What is Digg?111 Comments
- cerealjynx, on 12/31/2007, -0/+70I don't even know those guys.
I just come here for the articles, really. - FreeBadAdvice, on 12/31/2007, -2/+49People really "work hard" to build an e-reputation? Excuse me while I clean the spittle off of my monitor from my gale-force guffaw. I can't even remember the first letter of the user who submitted this story.
- WShadow, on 12/31/2007, -0/+23They get lots of votes because they have lots of fans that watch what they submit. And, well, they submit stuff that is at least "good", even if not always "great".
- Duilen, on 12/31/2007, -3/+24I certainly follow a lot more geek/god in my daily live than traditional celeb/gods.
- DannoSpeaks, on 12/31/2007, -1/+21Social Rock Stars??? HAHHHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHHHAHAH HAHAHAH cough HAHHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHHAHHA. That is all.
- Mononuclear, on 12/31/2007, -0/+18I don't read/know the user name of anyone who submits a story. I haven't added anyone to my friend's list. I digg stories based on the content of the story not who submitted it. I don't watch certain users to see what they submitted.. I don't try and trade diggs with people. That is how crap gets to the front page. People who digg stories only because a friend submitted it, or because they promised someone a reciprocal digg, not because the story is actually good. Fortunately the crap that sometimes makes its way to the front page for those reasons is soon buried off the front page by people who digg based on the article and not the submitter.
- MikeFallopian, on 12/31/2007, -0/+15Considering they spend so much time at the computer submitting content, I think "anti-social rock stars" might be a better name.
- radicaldementia, on 12/31/2007, -0/+13Most of the top users got so high before digg got really big. Back when I still submitted, all you really had to do was just submit articles regularly, like 4-5 a day, and eventually you'd get a steady stream of promoted articles. It only took a few months for me to rack up 100 front-page stories, and all I did was regularly submit science articles, no massive friends list or spamming. Things are different now and digg took a lot of steps to diminish the power of the top diggers, consequently I think the quality in promoted stories began to drop around the same time.
- nano19, on 12/31/2007, -3/+16Im glad that the Top Digg Users submit interesting content, most of the time. Although I have always wondered why theres gets many diggs? Are they just awesome in finding content or do they post stuff from other social sites like DIGG?
- piratearggghhh, on 12/31/2007, -0/+11Being a "social rock star" is like winning the special olympics...
- mehan, on 12/31/2007, -1/+12these "social rock stars" are basement-dwelling, acne-ridden, pale, overweight virgin nerds, whose REAL social life includes a fleshlight and endless lonely nights.
- cococooky, on 12/31/2007, -0/+11I am the same, who really cares how it gets popular. Half of the stuff I digg never gets to the front page anyway.
- Aggaman, on 12/31/2007, -0/+11It replaces the sex they aren't having.
- Kamael, on 12/31/2007, -1/+11What's the use of being a "social rock star" if you don't get chicks, nor money (ok, al least not huge amounts of it)?
- mrbbad, on 12/31/2007, -0/+10There are "popular" people on the Internets, sure, and they have followings in their particular mediums for whatever reason. Personally, I have never noticed who submits stories to Digg - and I really don't care as well.
I think though that part of this isn't a social rockstar persona, but instead a laziness persona (in terms of sites like Digg and such), it is simply easier to focus attention and effort on select persons/groups for your content fixes rather than look through everyones random submissions. And the buddy-buddy system kicker for getting your own stories noticed.
Personally I think Digg was a unique success, but I look forward to someway, somehow, some-sort of less centralized buddy-buddy system; perhaps a reason why I enjoy Stumble so much, actually... - thatsmyaibo, on 12/31/2007, -3/+13I think the Digg system sucks. It used to be diverse then a handful of the people who think digg couldn't live without them blitz this site with a story every 5 minutes and we are stuck reading what THEY think is interesting. ***** it. This site gets worse by the day and I was reading it when it was a tech site while working at G4 with Kevin Rose.
- notque, on 12/31/2007, -0/+9I think I'm a digg folk star. Folk has stars right....
- morningmatters, on 12/31/2007, -1/+10The "Social Rock Stars" looks to be a time consuming job. I am a fan of some top digg users and each of them digg dozens if not hundreds of articles a day so that when they submit stories they are guaranteed to get hundreds of diggs in return.
- FreeBadAdvice, on 12/31/2007, -0/+8What problem would that be? Not realizing e-rep on a user-submitted news site is totally serious business? Not acknowledging the "hard work" people put into linking a story here? Not remembering your user name?
- nynety, on 12/31/2007, -0/+7It's the friends system. Two people could submit the same story, but the user with more friends will always hit the front page first, even if he's submitting a dupe.
- brinkofdanger, on 12/31/2007, -2/+9one time one of my stories made the front page of the technology section. i told a random woman on the street, and a baby just fell out of her. i have no idea how it happened.
*insert obligatory ron paul pump-up* - RavagesOfTime, on 12/31/2007, -0/+7Welcome to the Internet.
- NoStoppingUs, on 12/31/2007, -0/+7is there any benefit to being one of these "social rock stars"? other than being a "social rock star", how does that help you in, you know, real life?
