGT, on 10/12/2007, -6/+15Because I actually like the ads! I like hovering them to see the beautiful silver / blue / gray colors...
*Hoovers... hoooovers again...* - chicagobiker, on 10/12/2007, -5/+17The point is they aren't making a living and this whole Web 2.0 nonsense is the same thing as the 1999 .com bubble. It's a bunch of ***** investors are blindly throwing money at pretending there will be this huge windfall. But there won't be. There's no product here. We're all just basking in the goodness of other peoples foolish spending.
It's like some rich kid convinced his dad to buy an amusement park for him and his friends, telling his dad there will be HUGE profit here one day, and dad believes him and buys it. And we all have a great summer riding the rides. Then dad goes, alright, where's my money from selling concessions. And everyone looks at dad and shrugs and says "sorry dude, we don't really like buying concessions, we bring our own, but the free rollercoasters are sweet, can we get 50 more of them?".
There is no such thing as a "service" unless you're paying for it. Ad revenue from these sites does almost nothing to offset their costs. If Digg charged everyone $25 a month you'd all leave and there'd be nothing but crickets chirping here.
My prediction on what will burst this bubble - all the kids go back to school and someone finds something more fun than MySpace which everyone immediately drops and then NewsCorp realizes they just got taken for BILLIONS of dollars and are left with nothing but a really ugly music freeloader site that no one cares about anymore. - MikeMania, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1@calebegg
Is it just me or is 2 out of the 3 ads for Diggnation? - phlux, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6@chicagoBiker
That is totally correct on most accounts. The only sad part is that advertising is a real industry. The revenues made from selling advertising are real and profitable. Why do you think there are so many magazines out there - not because there is so much good content.
Take a look at any magazine marketed towards women. I recently looked through a magazine my wife had - I dont recall which one, but it was a vogue or cosmo or one of those types.
I counted the content pages vs the ad pages. The magazine was almost 200 pages thick.
out of 200 pages of magazine 20 WERE FREACKING CONTENT!!
10%
All the other pages were ads for ***** that women dont need and men shouldnt buy for them. Of those ads at least 1/3rd were for ***** that NO women will buy. Like 25K diamond necklaces, ads for no obvious product at all. etc...
The point you make about the attention shifting from myspace to something else is totally right on - but that doesnt mean that the revenues they are making now arent real monies.
The problem with the social networking space at this time is that it provides a novelty and not a service. Combine a real service that people on a broad scale want to use with the social networking capabilities and you have a retention path. Problem is that real services are much harder to appeal to a broad audience - noveltys spread like wild fire as they are typically attached to, or creations of, pop culture memes.
I see the social networking "utility" as a pop culture meme that is here to stay permanantly. Myspace covers 74% of the market - but they will be hard pressed to have any long term retention unless they do some drastic rearchitecting of their offering, which is not too likely based on the comments of their CEO who said (paraphrased) "as long as we dont muchk with the site, we will be fine"
Every other soc net site is banking on the fact that myspace wont change...
- godmstr, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8Can you imagion the dupe police on that one
- duest, on 10/12/2007, -4/+16If everyone was contributing, we'd have too many users trying to submit stories and the universe would no doubt collapse.
I, for one, do not wish to spend an eternity in limbo wishing that I hadn't been so damn enthusiastic.- benwaterworth, on 10/12/2007, -13/+1and that would be different how?
(wink wink) - duest, on 10/12/2007, -17/+5Are you saying that your wife gets around, wink wink, nudge nudge, know what I mean?
- bobothn, on 10/12/2007, -15/+5dose she like photographs know what I mean, know what I mean,nudge nudge, wink wink, say no more.
- CaptUnderpants, on 10/12/2007, -13/+7Say no more.
- Qazzian, on 10/12/2007, -10/+3Ooo, Suits you sir!
- duest, on 10/12/2007, -10/+7Bah, the Digg crowd isn't yet as cultured(nerdy) as the Slashdot crowd.
