What is Digg?278 Comments
- awm4, on 10/12/2007, -15/+163Interesting article but I am know scared what will happen to me if I digg this story?
/* curiously looks around and wonders "Are they watching me now?" */ - stevesearer, on 10/12/2007, -19/+151I hate to say this as I am friends with a couple, but I'm growing weary of Netscape employees making big deals out of stuff that isn't a big deal.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+114I keep getting into trouble :(
- sockpuppets, on 10/12/2007, -28/+120Ethay irstfay uleray ofway onspiracycay ubclay isway otnay otay alktay aboutway onspiracycay ubclay.
- Petronski, on 10/12/2007, -20/+101I'm burying this story to raise my "bury count" so I can be on the cool people list.
- krinthekuz, on 09/16/2008, -10/+69this isn't accurate, i bury way more stories than many of these guys for various reason. check any of my comments. i want to know what unit time they're using.
many of the stories that frontpage are either:
-- blogspam/dupes (alarm clocks, ubuntu, photoshop tutorials, css galleries, and apple announcements)
-- straightup marketing crap (various things to actual sales sites)
-- viral marketing (psp, 24, heroes, and "oh my god, the movie poster clearly showing nipples was denied!")
sure, there are legitimate articles on these topics, but much of it qualifies in those 3 areas, and in a week i'll bury at least 30 stories. either that top 50 picked a single day when i didn't particularly banninate much, or that list is censored. - slowspin, on 10/12/2007, -16/+69"This whole thing is ***** ridiculous, I'm supposedly #13 in the "bury brigade" conspiracy for correctly marking stories as lame, inaccurate and spam."
Comment buried as "lame". - DisposableRob, on 10/12/2007, -1/+49Digg needs a ban/unban Supernova17 button.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+51Digg censors all sorts of stories. They won't actually delete them but they won't show up in search results nor will they show up in the front page/upcoming queue. If you view them directly by the URL they will still be there.
- killfish, on 10/12/2007, -2/+33Pfft, it's a frickin' blizzard outside and you want me to outside without my hat?
- bustaballs, on 10/12/2007, -2/+33A group of people with an agenda? That's crazy!
- DieselDaddy, on 10/12/2007, -13/+42It's easy to know what will be Buried and what will be Dugg. This is not rocket science.
Let's review the Digg User Manifesto:
Section 1, Paragraph 1: "If the story is negative towards the current administration, negative towards Microsoft, mentions FOSS, positive towards atheism, negative against the war or has some sort of liberal slant: THOU SHALT AUTOMATICALLY DIGG!"
Section 1, Paragraph 2: "If the story is in any way favorable to the current administration, suggests Vista doesn't suck, is negative towards atheism, or generally supports traditional American values: THOU SHALT AUTOMATICALLY BURY!"
Seems simple enough to me. - threethirty, on 10/12/2007, -10/+37In mother Russia Digg buries you
- rudy23, on 10/12/2007, -6/+30If you read the f*n article its not about the buyring lame stories. its about a group of people who bury stories which they as a group do not like.
lets say you submitted your blog about something cool which was offensive to that group. Lets say majority of diggers like it but the group starts burying it before it even reaches that majority. Your blog lost out only because a certain group didn't like it. Kinda defeats the peoples vote thingy.
this issue not impacting the world but hey why avoid it if it exists. - lasenorita, on 10/12/2007, -18/+40You mean there's proof people were burying http://digg.com/politics/BBC_Reported_Building_7_Had_Collapsed_20_Minutes_Before_It_Fell as inaccurate/spam/whatnot? ::shock::
- bobonot, on 10/12/2007, -28/+50Dupe... buried
- betterth, on 10/12/2007, -10/+29@Cheney
No, wired is owned by a company that owns reddit. And theres no indication whatsoever that Wired is forced to play nice with Reddit, just disclaim on articles about competitors. - TheJas, on 10/12/2007, -15/+34Yeah I dont understand why this is controversial. We need people to bury stories or else we will end up with complete ***** on the front page. The people who do the burying are the last thing keeping the content on digg decent at all. There is so much crap nowadays. Keep on burying people! also this story... buried.
- DisposableRob, on 10/12/2007, -6/+24Dammit, I buried this as a dupe earlier but it still hit the front page. Bury Brigade, we're losing our touch! we need to regroup and reassess our plans.You know where to meet.
- Yorn, on 10/12/2007, -5/+20STORIES ABOUT DIGG ARE JUST SO AWESOME, PLEASE SUBMIT THEM MORE.
