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- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -13/+469The sad thing is that people still think that the "top" diggers contribute something to this site that the other 700,000 users are incapable of submitting. Never mind the fact that there are only so many news sources or funny YouTube videos, and never mind the fact that each stories is usually submitted several dozen times over, and that the one that eventually makes it to the front page (by a "top" digger) doesn't have a better title/description than the other attempts at the same link.
The reason "top" diggers get to the front page is because "top" diggers have a ***** of friends that digg up their submissions. It has nothing to do with the quality of their submissions or the amount of their submissions (a completely worthless point, since there are almost a million damn users on Digg).
People need to stop thinking that these people bring ANYTHING worthwhile to Digg, and the guys behind Digg need to stop giving these ***** slack. This ***** should've been banned permanently. - corywingerter, on 10/12/2007, -11/+224He's back. Forget the article, did you even read the rest of the description?
- Petronski, on 10/12/2007, -12/+225***...promised not to do it again.
Heh heh heh. Riiiiiight. - AngusMustang, on 10/12/2007, -2/+82i saw this story already...
...submitted by Supernova17.
(this comment was in no way compensated by Karim.) - burstaneurysm, on 10/12/2007, -2/+75ilyag is completely right... digg has quickly become a popularity contest. It's no longer about the first to submit a story, or even consistently good content. There will always be someone with the power ("friends") to ensure that whatever they've submitted gets dugg by their "friends". Of course they're top diggers...
Sorry for the rant. - TroyBenedict, on 10/12/2007, -4/+45I would've kept him banned.
- op12, on 10/12/2007, -0/+39Better yet, read what you just posted! ***Yergaliyev was reinstated***
re·in·state (rē'ĭn-stāt') tr.v., -stat·ed, -stat·ing, -states.
1. To bring back into use or existence.
2. To restore to a previous condition or position. - jcblitz, on 10/12/2007, -5/+39apolagised?
- atgunning, on 10/12/2007, -13/+45So how much did news.com pay you to post this story?
j/k :) - rynoon, on 10/12/2007, -1/+30Besides the fact that it's dickish (lets pretend it's a real word) in nature, the top diggers usually have a following of "friends" which allow them to get stories put on the front page without much effort. So if he posts 2 or 3 legitimate stories and then gets paid to post an advertisement, chances are that advertisement is making it to the front-page, regardless of the submissions merit.
I guess it's time to get a real job, Karim. - ,,|,_, on 10/12/2007, -1/+29And here the people who paid Supernova17 are getting even more free publicity from digg (and an even wider audience of CNET readers) from this story.
Any publicity is good publicity - Popdmb, on 10/12/2007, -8/+34Wow...we really need something to happen in the news cycle today. This is the millionth time something about suprnova17 has hit the front page since it happened. If you're digging this story, you're subjecting yourself to all kinds of lame.
I never thought I'd see the day when wished for Apple rumors hitting the front page again. :-/ - neoform, on 10/12/2007, -3/+28Are you one of those people who thinks the death penalty is a good idea for people who cheat at WoW?
- partialinfinity, on 10/12/2007, -2/+24Somebody call the Joke Docta
- dclowd9901, on 10/12/2007, -1/+23There's an easy solution to this problem: Have a limit per 24 hour period of story submissions. Given that there are, indeed, plenty of duplications for any given story, there's no shortage of diggers on the lookout for new stories.
I propose a maximum of 5 story submissions a day. Any regular digg user has NO NEED to submit more than that, unless they are looking to profit off the system like Supernova. I don't buy the yawningly philanthropic, "I do this to benefit the community." Maybe for a while, but at some point, you're going to be asking for something. Supernova's been around forever. It's no shocker and no coincidence that he had his hand in the honey pot. - Tyr7BE, on 10/12/2007, -1/+23"Any publicity is good publicity"
Sure. Just ask SCO. - spudnic, on 10/12/2007, -0/+22The problem isn't companies bribing the top diggers, it's the fact that the top diggers have so much power over what gets on the front page that it's worth bribing them.
- bllambert, on 10/12/2007, -1/+17I thought it was our responsibility to bury crap stories. This guy gets dug just because he is in the top 20?? DIG THE STORY...not the person that submitted it.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -5/+21What about the blogs that are encouraged to submit stories here? You don't think they do it for profit?
More than half of EVERYTHING you see on the Digg front page was submitted there to make money. Did you never wonder why almost everything on Digg links to an ad-filled blog that summarizes or links to an original source, which is itself NEVER submitted? - FlindianaJones, on 10/12/2007, -2/+18User: "Whoops, I'm sorry. I just sold all the dig user's personal information to AOL."
Digg: "..."
User: "Sorry?"
Digg: "We still love you!" - wvdavis, on 10/12/2007, -5/+21So MrSolutions posts to digg a News.com article and JetNumbers gets the advertising anyway.
edit: atgunning beat me to it. :( - JohnboiWaltune, on 10/12/2007, -2/+17@ilyag
"The reason "top" diggers get to the front page is because "top" diggers have a ***** of friends that digg up their submissions. It has nothing to do with the quality of their submissions or the amount of their submissions (a completely worthless point, since there are almost a million damn users on Digg)."