Speaking of which, what is the average wind-speed velocity of an unladen swallow... - wirelesshnic, on 10/12/2007, -11/+5An African swallow or a European Swallow?
- foolfromhell, on 10/12/2007, -8/+2African or European?
- foolfromhell, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Also...
http://www.digg.com/tech_news/Estimating_the_Airspeed_Velocity_of_an_Unladen_Swallow_2
On Digg even. not nerds you say.... - acceptab1euname, on 10/12/2007, -4/+3@duest:
It's not that we're *all* uncultured or not nerdy here on digg - it's just that perhaps many of us here have seen the quoted Monty Python sketches before, and found they were more amusing when the original performers were saying those lines, as opposed to somebody posting them as off-topic comments on digg.com. Perhaps others here like myself are simply tired of seeing people posting irrelevant quotes for the nth time.
Here's a tip: quoting the "say no more" sketch might have made me chuckle the first time I saw it, but around the 200th or so time I see it posted in a discussion, it was long past being funny, and so I click the thumbs down button. Problem solved. It's not like people don't read buried comments to see why they got marked down, anyway.
Maybe you should keep the stupid nerdy posts on slashdot where you might get a +3, Funny for your troubles.
- benwaterworth, on 10/12/2007, -13/+1and that would be different how?
- epheterson, on 10/12/2007, -8/+4This insult intrigues me.. I must read on.
- tuxuser, on 10/12/2007, -22/+1lol lame labled as cool if you use windows
- BobOrleans, on 10/12/2007, -6/+7247,891 users x2 = $495,782
- saralk, on 10/23/2007, -6/+17registered members does not equal number of users.
- srg13, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6Also, its 444,809 registered users, as of two days ago. (http://krose.typepad.com/kevinrose/2006/07/calacanis.html)
- kenvibe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1444,809[users] x $2 = $889,618[net revenue] - ??[expenses] = [$$profit$$]
Subtract a couple hundred thousand for operating expenses and you're living pretty well... Not bad at all....
- toastgodsupreme, on 10/12/2007, -14/+7Time to start a Digg sex slave ring.
*puts on pimp hat*- thestorey, on 10/12/2007, -14/+4I will do aything for digg nation citizenship. My daughter ketya can help to....
- saralk, on 10/12/2007, -5/+16MySpace doesn't really compare with Digg. For one thing, I bet digg could command higher advertising prices, since the user base is probably an older, better educated and probably has a bit more money to spend than the average MySpace user.
- rockefeller, on 10/12/2007, -13/+3"better educated"
that reminds me of when I hear a redneck say "gooder" - Grimdotdotdot, on 10/12/2007, -2/+13Do you not read the comments on Digg?
- synaesthesia, on 10/12/2007, -3/+27As great as digg is, it simply cannot compare to Myspace in sheer numbers. Advertisers dont want the 'smart crowd' that you say makes up the average group of diggers. Advertisers want the 'dumbasses' who will blow a paycheck on the newest shiny *desirable thing*.
- mozzer, on 10/12/2007, -3/+16myspace filled with gullible teens with more of a disposable income and a willingness to blow it all. they're far more likely to impulsively waste their cash on CDs, movie tickets, ringtones, name brand clothing, and grillz.
in contrast, the average Digg user will count their pennies, and scrutinize every product detail even before making a purchase. these are the same people that are holding out for 50 cent DRM-free MP3s
now really, who looks more attractive to advertisers? - OBKenobi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Actually, yes, that's true. Those teens have alot of $$$ on worthless garbage. Especially entertainment-oriented garbage. Digg users are not nearly as gullible--except when it comes to gadgets. They'll buy practically any new gadget, even a Zune! No teen would be caught dead with a Zune.
"Look son, I got a Zune! Tell that to your MySpace friends! Ha!"
"Dad, you're such a dork."
