What is Digg?174 Comments
- iwanttodiggthis, on 10/11/2007, -101/+955If you don't want me to Digg your story, then don't put a "Digg This" button on it. Honestly, the nerve of some people.
- MrBabyMan, on 10/11/2007, -23/+804Dugg for "And btw, Digg user "Iwanttodiggthis," can you stop submitting almost every story we have?" hehehe
- iwanttodiggthis, on 10/11/2007, -30/+343Why would they put a button there if they expected nobody to click it?
- robbh66, on 10/11/2007, -37/+253"Why would they put a button there if they expected nobody to click it?"
The same reason they put lots of buttons on elevators. Just because they're all there doesn't mean you have to hit them all. - ahawks, on 10/11/2007, -1/+191My favorite is when digg points to engadget, which links to gizmodo, which links to the original site.
- TheKricket, on 10/11/2007, -17/+207@iwanttodiggthis
out of the last 15 stories youve submitted - 11 are from gizmodo -
you know whats lame? sitting around waiting for someone to post stories on a blog and then submitting EVERY SINGLE ONE to digg - regargless of the content
lame to the nth degree... - robbh66, on 10/11/2007, -6/+168Take a hint, engadget!
- saralk, on 10/11/2007, -10/+152So instead, we'll just get blogs hosted on dreamhost that go down after 4 diggs?
- crackedplastic, on 10/11/2007, -7/+132***** yes. Kudos for Gizmodo for taking the initiative for original content.
Now, if only the following would follow Gizmodo's lead:
- Engadget
- Autoblog
- Engadget
- Filmwad/Tubewad/Whateverwad
- Engadget
- Filmschoolrejects
- Engadget
- Joystiq
- Consumerist - TVisdoG, on 10/11/2007, -7/+105Let me be the first to admit ignorance and say that I have absolutely no ***** idea what this article is about.
- Dolomite, on 10/11/2007, -10/+106hahaha dugg for someone finally telling iwanttodiggthis to basically get a life. lol
- franksmith, on 10/11/2007, -4/+89I think it is wonderful that "iwanttodiggthis" has finally found something to do with his life.
- canewediggit, on 10/11/2007, -10/+91bra-f/ing-vo. i wish more sites/users would take this to heed.
- FerrisYJ, on 10/11/2007, -2/+69amen. I hate reading a tagline, clicking on the link and seeing a blog about the story...
just send me to the story/picture/video, i don't need your recap or your opinion, thanks. - TheKricket, on 10/11/2007, -5/+68i dont think they said "can you stop digging our stories" - they said "can you stop SUBMITTING" the stories...
- Ireland, on 10/11/2007, -5/+64Much respect to Gizmodo for this, they actually had the balls to reduce their traffic for the sack of quality.
- Hipple, on 10/11/2007, -4/+56it took me a little while to figure out what "bra-f/ing-vo" was supposed to mean. My first impulse was that it was some sort of language that I didn't understand. I had to sound it out to get the intended effect. That slash really threw off my game.
- digidigg, on 10/11/2007, -10/+60can you say......engadget?
- airiox, on 10/11/2007, -5/+49Dugg out of spite. It's one of the few blogs I visit everday and I'm sick of seeing Gizmodo articles on the front page.
- orelses, on 10/11/2007, -1/+36I've been saying this for a while, digg needs a top 5 related articles area above the comments somewhere. This way people can see other better related or originating articles about a topic.. articles that may have not gotten the luck of the draw with number of diggs.
- jessicass, on 10/11/2007, -3/+33Dugg because everyone needs their 15 e-minutes.
- robbh66, on 10/11/2007, -4/+33Engadet is by far the worst thief of content ever and can suck my peg leg.
- robbh66, on 10/11/2007, -1/+25The entire idea of the story is apparently lost on you.
- AZTriGuy, on 10/11/2007, -1/+25And so, by digging this, you help get it to the front page . . . I'm confused :)
- championchap, on 10/11/2007, -1/+24@gafasiesornivek (#7167299)
So you didnt actually read the article then? - ToadLeg, on 10/11/2007, -14/+37this is a joke right? blogspaming an article against blogspam...
- philz, on 10/11/2007, -7/+27@Arkonnan
No only that, did you see that he also forgot Engadget? - redstarlanding, on 10/11/2007, -9/+26oh, the irony!