- joegibes, on 12/31/2007, -0/+7What's weird is that I'll submit something pretty sweet, and it'll get like three diggs. Then a few days later, someone else will submit the same thing, and it'll hit front page. What gives?
- inactive, on 08/11/2008, -0/+7STOP POSTING STUPID *****, PIZZLER, YOU ATTENTION WHORE.
There. I said it. - a3r0, on 12/31/2007, -1/+7I don't even look at who submits things
- thatsmyaibo, on 12/31/2007, -0/+6It's about who has more friends than better stories now. This is the myspace of 'news' now. The 'democracy' of digg is kickstarted by the submitter's friends and then the rest is up to general users. There should be a limit of how many stories one can post per week or something. There have been times where one user has 3 stories on the front page at a time and that is hardly because of the story content.
To call these people rock stars or gods is off the mark. They are just relaying other people's information - plato1123, on 12/31/2007, -0/+6The digg system is a retarded joke... a handful of users control digg with medicore content... you're not the first to notice
- Hoxie, on 12/31/2007, -2/+8A select few "own" digg. You know, the digg "mafia". They basically control what gets to the front page. They are all connected, and alert each other about stories they've submitted. Each person on the "mafia" has second level friends who digg the story, and the second level has friends who digg the story, etc. When the story hits the front page, the story gains diggs by itself.
It's not bad or anything, just interesting. - shadows88, on 12/31/2007, -0/+5Social rock stars? I have three words for you: GET A LIFE
- MindTrigger, on 12/31/2007, -0/+5I don't even pay attention to who posts ***** here. The information is either good, or it's not. The submitter is just some douche who lives to feed us information. Good for them!
- Wartz, on 12/31/2007, -0/+5at least you could sell the gold medal you won at the SO.
- blackgrape, on 12/31/2007, -0/+5"Social rock stars"? Not one of those words describe the story-submitting-virgin-nerd-fest.
Digg it down, spotty virgin boys. - betterth, on 12/31/2007, -1/+6God damnit, that's going to get old fast.
- unrealfan, on 12/31/2007, -0/+4decent story, but remember they're using outdated data on that 56% stat. the story is from 7/20/06
- Petzke, on 12/31/2007, -0/+4I think they are a problem. Anytime a regular user submits content (a lot of the time actually original content), it goes nowhere and is seen by no one.
- hardwickj, on 12/31/2007, -0/+4No sir, there would be your problem. Real life trumps e-life. For the select few (you) who don't get that, well, they are just bitter.
- LetsGoHokies, on 12/31/2007, -0/+4I can't say that I have ever noticed who submitted a story.
Do you get money or something for submitting stories? Am I missing something here? - naturemade, on 12/31/2007, -1/+4Best comment so far and the one I most agree with.
- VileTimes, on 12/31/2007, -0/+3Folks like to feel important and a significant number of them are using the internet to satiate this desire. MMORPGs have capitalized on this since Everquest. WoW and sites like Facebook and Digg have subscribed to the same winning formula and who can blame them?
Personally, I think it's important to remember that the internet is a tool, not to enlarge the circle of influence of your ridiculous e-persona, but to help you learn and work better. Forgetting that makes one prone to the rockstar-isms mentioned in this article.
Wanna be a rockstar? Learn how to play an instrument and get on stage (a lot). Even if you suck at the xylophone because you only caught half of the PDF entitled "Howto: Get Chicks With A Thin Piece Of Wood Between Your Lubricated Fingers" before the server went *****-up after a digg effect, at least you'll have actually *done* something and chances are that you might actually have spoken to a woman or two in the process.
Sounds kooky, but it's true. - naturemade, on 12/31/2007, -0/+3It doesn't take a genius (or even watching submitters) to realize that almost every story that hits the digg front page now follows a particular theme.
- RealJimShady, on 12/31/2007, -1/+4You can't just tack "Rock star" onto something to somehow make it cool.
Perhaps the statistics also might read: "58% of the front page DIGG stories are submitted by people who have too much time on their hands". - cococooky, on 12/31/2007, -0/+3And I might add that appears to be the same for any digger, example Zaibatsu has 144 friends, has given 261 diggs in last 48 hours, His submissions get about 40-100 diggs unless they go popular, but he has 3270 fans - which I am sure make up a large proportion of the diggs he gets before a story makes the front page.
- WiseWeasel, on 12/31/2007, -1/+4I would imagine the good ones get paid for driving traffic to sites on occasion...
- cococooky, on 12/31/2007, -0/+2I usually find my 'friends' articles are of interest. Having said that, do you think the top diggers, who digg about 100 stories a day or more, are reading every single story they digg?
- solid12345, on 12/31/2007, -0/+2Social Rock Stars are like Guitar Heros, both wannabes with no chicks.
- cococooky, on 12/31/2007, -2/+4I generally digg all my friends submissions, but the two articles I submitted got dugg by 6 friends, so in my case only some friends return diggs.
- Skanadian, on 12/31/2007, -0/+2***** signed. So sick of his ***** articles.
- KMye, on 12/31/2007, -0/+2Just honestly curious: do you understand the idea at least used to be that you only digg submissions, whether they're friends' or not, if you like them?
- inactive, on 12/31/2007, -0/+2Idiots with nothing else to do all day.
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