So it's just like any other job... it's not what you know, but who you know (and blow). - eddiexplorer, on 10/12/2007, -2/+17...Good Riddance! For a while -____-
- Kericr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15Reinstating that account is bad form. You're going to tell me he didn't know? How many times did Kevin Rose @ company rail on, endlessly, repeatedly, about how big of a TOS violation this is? He shouldn't be kicked off digg, but that powerful account should be axed as his punishment.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15tarzan...tell me you aren't falling for the ***** that here are 700,000 users. For every user in the list, well over half of them are multiple accounts from people. And another 40% signed up and nefver used it again. (Take a look at just how many profiles have absolutely no acitivity in months or just one digg, comment, etc.) MAYBE 10% of the users on the list visit Digg more than 1 time a week.
You ever wonder why they don't purge the user list? Becuase they are trying to make ithe site look bigger than it is. - DisposableRob, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13You aren't the first to have noticed.
It's not a bug.
Refresh your page. - greymarketbrain, on 10/12/2007, -7/+20So why is he banned (then unbanned) when all the Macheist fanboys saturated the front page for a week or more? Ban him... fine, but then ban ever whingey little fan boy too that boosted Phil Ryu's coffers to $.5million!
go ahead fanboys, bury me, again.
cowards. - HappyScrappy, on 10/12/2007, -5/+17On a site where you can make new accounts freely and easily, there's no actual point to a permanent ban. People will just make new accounts with new names and leave their past behind them.
About the most you can do to punish a person is give him/her a "time out" and then leave them with their now tarnished handle. - M2Ys4U, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14for people who PLAY WoW maybe... not just the cheaters :P
- swingsetacid, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11i'm not mr. digg evanglizer or anything, but i randomly looked at a few of your comments. every single was either "dupe" or "buried. old" or "i can't believe this is on the front page" or "digg sucks." you get out of digg what you bring to it. you bring spite and a close-minded view of the entire service. no wonder why you hate it so much!
every day on digg, i get some of the best tech news and biggest laughs in one place. chill out and have some fun. say hi to slashdot for us. - thewaz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10@TruthKid
It hurts the quality of the stories and the entertainment, and gives other good stories less chance.
I dont care that much taht my stories dont make the front page, they never do, and i dont hoard friends to get them there. - eric1, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11That's fine. The "power" on Digg comes from a recognized handle. Take that away, and even a 'top poster' won't be able to hit the front page (if that's your goal)
- detrate, on 10/12/2007, -4/+14RTFA, he was unbanned
- brstilson, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10Ummmm....it's not, because both suck.
- concreteclam, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11Or Sony.
don't just wear it -- pwn it!!1! - NSMike, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10I DID read it. Your comment lacked context and proper explanation. Your reply to my comment contained entirely NEW information that no one could have intimated from your first comment.
Regardless, you still created multiple accounts, which is still a violation of the TOS. The fact that you didn't have those accounts concurrently changes nothing. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+13How I wish English was focused on in school.
- ProfessorRiffs, on 10/12/2007, -4/+13Who in the flying ***** gives a holy *****.
- RocketSeason, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10Wait...I can make money at this!?! jk.
- polypropglop, on 10/12/2007, -4/+12Appropriate response from Digg
- kakapu4u, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8You are part of the problem, subliminal727. I've written this before.
You digg all of MrBabyMan's submissions, for example. No wonder we see so many stories from him on the front page. Thanks, buddy.
http://www.digg.com/users/mrbabyman/submitted - EmmSee, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10I love how Supernova17 has his gtalk id in his profile (STILL).
In other words, "I'm open for Business! Contact me for Front Page status! Only $1000, 45% success rate, money back guarantee!" - Oxygen, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8"Phony stories, worries the company, could conceivably erode Digg's credibility."
That made me laugh. - JackHallows, on 10/12/2007, -4/+12This is *****. Whoever runs this site has NO INTEGRITY.
"Oh, I was paid to submit ***** but I won't do it again, I promise :D "
"OK, here's your account back, don't do it again you little rascal. ^_^ "
Digg sucks.
And it will continue to suck until the whole "user ranking" ***** is gone.
Sometimes I wonder why I still visit this site.
Sometimes I wonder why I even registered in the first place.
"WELL IF YOU HATE IT SO MUCH WHY DONT YOU JUST LEAVE LOLOLOL"
No problem. It's not like I'll be missing anyone's idiocy. In fact, I think I'll write an email right now asking to remove my account, so that I will be discouraged from EVER visiting it again.
Again. Digg sucks. - invader, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7> What about the blogs that are encouraged to submit stories here? You don't think they do it for profit?
recently, i ran an experiment. _one_ adsense ad collected about $30 from a front page submission (over 4 days as the traffic tapers off). oh yeah, big money
//i didn't run the experiment to make that whopping $30. i was extremely curious how much those bastard blogspammers are making - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8invader:
Earning $30 for about 10 minutes of work (writing up a summary from an article you found on a commercial news website, and submitting your summary to Digg) is a LOT of money, especially when you're a young, unemployed college student (as many of these bloggers are). - EmmSee, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8This shows you how any Top Digger can submit any crap and it makes front page... haha. As Kramer would say ... "the cat's OUT of the bag!"
- Supernova36, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8How dare he bring the Supernova name into disrepute.
- LittlemanTAMU, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6How's this different from people linking their own or friend's ad-laden blogs instead of to the real story?
- krakkinem, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8awww, they forgave him. Isn't that sweeeeeeet?
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