Sorry for the caps, but I can think of no better way to express my sarcasm. Maybe we're burying stories about Digg because the meta-talk is flooding our RSS feeds. Perhaps we don't want to read about Digg because at one point we were drawn to this site for being about cool stuff and not always itself, the top ten, algorithms, Kevin Rose, blogspam, SEO, top X reasons why Y, etc.
OMG Digg is maturing, let's write an article about how much it's not like itself anymore! - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+19Digg is about as far from a true social networking site as you can get.
There are clicks of users who digg each others ***** no matter how asinine the topic.
Controversial topics vanish.
Cool and useful topics submitted by casual members are quickly buried and resubmitted by maniacal users who have their groupies rush theirs to the top.
Now you read about people who you can pay to digg your *****.
It's pretty sad really. When I first found Digg I thought it was pretty nifty, but it becomes more lame with eash passing day. - goatomatic, on 10/12/2007, -8/+23Correct me if I'm wrong, but burying an article is a feature of digg, right? I'm like number 9 on the list, but I am in NO WAY connected to any group with an agenda on digg. I just like to bury articles that I find lame, it's my right as a digger, isn't it?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+18Fellow Diggers,
The link of the Top 50 has me at number one. I started burying all Sony and Wii related articles because I am absolutely sick of hearing the fanboyism. I resolve to stop burying stories without merit immediately. Thanks. - Matteos, on 10/12/2007, -2/+16Absolutely true.
- kolanos, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14The problem with Digg is that it gives too much power to the naysayers, which allows a small group to censor stories that thousands have dugg. The "buried" feature is also being misused. It is intended to fight spam, not censor stories for ideological reasons.
Digg needs to even the playing field in that regard. If a thousand people like a story, it's going to take a thousand+1 who don't to remove it from the front page. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+17ive noticed a bit of censoring on digg both by the site itself and the community. deleted comments and certain groups of people burying certain types of stories they dont like is some of what ive noticed.
if you all think its impossible for a group to conspire into projecting their agenda on digg, you lack all common sense. you are probably the same person who is unaware of the websites that actually pay you to digg stories for their clients, or get paid to put stories into the front page.
face it, digg is dead. its corrupt, its gone and it will never be the same. - MrKite, on 10/12/2007, -3/+15They definitely let all the Apple stories go through. Steve Jobs must be paying digg mucho dollars.
- kenjura, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12Unfortunately, if this story doesn't get buried, it's disproves the whole argument.
Though not really, since it could just be "them" playing a clever trick...
Even so, censorship isn't good, whether it's done by the government or the masses. I don't want anyone telling me what I can't read, even if it's my peers. I am a harsh critic of the 9/11 conspiracy theories that get posted on Digg, and I wish that somehow the FUD on both sides of that issue would clear up. However, I also share the suspicions that many do that such stories are buried or otherwise censored, and, if this were proven, I would be furious.
Freedom of speech means, as always, "I don't agree with a word that you say, but I will fight to the death for your right to say it". - fsnuffer, on 10/12/2007, -2/+13Should I bring the wooden paddle for the newbs?
- mmaf, on 10/12/2007, -4/+14This is the reason DIGG will never break the mainstream, gather more than 150,000 users and make a profit.
- RyeBrye, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Wait - so if I disagree with this article, and consider it utter *****, by digging it down am I validating it?
Hmm... - Yes, I'll admit, I bury twice as much as I dig. But that's because there's about thirty times more ***** getting submitted to digg than anything worth reading. - indy500fan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Do they also delete old diggs? I only have a few stories dugg, so it was easy for me to notice when one disappeared. It was a video of a "The Simpsons" intro that had about 600 comments all dugg down to hell. One day it just wasn't there anymore, and I couldn't find it on search. Mind you this was a few months after it was dugg and made frontpage.
- TheNik, on 10/12/2007, -5/+14Honestly, it's not our website. If the owners and moderators want to censor it, they have every right to no matter how much you bitch.
- socokoolaid, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Bury Brigade, I hope their real name is more cleaver than that.... kinda like the bicycle bad boy bandits or something else a fourth grader would make up...
- jcs_goog, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Wired is just complaining because Digg is so much more popular. Plus, Wired just bought Reddit which obviously is tiny compared to Digg.
http://www.alexaholic.com/digg.com+wired.com+reddit.com - PrometheuZ, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Well Digg is mostly liberal, at least politically...if you don't like it go somewhere else. Just logout and turn on your AM radio...you can't change a communities thoughts...even though that would be a nice trick.
