What is Digg?114 Comments
- dshPls, on 11/05/2007, -19/+199The urge to fit into society by boosting a e-penis with 35% growth
- MajorMesses, on 10/12/2007, -5/+80Why don't you tell us, BloodJunkie?
- BloodJunkie, on 11/07/2007, -21/+95I don't want to be self-indulgent, but since you asked: the community motivates me. Sharing interesting, useful or entertaining content with people who share my interests on a daily basis is why I contribute.
That, and the hope of one day landing a biker chick. - FlyingLlama, on 10/12/2007, -3/+42Because they feel the need of love and friends, maybe because there is not enough in their "real" life.
Humans are social beings. We require love and friends to be happy...
Such in the example of very severe cases of autism. Mental disease keeps them from having human friends, so many of them find friendship or comfort in objects.
Anything for a friend, for popularity, for fame. ya, corny i know. :)
just my $0.02. - Kestral, on 10/12/2007, -1/+40The women of course.
First you get the content, then you get the diggs, then you get the women. - macewan, on 10/12/2007, -4/+35that's iPenis for you mac folks
- davidirock, on 10/12/2007, -6/+34@BloodJukey
Dude, you've submitted alot of stuff. It's sweet man. I go way back as well. One time I check out your name and found all the stuff you submited (a while ago). Just keep going man. If everyone was passive like me then we wouldn't have any content. I need the top 1%. Who am I suppose to comment on if they go away. So I'm motivating, people submit good stuff... Or lame stuff.. so I can comment on it. And add me to your friends list. Because people I know think they are too cool for digg and won't join. - masamunecyrus, on 10/12/2007, -5/+33Boredom and the need to the latest and greatest.
- emeriste, on 10/12/2007, -2/+29How self indulgent. This article talks about rogue biker gangs. Not Digg. This article would never have made the front page were it not submitted by someone who is in the top 1 percent, who apparently sees himself being spoken about in the article.
So let's examine that. If BloodJunkie sees himself being described in the article, then what does this article really say? The article tells us that 1 percenters see themselves as "outlaws of culture" bound together by a sense of "community" that "revels in its minority status". The fact that BloodJunkie revels in his minority status has been proven by the fact that he would actually submit this self-serving story, so let's grant him that. But what about the "sense of community"?
I see the word community pop up quite a bit on Digg. But let us be very clear, in this article submitted by BloodJunkie for its insight into the motivations of the top 1 percent, the community being referred to consists of exactly the 1 percent and no one else. Said another way, 99 percent of those of you who are reading this are not part of the "community". Moreover, you never will be. Your stories will almost always die in obscurity while the "outlaws of culture" advance even when submitting stories about themselves. - kefs, on 10/12/2007, -4/+31Your 1% seems a little off...
Current digg user count: 250845
1% = 2508
http://digg.com/topusers/page85
User 2508 has had 2 stories promoted..
So again.. Your 1% seems a little off... and thus, does not apply to digg.com...
In fact, digg is not even mentioned in the article.. - wurzelgummage, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3050% Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
50% Delusions of grandeur - mozzer, on 10/12/2007, -37/+63mod me down, but that was LOL funny!
- LegendarySock, on 10/12/2007, -1/+190.01% = 25.08
I think thats a little more accurate, but still his title gets the point across. - mrASSMAN, on 10/12/2007, -6/+23This submission wouldn't have made front page if it wasn't submitted by a top 1-percenter.
- msaleem, on 10/12/2007, -2/+18Mostly delusions of grandeur for me.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+16When I read diggs, I could not care less who submitted it. It's irrelevant to me.
- sizeof, on 10/12/2007, -5/+16For all we know, the top diggers could be paid employees sitting at the same office in Bangalore... I mean, heck, why not? The web 2.0 "effect" can easily be faked and semi-automated... Food for thought.
Of course, this comment will soon be digged down by what they may want to appear as the "community", but is really a bot. - M4v3rIC, on 10/12/2007, -8/+19Shovin' it in the face of Jason Calacanis is what motivates them.
- oOLiquidNightOo, on 10/12/2007, -2/+13wait a minute, you mean the chance of snagging a "free t-shirt" isn't your primary motivation?
- mozzer, on 10/12/2007, -4/+14What I think motivates you guys:
Fame and recognition in this pond of Digg users.
An insatiable need to please others and feel accepted.
That's why I'd do it (for free). - snapuswipe, on 10/12/2007, -3/+12Ahem,
In Soviet Russia, Digg motivates you! - OBKenobi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Should he be banned?
http://digg.com/users/Geekforlife/profile - OBKenobi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8L Ron is that you? You've come back!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9one of them is about to get over $800 for his account on ebay
http://cgi.ebay.com/Digg-com-Profile-a-top-100-user_W0QQitemZ330013322157QQihZ014QQcategoryZ88433QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem - mgainor, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10Why do we care? Copying and pasting links from one web site to another and adding a poorly written summary comment is rote work that can be done by anyone.
- forgetfulca, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8"I see the word community pop up quite a bit on Digg."
I agree, and it confuses me. There's no community here. Just 100,000 people scratching and clawing for their daily allotment of their 15 minutes of fame. It strikes me that people using 'community' in an on-line sense are looking for a sense of belonging to anything. I don't belong to Digg, I use it's submitters as the random-shotgun blast approach to news reporting. Easy enough to peruse and skip the dross. Hey, even a blind chipmunk will find an acorn sometimes.