- Arkonnan, on 10/11/2007, -9/+26@crackedplastic
You forgot Engadget. - championchap, on 10/11/2007, -2/+18@someguy9 (#7167405)
Probably everyone that read the post checked that immediately afterward. - mikew101, on 10/11/2007, -13/+28@dolomite
Anyone on digg including myself needs to get a life - ippersiel, on 10/11/2007, -1/+15Agreed. I read LifeHacker on my own, then come to Digg to see almost all stories repeated here.
- 0ceanic, on 10/11/2007, -2/+15im digging this because more sites should follow this lead.
gizmodo just jumped up a notch in my book. - robbh66, on 10/11/2007, -2/+15Yeah. It's called "he has no life."
- BLAM8, on 10/11/2007, -3/+15"Which means the comment by Gizmodo was quite nasty and aimed at actually boosting their Digg traffic, not decreasing it."
Geekchic: Uh, No.
You're somehow overthinking it, and yet not thinking enough. - robbh66, on 10/11/2007, -2/+14Yes, but they only want advertising revenue for their own work.
If you can't see why some people don't want to steal the revenue from content other people created then you're going to make a great swindler someday. - estvir, on 10/11/2007, -3/+14Don't forget Kotaku and Destrucoid (Whatever the hell the spelling is). Oh, and I can't believe you freaking missed Engadget, I mean, come on.
- NinjaBoy, on 10/11/2007, -1/+11Someone should copy this site and submit it again.
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but with more ads, oh and after the first 1,000 users we are going to need it to crash - Iconwolf, on 10/11/2007, -2/+12"just send me to the story/picture/video, i don't need your recap or your opinion, thanks."
I do admit it would be nice if most people just linked to or added RSS feeds to most of the popular sites themselves, but one of the main reasons I like sites such as Digg, Slashdot, or Techdirt is not so much the overview/recap as it is the comments (OK, yes a lot of them are weak most of the time, but you can find some really classic one-liners and some excellent discussions/debates). True, it's annoying for those people who already frequent such forums or who have ADD and just want those sound-bites, but sometimes the commentary can be more important and/or interesting than the actual article. - arnar, on 10/11/2007, -5/+15Yes.. we did. It's right there, just scroll to top - just below "Submitted", prefixed with "Submitter:", see it?
- Baconn, on 10/11/2007, -1/+10@robbh66
"The same reason they put lots of buttons on elevators. Just because they're all there doesn't mean you have to hit them all."
You just saved me a good half hour off my commute! - BLAM8, on 10/11/2007, -2/+10@notyavgkt
Jealous of what? This doesn't make sense. - PRlME, on 10/11/2007, -5/+13@y iwanttodiggthis you can digg that bit of content cause its original content
- HomieG6189, on 10/11/2007, -3/+11Dugg for irony haha
- BLAM8, on 10/11/2007, -2/+10BTW, Engadget and Gizmodo have tons of original reporting that people don't credit them for. That is as much of a problem as it is when the sites get credit for ***** that isn't theirs. Comes down to thinking before digging.
- webmasterjoe, on 10/11/2007, -5/+12@hotm: "Uh, if you notice, they are put on in lumps. Its not like hes there pressing F5 all the time and just waiting for a new article. Why you gotta be such a dick?"
Some of us DON'T notice the timing of how new stories are added to websites. We choose not to devote all of our time to that sort of thing.
And submitting every story from one website to another website is pretty lame. If a person is asked to pick their favorite articles from a list and the person picks "all of them," then that person is has done nothing to help narrow down a large set into a smaller one (which is a big function of Digg).
Calling someone a dick and a douchebag because that person said someone else's actions were lame? I don't think I need to express my opinion of your contribution, but it sounds like you just started learning profanities. Wait until you get to the "F's," I think we'll all have a lot of fun. - iwanttodiggthis, on 10/11/2007, -8/+14I only have one account, Ferris. Digg just has that many idiots.
- BLAM8, on 10/11/2007, -2/+8There's a tiny digg submission button to make things easier, but Gizmodo is talking about not using the big yellow badges unless its really new in some way.
- crackedplastic, on 10/11/2007, -1/+6The root of the problem is with submitting. All it takes is a few seconds to see if the Gizmodo/Engadget article is just a paraphrase/clickthrough blurb and submit the source link. That's all.
- robbh66, on 10/11/2007, -3/+7You DO REALIZE that Engadet steals 98% of their content from other sources, right?
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