- evil-doer, on 10/12/2007, -4/+12excuse me, why is there a bury function if it should never be used? its not like i was hacking the site or something. its there to be used. if racists are spreading racist stories i will use my right and the functions of this site to throw it in the garbage where it belongs.
- JimV, on 10/12/2007, -17/+25Ha ha, I just buried this article as LAME, like I do to all such articles. Because they are lame.
I must be part of the vast Digg censorship conspiracy! - kolanos, on 10/12/2007, -6/+13Agree. If Digg (as a community) refuses to be a source for alternative viewpoints (from what the mainstream media is shoving down our throats) -- then what good is it? I don't come here to be lambasted with Apple fan boys advertising new products, I don't come here to see mainstream news articles about Anna Nicole Smith, yet that's the kind of crap that is making the front page -- while RELEVANT stories are being buried...
For example: http://www.lemieuxster.com/digg/expose/ - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8I bury blog spam. If you want me to read an article, then link directly to that article.
- shaun944, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9wait, so in looking at this data that is being called "proof" of a 'Bury Brigade' by Wired and others, they're saying a conspiracy exists because two people buried the same article, and then buried a couple others that weren't related at all. Or that wow, a person buried 3 articles about Sony and someone else buried one of those articles too....shocking "proof" there.
There are 500,000+ users on Digg every day, and they think 3 stories getting buried by two users constitutes a conspiracy??? OK. I have a bridge you can buy too. - joeshlub, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9Not even the same topic. Your just plain wrong.
- rossinio, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10totally true, i commented on the LSD video (guy in the mirror) story and couldn't find it through searching later, it had even been taken off my commented stories :S whats that about kevin? Really annoying, and totally against what I thought digg was all about..
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9@supernova17,
I think somebody on Digg has it in for you, and I have no clue why this is so. You get banned for doing things that tens of thousands of other people seem to be doing with impunity. Go figure!
I hope I don't get banned for having suggested this! - MrFlesh, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7This is indeed possible. It happened over at Daily Kos. Kos implemented a new rating system similiar to digg's but enough negative ratings could get you to lose trusted user status and eventually banned these down ratings would also make your comments unviewable (not just minimized) to others. Then there was a group of people led buy a guy named armondo (who was eventually outed as a Wal Mart defense attorney...on a democratic webstie no less) who would go through Daily Kos posts and rate down every post reguardless of content or subject.......e.g. I talk ***** on Hillary Clinton and my other comments on car gas mileage get rated down even comments like.."I dunno" or "LOL". Kos initially denied it was happening then he sanctioned it. Which kinda goes against the whole grass roots open forum he claimed Kos was about.
The only reason it got out was because I messaged so many other users about the topic that it was impossible to hide. Doing that got the account suspended. Then got banned because one of them wouldn't leave me alone so I posted his adress phone number and real life name on one of the boards. That was April-May of last year...I opened other accounts but those would get banned as soon as something critical or questioning was said about anything. Eventually I stopped going to the site all together because it became preaching to the choir. It's funny but Daily Kos has turned into what they made fun of redstate.org for being......a giant echo chamber. It's totally possible that it happens on digg I comment on stories and then I go to my comments section and poof the story is gone? Why? This is a perfect example of why mob rule doesn't work....why are other people allowed to pick what I can and can't read......I'd go to mainstream media if I wanted that. - littlebylittle, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Captured! "Holy Crap! Wired Article on Vast Digg Conspiracy." +1984 Diggs
http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r43/littlebylittle_2007/DiggMeet1984.jpg
Irony and humor of it anyone? - fitzfan, on 10/12/2007, -6/+12Its just a website people. Why do people feel outraged when something weird happens, they quickly say it is a conspiracy and dedicate their days to figuring it out. Maybe all the stories got buried because people are tired of hearing a new digg conspiracy story everyday.
- diggboi, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7mrfoos, you idiot...digg is for posting cheap witticisms and superficial, semi-witty retorts! Now let's all get back to being completely unproductive in the middle of a frigging workday.....
- hockeysmurf, on 10/12/2007, -7/+13Most of us already knew that FOX, CNN, ABC, CBS, BBC all censor the news, but now Digg too? That sucks.
- Visceral, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7It's a big problem on Digg and it's getting noticed more and more by people and writers on the internet. Ignoring it like they have won't make it go away.
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