Call for questions
Submit and vote up questions you'd like to see answered by Kevin & Jay at the next Digg Townhall on 11/18.
Near proof that Digg is being gamed into the dust.
jeremy.stoic-epicurean.com — Here you have a submission with over 240 Diggs on it's way to front-page status. It was submitted by someone who joined Digg on the same day he/she submitted this article (yesterday). Here's a surprise, it is a political article submitted in the wrong section to get more attention.
BigManOnCampus- 35 diggs
- digg it
- stonebear, on 09/09/2008, -1/+4So what else is new.
- rootnik, on 09/09/2008, -3/+4It's in the environment section, I don't see the problem with the section it was submitted too.
link to submission in question: http://digg.com/environment/Run_polar_bears_run_Pa ...
And I find it a good thing that a new user can get so many diggs. I thought that is what we were aiming for: A wider variety of submitters on the front page instead of it getting dominated by the same power users?
Maybe I am missing the point, but I don't see the problem here... - rebotfc, on 09/10/2008, -1/+2Sorry but the environment is the right section!
- BigManOnCampus, on 09/10/2008, -0/+1You are wrong.
Science is about investigation and discovery.
Politics is about opinion and salesmanship.
The linked article is salesmanship trying to convince you a political candidate holds the "wrong" stance. There is nothing in that article about polar bears dissapearing, polar bears being threatened by climate change or some catastrophe, or anything about any scientific endeavor to understand polar bears. It is all about how VP candidate Palin is "Bad" for polar bears. That is opinion, not fact or investigative discovery. The linked article in that picture is pure politics and it belongs in the 2008 elections category NOT SCIENCE.
- BigManOnCampus, on 09/10/2008, -0/+1You are wrong.
- hydroplane, on 09/10/2008, -0/+1Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.
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