- rockefeller, on 10/12/2007, -13/+3"better educated"
- DannoHung, on 10/12/2007, -3/+18Man I hate web pundits.
We should have them all fight to the death, the winner would have to face John Dvorak in mortal combat.
Then we'd squash both of them with a rock.- Palehorse68, on 10/12/2007, -4/+3The problem is that they can't comprehend that not *everything* revolves around "HOW CAN I MAKE MORE MONEY?!?!??????? NEED MONEY!!!!!"
The idea of people contributing for free is mindboggling.
And the really sad thing is that they're saying Myspace is "only" bringing in, like, $200 mil in revenue. ... How terrible - chriskzoo, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6>The problem is that they can't comprehend that not *everything* revolves
>around "HOW CAN I MAKE MORE MONEY?!?!??????? NEED MONEY!!!!!"
Actually, in a business, it basically does - otherwise you go out of business. Digg could not survive if it didn't make money and Kevin would sell it right now if he didn't think he could sell it for more money sometime in the fiture. So yes, it essentially is about "more money." - NJank, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2which is as it should be.
- Palehorse68, on 10/12/2007, -4/+3The problem is that they can't comprehend that not *everything* revolves around "HOW CAN I MAKE MORE MONEY?!?!??????? NEED MONEY!!!!!"
- mutant, on 10/12/2007, -9/+4This is so stoopid.. Digg and Netscape are like One Tree Hill, just a friggin soap opera.
- fireandicefuel, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4hah then what is slashdot in all of this mix?
- Sirocco, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12>> hah then what is slashdot in all of this mix?
Slashdot is 60 Minutes. Established, reliable, but not for people under 30 ;) - Kamaji, on 10/12/2007, -5/+3"Slashdot is 60 Minutes. Established, reliable, but not for people under 30 ;)"
HAHAHAHA! Maybe so, but they sure do act like their 12. - bkemper, on 10/12/2007, -4/+7Like their 12 what? Like their 12 children? That's a big family. Ooooohhhh, maybe you mean "like they're 12", as in "like they are 12 years old"!
- josegutz, on 10/12/2007, -2/+182 dollars? I can't even put a gallon of gas in my car for 2 dollars...
- tawnykw, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9But you could buy a slurpee Mr/Ms 7-Eleven :D
- mouseclone, on 10/12/2007, -9/+7In switching to Linux i have seen more value in contributing to "free" stuff on the web. Before the switch i had to buy MS just had to and when something "free" came along i snagged it up. Now, I relize more than ever that major efforts were put into Linux distros, Digg.com, Wikipedia, and other such sites. I don't care about adds on a website because I use AdBlock from firefox plugins. Personally if a product is good enough it will be what i want when i do a product comparision.
At any rate, a B I G huge "THANK YOU" goes out to all that have contributed to the "free" internet, software, and other projects out there. Maybe others will learn to work hand in hand and continue to improve apon what yall have started. As such my the people contribute to products that they use that are "free". I do with Cedega - Mazgazine1, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8I am still amazed at the amount of people that actually click on adverts on sites... I also get really confused when I hear free sites like Google and Myspace have 'revenue' and even 'profits' when I don't buy or click on anything from these sites...
Hmm. I need to start an adverts site or something and make some money.- mozzer, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3"I am still amazed at the amount of people that actually click on adverts on sites"
Apparently trying to "punch the monkey" is fun.
- mozzer, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3"I am still amazed at the amount of people that actually click on adverts on sites"
- whisperedlie, on 10/12/2007, -4/+4yessss.... up from $1.89. I'm going to the top.
- cromus, on 10/12/2007, -4/+15Digg Users are the true heros of the internet. It's a tough job finding news articles/***** blog entries that other people wrote and then submitting them. How DARE these "social freeloaders" benefit from our hard work!?!?
Honestly I wish half of the current digg users would die in a fiery explosion anyway. "REED MY BLOGLOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!111" - pixelfox, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2the freeloading users? This is the way the world works. I mean, BitTorrent is the ultimate example. People want the fast speed, but they dont want to share their connection _ leechers.
