… that Digg.com is full of completely useless posts like this one?
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can’t say that I have.
Hmm … I thought that was the point of blogs and the like.
No, I think this is different from a blog, which is a personal site where the owner puts up whatever they feel like, or whatever interests them, etc.
Digg is primarily a tech link/news sharing site, where the users then rate the posts by “digging” them, which supposedly is some indication as to how good it is. But it kind of dilutes the usefulness of such a system when 128 people jump on and “digg” a story about a “Hidden Application Enabler” that does nothing more than add shortcuts to a bunch of applications that are included as a part of the Windows OS.
What’s also interesting to me is that the link points to somewhere where you have to sign up in order to download this “magic” application, so at best they are probably posting this bogus story/application to harvest email addresses, and at worst there could be who knows what kind of spyware, etc. embedded within this program that “unlocks” (in their words) the “secret” applications within windows. Then as the final straw there is the screenshot from a Linux workstation using an XP style theme, for a product that is supposedly specifically for windows; this one smells pretty bad, but yet it still gets “diggs”.
I found it extremely facinating!
I was joking. Most blogs, community blogs, and whatever else you want to call them are “full of completely useless posts.” Get it, ha ha.
Got it.
Not mine.
They have some good ads. I found my ipod case there.
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.
The “dumb ass diggers” are by definition an integral part of digg; you can’t separate them.
BTW, whatever you’ve got in your Wordpress sure adds a lot of stuff when it does a pingback.
Must be a WP 2.0 bug.
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.
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.
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.
or maybe that article is getting dugg because it really is bogus and folks thought it would be a good laugh for others?
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