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11 Comments
- canewediggit, on 10/12/2007, -5/+12rr- if they are buried into submission, that is the voice of the community. the assertations that "digg" is biased implies that kevin, alex, and the staff are hellbent on keeping the conservative message down. that is simply not the case (go to the homepage right now, lgf is there). if you want to talk about how the digg _community_ leans left, then fine. but bias is an unfair term and to imply that is it _digg_ and not _the users_ keeping the conservative message down is inaccurate.
the digg/bury weighting is fine, just because you don't like the result doesn't mean it isn't a fair representation of the community's opinion.
and having an article like this every day doesn't help your cause, it only makes you look even worse. users never show any love for crybabies that whine about their submissions not making the front page. - slothchunk, on 10/12/2007, -4/+8It's like a collective north korean censorship in here sometimes. let the minority be heard! bury bad articles, conservative or liberal. don't bury just because it's not from your political persuasion.
- Jagdhund, on 10/12/2007, -4/+8The democracy arguement may be valid, but it is still tyranny of the majority no matter how much you want to dress it up. Of course, this is just an online forum, so it doesn't truly need to be a representative type democracy. Thusly, it is innately unfair to the minority. For example, you don't see many pro-microsoft stories *L*.
I can live with the fact that there are many people out there who will abuse the bury button. What I do not abide is the fact that there are those who systematically bury conservative stories, not just the ones they see 'by chance'. That is cheating the system. - dtfinch, on 10/12/2007, -6/+9A lot of the conservative diggers do nothing else but digg, submit, and police right wing articles. I've found several that only digg and comment on articles from a single site, and respond within a couple minutes of those articles being submitted. They all get together, rapidly digging articles to the front page and censoring negative responses. Some ( http://digg.com/users/Apollo10/news/dugg for example ) even seem to be digging a standard 40 hour work week, 8 hours every morning and skipping weekends.
- Afreyt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2On the out of touch with reality scale, conservatives score much higher lately. I won't be shedding any tears if digg leans towards being fact-based, and conservatives decide to label that as "left".
I used to consider myself a centrist. Apparently now I am a moonbat liberal because the conservatives buried the needle with the neocon movement. I expect that should I live long enough I will also labeled a right-winger when the pedulum swings back. - canewediggit, on 10/12/2007, -10/+12jesus, drop it already. gop3 was reinstated, lgf has at least 2 front page posts in the last 2 days, and there are plenty of conservative news/opinion posts here everyday. quit bitching because they don't get front page every time (it's because of a numeric algorithm and you don't have enough votes, tough titties) and produce better material or find more conservatives to join.
s.p.a.m. - RuffRidr, on 10/12/2007, -7/+8@canwediggit
I disagree. Conservative articles not getting enough Diggs to get to the front page is not the problem, they could do that easily. The problem is that everytime the articles get close to that point, they are dugg into submission. Or if they do make the front page, they last for a very short amount of time (15 minutes or less). Again due to being Dugg down by all the liberals.
If Digg is really as unbiased as they say they are, then the Digg Down feature needs to carry a lot less weight. - AniceAtheist, on 10/12/2007, -6/+6What you call liberal is someone who looks at right/wrong of an issue, whereas what you view as conservative holds Us/Them as more important then Right/Wrong. Loyalty to a group even against reality might be your way to do things but not the majority of diggers. It isn't bias just reality, "Reality has a well known liberal bias."
- dgblackout, on 10/12/2007, -7/+4yes
- alllie, on 10/12/2007, -7/+3I find my left wing comments are generally buried pretty fast.
I think for every leftie burying conservative submissions I think there are 2 conservatives burying leftie/liberal submissions.
As a result fewer and fewer political submissions are getting to the front page.
My only question is: Are the rightie actions organized, even paid for, or are they spontaneous. There are many groups who pay for forum posts.
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&c2coff=1&q=%22forum+posting+jobs%22&btnG=Search&meta=
Are there groups who pay to bury digg submissions?
I wouldn’t be surprised. - whorelock, on 10/12/2007, -7/+3As a member of the Digg community I am biased towards both Republicans and Democrats. I am sick of the two party system.
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