Comments on: Did anyone ever notice…

By: nstryker

nstryker — Sat, 31 Dec 2005 04:53:32 +0000

or maybe that article is getting dugg because it really is bogus and folks thought it would be a good laugh for others?

By: Dan

Dan — Fri, 30 Dec 2005 22:51:31 +0000

yes and no. I agree with you about the naive people rulling Digg but if there were enough people to set them straight then it would be a better place. Because stories do get buried a lot. For example, a couple of my stories that I thought never would have reached the front page and later did got buried, and it seems like getting buried is a lot easier then getting on continually dugg.

Anyways, the solution is to check the second page only because by the time the articles reach the second page they should have been weeded out a little better.

By: JB

JB — Fri, 30 Dec 2005 22:08:51 +0000

That’s my point exactly; there are apparently enough non-intelligent diggers that will dig things like this which are completely bogus. That’s what I mean by the whole digging thing not being very helpful when so many are willing to dig a story like this.

I am talking about the 200+ people (and it’s not just that they think differently, they just don’t know enough to figure out that what they’re looking at is bogus), but that is the whole point of digg - it is made up of those 200+ people.

By: Dan

Dan — Fri, 30 Dec 2005 20:02:12 +0000

Exactly. The Diggers are the result of every article being posted on the homepage. And yes, there is no separation because there isn’t two pieces to begin with.

You are complaining about the story well the story is there because people think that link is deemed good enough to be dugg while the people who don’t rather not bury it because they don’t care.

Simply, people not computers made that story on the front page of Digg; not algorithms or a couple editors but individuals.

So the rant should be directed at the 200+ people who think differently then you.

By: Dan

Dan — Fri, 30 Dec 2005 19:45:55 +0000

Must be a WP 2.0 bug.

By: JB

JB — Fri, 30 Dec 2005 18:57:11 +0000

BTW, whatever you’ve got in your Wordpress sure adds a lot of stuff when it does a pingback.

By: JB

JB — Fri, 30 Dec 2005 18:51:41 +0000

The “dumb ass diggers” are by definition an integral part of digg; you can’t separate them.

By: Dan

Dan — Fri, 30 Dec 2005 17:32:48 +0000

The whole point of the social aspect of Digg is that you rate, good or bad, if you wanted to undigg a story because you rushed to judgment you can. You can also “bury” a digg if you thought it sucked. Don’t blame digg, you should blame the dumb ass diggers.

By: Scattered » 13 things that do not make sense

Scattered » 13 things that do not make sense — Fri, 30 Dec 2005 17:31:22 +0000

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By: Martha

Martha — Thu, 29 Dec 2005 18:23:26 +0000

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