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- Celeron, on 10/12/2007, -2/+47People need to stop linking to blogs. Link to the direct damn website where the content truely is.
- frednofr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+16And people need to stop digging stories not linking directly to what's of interest.
- musters, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15haha,
way to comment about a topic in the wrong page
I think you meant
http://digg.com/design/Nvidia_redraws_its_logo_w_PIC - ArchieAndrews, on 10/12/2007, -3/+15Oh, I think I see now. If you use the url that you suspect most people will use, there will be less dupes because the auto system will flag it. Is that the reader's digest version?
- BloodJunkie, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12FTA: "I would encourage all social bookmarkers to make it a habit to search before submitting."
- jeremy66158, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12I like this response because I too think digg could easily get rid of this problem:
st3phen said,
August 15, 2006 @ 2:37 pm
doesn’t google look at the content of the page when you submit a search? perhaps these social sites could compare the first 100 words of the story linked. if there’s a match, it would present the story duplicated for the submitter to upvote. - webtickle, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14Not sure what you mean by that, but this isn't my story. I submit random things on digg that I think will hit the homepage. Just like other digg users I am trying to add useful information that benefits others.
- spiderland, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10That's all Kool and the Gang, but a better way to avoid dupes is to post directly to source content rather than blog rehashes.
- iPirate, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10I don't know why... but it bothers me when people post URLs to YouTube videos with extra info in the URL such as what they searched for. Instead of just linking to the video itself. Granted it doesn't make a difference (it's still the same video.) It still just ticks me off.
- ArchieAndrews, on 10/12/2007, -7/+16I don't understand. How does one url differ from another in terms of getting to the FP? Did I miss that in the article? All it seems to say is that you can have dupes of a story because more than one url can point to the same story. How does using a specific url make it easier to get fp'd?
- heysuburbia, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7What if the story originates on a blog? Or the blog elaborates. Or adds pictures. Or adds additional resources.
1/2 the sites you agree to be reputable are just giant blogs. - cmw72, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6The most Helen's ever was 30. Once, there were 29, but never 40.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Kids_in_the_Hall - tomi, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Hah, might want to check what story you're replying to. :P
(oof, musters beat me to it.) - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+10And stop forming mailing lists to blind digg five or six articles at a time to push an agenda. (*cough* Libertarians *cough* mises.org *cough*)
- B111, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6or make the article about kevin rose, digg itsself, ubuntu, or apple.
- DreadPirateWes, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6The way to get to the front page: Have a myriad of sheep (friends) that digg everything you post.
- breakneckridge, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5If there are several submissions to the same story in the digg queue, most people will only find and digg 1 of the dupes. This splits the number of people who actually voted for the same story into several fractions among each dupe. Less diggs on each individual dupe of the same story = less chance of making the front page for any.
- mapkinase, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I think the Digg script should bundle submissions together like Google News does and make this information available to the n-th submitter. "Here are similar stories, would you like to submit upteenth story on the subject?"
- szembek, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5This is the problem. If uniqueness is likely to get you on the front page, then people aren't going to link to the fact that www.cnn.com just got hacked... they're going to link to some fools blog about cnn.com being hacked. Silly!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I would like a related tab or something.. that way when there are a weak of new pirate bay stories, you could easily catch up
and some dupes have better info anyway - BloodJunkie, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4It makes sense to be annoyed by that. I'm sure YouTube is annoyed by it too. If something like that gets to the front page of digg, then YouTube is going to be fed all sorts of false metrics saying that a link came from a certain page or as a result of a certain search query, when in fact they're direct referrals from digg.
- Ireland, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3The real point is here that people who are so self-indulgent that they wan't to try and get their own submissions to the front page, even when they know that the same story exists already, i.e. same story, same URL. They try to submit, only to find out it's a dupe, so what they do is look at the other story and improve upon the title and the description, and then add a couple of numbers to the end of the URL, then digg recognizes their story as completely different to the other one that digg previously call them on! Digg and other sites like this need to be aware of this, and come up with a solution.
- jdawg, on 10/12/2007, -9/+12great advice...
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4you can be really sneaky and get zero dupes if you use a dotless ip
http://1089053032/
will work for most people.. squid does do dotless - cody50, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2haha
"Netscape This" - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1er does=doesnt
- cuoops, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1What I hate is people submitting stories(and making the front page) without getting the article from the source. Like from Eureka when they give the source of the story which has a lot more information. Or a short article that says something like "researchers at Harvard University"....just go to there and it's usually on their front page.
- supermortgage, on 01/31/2009, -0/+0Very Helpful Info:
Super Mortgages:
http://blog.tophomemortgageloan.com - inactive, on 07/18/2008, -0/+0Very helpful information regarding URL's and social bookmarking, Webtickle.
Thanks very much.
Steven Chappell
http://stevenchappell.wordpress.com/ - Namco, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1jdawg, so the elipsis means that you've used the ideas gleaned from this article and are about to hatch a plan to spam multiple dupes on digg. Can you possibly come up with an original thought on your own?
- bightchee, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1@cmw72:
I tried. - chrisbtig, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I did read the article. That sentence came near the end, and the author seemed to indicate it was less important than choosing the best URL. Personally, I think it's more important to search.
- mrsark, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1it seems to me that the more unique your URL is the more chance you would have of someone posting the same story with a different URL. at least on digg, as when u try to submit a link thats already submitted it tells u.. maybe im wrong..
- pkghost, on 10/12/2007, -7/+4why did tommytrc's comment get buried? what could possibly be wrong with his statement? sometimes i wonder...
- thecodemonk, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1someone misclicked an article :P
One more article up, my friend. :)
(Edit: doh! beat...damn you guys are fast. :) )
That being said...I agree with what is said above by Celeron. Linking the actual article is more interesting than a blog to me. Fewer clicks is something that's more convenient. :P - chrisbtig, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1This article annoys me because it suggests that the best way to avoid dupes is to post the URL that you think everyone else will be posting. That's lazy.
The best way to avoid dupes is to search Digg to see if the story has already been posted. For example, if you have a story about Floyd Landis, just perform a simple search for keyword "Landis" and it should be very obvious if the story has already been submitted. That will cut down on all the dupes.
You should ALWAYS perform a search like this before submitting an article to Digg... not just for wire stories. - benw, on 10/12/2007, -11/+3A story about how to submit articles to a site that aggregates news articles.
Revolutionary! Sixty BILLION dollars! Amazing! How brilliant this is! It's a website, and it has links to other websites! Be still my beating heart. - tommytrc, on 10/12/2007, -16/+8I was not aware of this...good info... Rock on!
- jasnmb, on 10/12/2007, -9/+1they changed the font and made the letters the same size
- jasnmb, on 10/12/2007, -10/+1direct link to old logo:
http://web.archive.org/web/20050330041700/www.nvidia.com/page/home.html?bcsi_scan_8D2F38F5DDB7DE68=/owCW0qJ0Gzlqgk1A7J0VAgAAAAuFf8K&bcsi_scan_filename=home.html - bightchee, on 10/12/2007, -14/+440 Helens agree....
- musters, on 10/12/2007, -15/+2is this how your story got promoted?
- PierceUK, on 10/12/2007, -36/+2i cant even remeber the old logo... was it more white or something..... anyway.... who really gives a damn its only a logo, its the GPUS that matter!
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