- Murdats, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3just look at non internet business
whats the ratio of fast food business to total consumers, im guessing its nowhere near 1:1, the logic of this article is retarded
- Murdats, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3just look at non internet business
- ShinAkuma, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3My total net worth now is two bucks,sweet.
- DJStunami, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1IMO this guy is an idiot, and has no concept of the "value" of the communities he's trying to monetize.
- DanoG, on 10/12/2007, -8/+0I think I'm worth more than that!
- k3n85, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5I'll donate to TPB before I do myspace ... why else would these services charge nothing if they weren't making money?
- rockingrhino, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1I want my 2 dollars. I want my 2 dollars!
- Zippo, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2Anyone who purposely abuses digg for their own financial gain should strung up by their testicles.
- NJank, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1oooh... loophole! loophole!
- choice, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I guess that gives the ten percent of users who are chicks free reign to rake in the cash. I'll go for that.
- missflibbles, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Yes! Money! I knew being female would pay off someday.
- davesawyer, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Just what is a "contributing user" anyway? There have been plenty of times I've seen an article to submit to digg, but after a quick search, I realize someone has beat me to the punch. And, as someone mentioned earlier, I don't want to get busted by the Dupe Police. I think I'm a contributing user because I digg articles I like and bury ones that deserve it. Not everyone can submit.
- CosmicJustice, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4This is idiotic. Advertisers are paying for the eyeballs, they don't really care what the content is. The content is just a means of getting the eyeballs. And, if you really want to talk about freeloaders, how about the fact that slashdot, digg, netscape, et. al. do not create any content. They just leach off of the content creators by linking to to them.
- toxicredm, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10FTA: "The average YouTube user is watching the content, not generating it..."
Duh... The average person watches TV but they're not all out there in a studio producing shows themselves. - jtjenn, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0I sign up for YouTube, I don't upload videos, but I do other things in my account such as to keep track of my subscriptions and comment.
- docsnavely, on 10/12/2007, -7/+3it has kevin rose's name in it so it must be dugg!
- myrm, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4$2 is an excellent per user revenue stream for these sites. The fact of the matter is it will not cost $2/user to operate these websites, so at $2 head for users to consume the content there isn't a problem. It would be more problematic if all the content was produced by all the users and consumed by only a handful, the revenue is in the consumption of content, not the production.
I find all of these arguments about user generated content being generated by few and consumed by many problematic a bit bizarre. The real issue here, and the aspect of these sites that is changing the content production landscape is how many new people are actually producing content. 35,000 new videos a day, when in history have we been able to see 35,000 new bits of content so quickly and easily every day? When have social networking news sites allowed the intelligence (or stupidity) of the masses to dictate the news that is important. Content production and consumption is slowly but surely becoming decentralized and that can only be good for the industry and consumers (in both the paying for and literally consuming the content senses of the word)
Nothing to see here, ignore the FUD and keep watching the videos, reading the user news and trying to get laid on myspace. These sites aren't going anywhere anytime soon. - hoofarted, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1It says that My Space "Friends" are worth $2.
- LaundroMat, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0I'm still convinced that the cost of trying to squeeze as much money out of something is higher than the revenue created by simply letting things flow. That's why some of these websites (and other projects) actually work out well.
- micro506, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5I'll be expecting a check in the mail.
- somerandomnerd, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6What the hell- I'll take a dozen.
They'd make good christmas presents.
"Oh wow- just what I always wanted. An angry geek!" - greeblesnort, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Digg has ads? Who'da thunk it? I'm pretty sure I've never seen one...
Firefox 4tw!- MiamiGuy, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2You mean adblock ftw
- duest, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0What's ftw? tof the wrescue?
- umbriago, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Oh, just pay the two dollars.