If my experience here is anything like typical, it goes as follows: With a few minutes to kill, I peruse a couple of sites that I frequent every day. A story happens to catch my eye, so I read it, then see if someone has anything interesting to add. _sometimes_ that something is interesting enough to respond to. I can not for the life of me remember any of the nicks of people I've responded to, positively or negatively. Is that a community? Doesn't a community consist of more than one in a sea of faces?
Face it, despite the last 20 years of hype, the net is not [yet?] replacing regular relationships. It's just allowing contact with people you know personally in circumstances where you otherwise might not be able to. I'm sure any number of you are warm, worthwhile individuals, but you will not exist in my mind until I meet you. No offense. ;> - yish, on 10/12/2007, -4/+11and while we're at it, induldge my curiousity:
1. how many hours a day do you spend on digg?
2. how do you promote your postings?
really, honestly - purely academic interest.
by the way, I like your stuff. keep it coming. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+11thumbs up for you for the truth
- jetjaguar, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9Lack of female companionship.
- cbiz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7To open a church, be on tv, make a trillion dollars, buy an island and not pay any taxes.
- atmofunk, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6agreed -- it never even occurs to me to look at who posted... i read the story for what it is and digg it for what it is. period.
- TheAttacks, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6I'm movtivated by the sucess of my stories. Not just "hey, look, my submission made it to the front page", but "hey look, over 500 people shared the same interest in the submission I made".
- spitfire6006006, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6"@LegendarySock
0.01% is One Tenth of a Percent"
I'm not sure where you went to school, but last time i checked, .01% was one one-hundreth of a percent. - Justice101, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8I'll wait for the E-True Hollywood story. I can see it now.... "The spotlight it burns!", "Don't worry it's only for 15 minutes.".
- OBKenobi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5[quote]Mostly delusions of grandeur for me.[/quote]
Same here I guess. Although, I really am a Jedi.
But there is some serious political and historical information I would like the mainstream to become aware of. Some of the 1%'s I notice share the same beliefs. Or have come upon the same information. Maybe it's just that anyone who tracks the news for a few years comes to the same conclusions. - geekee, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6The first question is, how do you get in the top 1%. Most people are too apathetic to vote on new stories. So certain users get a following of people with a similar agenda, who vote for all their stories, and this is enough to cross the small threshold needed to hit the front page. That's why a story on Fox News sexual harassment lawsuit made the front page, while a new UN resolution to stop Iran from enriching uranium did not.
- invader, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5i found it mildly amusing that the title says "The Top 1% of Digg's Users" and the article fails to mention the word "Digg" even once
i guess it's just a title aimed at the front page more than the article it is supposed to summarize.... - tomboy501, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5@geekee
I dugg your UN Resolution story so you stop crying.
...and don't be bitter...from what I've noticed, Bloodjunkie submits a very healthy share of World News/Politics stories. - Choppy, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7No, I think it may just be boredom.
- NoozeHound, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4And that is community minded how exactly? It's just "look at me !".
" I'm in the 1% now how can I promote that - ooh this l;ink to motorbike gangs should do it." - mozzer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4"Should he be banned?"
YES! This guys is a true sell-out!
Remove him from your friends list as well. - pickypg, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Ironic that someone in the top 1% posted this...
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Heres another interesting fact about bloodjunkie , check out his comments. Every 4th or so comment is on someone elses newley submitting digg calling it a 'dupe' and linking the same article he submitted. Thats how you get to be at the top I guess. Just be a prick.
- Tsujigiri, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3To be serious, I would partially attribute the motivations of the contributors here to that old geek(back when it meant geek)/hacker addage to try and get any information before everyone and then release it to others. In online communities a certain prestige has always come with that role because of that fading cultural rule about being "in the know" first.
- Chompy, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5They're gunning for that $1000/month Netscape is offering.
- oOLiquidNightOo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3jokes aside, i get more out of reading the comments in the forum then reading the articles or having a story promoted to the front page.
i especially enjoy reading clever humorous comments. i've read some seriously funny stuff via the digg forums. - vostek, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Even if its a completely retarded article, I can still read the hilarious comments. Thats what motivates me.
- pragone, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I think that what FlyingLlama said is the base: Humans are social beings.
But I think that there is more to it.
Don't you feel that on the net you're more protected. I think that peer pressure on real life is a lot harder than on the net. So if you need to fill those psychological needs you'll find that it's a lot easier to do on the net than on real life. - macewan, on 10/12/2007, -4/+5spoon
- theqball, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3I read this on the PBS.org site, he had an email from Bloodjunkie saying,
"I have been aware for a while that sites like Digg and Flickr are making millions off of users like me, so I have been considering possible ways to share that wealth among contributors. I think of all the ways you could go (pay per post, ad revenue share, etc.), Jason may have the best idea with the monthly flat rate. If he is convinced that he will get a return on that investment, then it is a win-win."
So, you submitting stories at netscape yet Bloodjunkie? -
Show 51 - 100 of 114 discussions
© Digg Inc. 2009
— Content created and posted by Digg users is