- zerocool786, on 10/12/2007, -9/+0THATS WHY YOU LOSERS SHOULD TRY iZapPoints and get Points for writing news
redeem Points for gift cards.
http://www.izappoints.com - ryanryanryan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Digg is venture capital backed... at some point they have to make money and pay those investors. Whether Digg is "about" money or not, its investors certainly are.
- gravedigg, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Can I get this in stock?
- LLXerxes, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3If they charged money to use sites, MySpace would go out of business because all the 14 year old emo kids aren't allowed to use mommy's credit card. :(
- Murdats, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6"'while more than 35 million videos are viewed daily, only 35,000 are uploaded'" (in reference to youtube)
how is this a bad thing? seriously, who is complaining that there arent 35 million videos uploaded a day? I want to punch them in the face - bobothn, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1how bout this i pay digg $2 a month and they make it so i dont see ads. or make it $7 so i can get acess to rev3 as well.
- Tuscanspeed, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0I'm still thinking user contribution would be much higher if there was no threat of impending lawsuit by big corporate entities.
I blame RIAA/MPAA/USGOV.
Even actual user created content is in danger because someone will see it, buy up some copyright or something and then say it's theirs and sue for it. Kind of like what's going on in the technology sector. - micro506, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Wait, so does this mean that if I stop using digg, Kevin Rose loses $2? Well, Mr. Rose, I think we know who has the upper hand now.
- jaybones1515, on 10/12/2007, -0/+26 million people watched the superbowl, but there were only a handful of people actually playing and producing it. Goddamn fans are such freeloaders..its amazing how the superbowl still exists with all those people just watching and not actually running out on the field and playing.
- NJank, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2yeah, and I hear the clickthrough numbers on the halftime commercials were really low this year.
- oojamaflip2006, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I think the article misunderstood what social-websites really entail. The fact that hundreds of thousands of people dont submit sites to digg, they simply read and vote for the best ones does not mean these 'non-contributing' users are worthless. Digg needs a majority of folks who simply digg up or digg down a story as well as a minority who actually find stories, otherwise it just wouldnt work. Social websites are about harnessing 'the masses' views, opinions and beliefs on submitted content, be it stories, photographs or video and allowing them to contribute such content if they want to. Revenue streams from these types of websites will simply come from traditional sources such as advertising etc.
- shortyjacobs, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Dugg....if only to be considered a non-freeloading, don't really understand web 2.0ing, hate social networking, CONTRIBUTING internet user :-D
- pkacholia, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0$2.00 for giving my $0.02, .....I like the returns on that......sign me up for nickel
- ARamone, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Dvorak was right (crankygeeks.com), the problem with digg.com getting so large is that no one reads all the comments, too many stories, too many comments. I heard on a podcast (wehatetech.com) that digg.com is not a democracy because non-popular thoughts get squashed, interesting concept. To be a true democracy every individual would be able to freely have their opinion heard and not buried whether it was popular or not. I understand there are some asshats out there, but that's practically impossible to completely filter. I like the digg.com system, but I think it is becoming to big to be cognitively informative. This comment for example will get a couple of diggs (probably negative). That will only solidify my point. I wish the little guy, or unpopular thought, would have a chance. End of rant.
- HMTKSteve, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Democracy is just a $5 word for "mob rule"
- InvisibleMan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1While the comments section of a story is nice, digg is a democracy because everyone who is a user, which is free to anyone, can give a vote up or down on any story. If your comment gets dugg down then that is too bad, but its not like people can't see your comments still. In fact sometime I read the dugg down comments just because I can't see them I and I get curious. If you are talking about how a good story is dugg down or ignored when its in the queue, then there is only one thing you can do... Get down in the queue and start digging!
- Geekforlife, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Maybe Digg should go public and the users offered shares
- Talphin, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1I would REALLY love to know how much money MySpace would make in a single day by placing a single Google ad on their site.
the plentyoffish.com guy says he is making $10K a day from Google ads. I can't begin to imagine how much MySpace would make. -
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