wow how digg has changed
- 13th Mar 2007
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I hadn’t been to digg for a while so I was kinda surprised when I went there today,,,
front page Diggs, one on all oreilly books free to download (illegal copies), one on a Vista crack to help the pirate copies of it work and another to the pirate bay… Digg is a pirates heaven..
shortly after writing this Digg felt the floor force of the DaveN effect .. maybe they should install wp-cache or something .. dicks !
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Its because all the other sites have been diggboxed and get buried straight away.
Digg has always had stolen content on, there videos section is about 90% family guy cutscenes…wow?
yeah..Something must be done!
Yeah if the Digg community don’t like something they are gonna bury bury bury…
Sorry, but, big Digg fan. Piracy is nothing new. Don’t blame Digg for fuelling it. If it wasn’t on Digg, it would be somewhere else.
I’ve been watching Digg for months, and recently became a member, purely because a LOT of what they have is technical, which is my interest.
Lastly, you might not agree with their content, but calling them dicks? Bit juvenile.
Maybe your internet connection got farked. I don’t think that a stupid little blog like this could bring down a website like digg without some sort of coordinated DDOS attack. But that would be illegal, just like piracy, so you wouldn’t stoop so low, right?
You really need to get over yourself, you are not the reason for digg going slow. Unless you sent 100k hits in under an hour you had no effect on digg and it was a coincidence. Thought you should know so you can finally get off your high horse.
Figured I should mention if this was for linkbait, it probably won’t work on 80% of the people.
100k hits in under an hour … NOPE I THINK it;s maybe a block point, 3 guys including me all dugg the same story within seconds,,
maybe a temporary ip ban or something but digg was closed down for us for 15 mins.. just odd i could get to it if i routed via another office…
Matt.. if it was linkbait,, i would hit digg 100k hits a second not an hour and hold it down you have to love t1’s load balanced pipes in 3 countries.
DaveN
I normally just ready Dave’s blog and don’t really leave any comments, but i felt that i had to leave on on this post. But not because of Dave’s post, but because of the other comment on this one. So this is to Jack ,Centi32, and Matt.
To Jack - “Don’t blame Digg for fuelling it.”
If it wast on digg, a lot of people wouldn’t know about it. Such as the vista crack for example. I don’t browse hacker sites and would have never known (or at least not for a wile) about that crack, but now that it’s on digg, TONS of people (like me) know about it that wouldn’t have known if not for it hitting digg, Dumb ass.
To Centi32 - “I don’t think that a stupid little blog like this could bring down a website like digg”
Fist of all, this isn’t just a “stupid little blog”. DaveN’s blog is read by tones of people every day. This blog is big in the SEO industry. Do some research before you speak. Secondly, i’m sure he was being sarcastic about bringing down digg. Anyone with technical knowledge would know that, Dumb ass.
To Matt - “You really need to get over yourself, you are not the reason for digg going slow.”
Same goes for you as i said to centi32. Oh, and digg is going slow (like they always are) Because they suck!!
Digg goes slow because the page weight is over half a meg and I suspect that the site (originally) wasn’t very well coded. I’m sure they’ve got some professionals in recently though.
Digg goes slow because the page weight is over half a meg and I suspect that the site (originally) wasn’t very well coded. I’m sure they’ve got some professionals in recently though.
In reply to Adam: “I don’t browse hacker sites and would have never known (or at least not for a wile) about that crack, but now that it’s on digg, TONS of people (like me) know about it that wouldn’t have known if not for it hitting digg, Dumb ass.”
I’m a dumbass huh? Ok, well, since I got a 100% score in English and 180 point IQ, allow me to tell you that wile is actually spelt while unless you were talking about the wiles of the Vista Crack. Secondly, Digg is the name of something (i.e.: a site), therefore should be capitalised. But then, this from the guy who capitalised because after brackets. Also, since when has sucking been a cause of lag? Think carefully before call someone a dumbass, it might come back and bite you in the arse. Moron.
Oh, and just to ram home this point, your grammar is as appalling as your spelling. “digg is going slow…” should actually be “Digg is going slowly”.
Lastly, not everyone on Digg actually cares about Vista. Because a lot of Digg users are competent on computers, and don’t need Bill Gates to hold their hand, therefore they use Linux. Like I do.
When you bring spelling and grammar into an argument you know you’ve lost. Well done Adam.
Us Slashdotters learnt this ages ago :-)
Thank you rob, i couldn’t have said it better myself!
Dave, you know: only children on Digg. What do you expect to find there? Articles on rocket science ? :-)
“100% score in English and 180 point IQ,”
I’ll call your IQ and your English score and raise you a PhD and a 99th percentile score on my GRE. Oh, and by the way, the real reason Adam is wrong, is because I can piss across a 12-foot trench. Into the wind. Take that Adam.
As a general rule, you should not expect someone to understand irony if he
- tells you his IQ
- cites his score in English (uh, what test is that exactly) as some sort of qualification
- says you should believe him because he has a Ph.D (or, even worse, because he has a bachelor’s degree in field X).
- et cetera
Digg video is a joke. Just submit any clip from family guy or the office or the Simpson’s or scrubs you will get dugg
Digg.com is getting cocky and banning small web sites just because digg’s users submit them to digg and digg’s moderators don’t like it. Scifidigg.com is the latest victim of Digg’s “We are big, you are small and we can do whatever we want” attitude.
First some background.
After running the website Scifi2u.com for the last year we realised there was a demand for a scifi digg type website – 6 Days ago ScifiDigg.com was born and is powered by open source Pligg and the YouTube API.
So what went wrong?
The site went live on the 22 March 2007. People submitted stories and video links to digg and other sites del.icio.us, Yahoo, Simply and Reddit. Having a submit button makes submitting very easy and fast but that could be a problem.
Let’s get to the point
WITHIN 6 DAYS THE SITE HAS BEEN BANNED FROM DIGG
Digg’s moderators decided that since the link pointed to my site and the posts are mainly videos from YouTube ScifiDigg should be banned from digg and no other links from scifidigg.com can be posted to digg.
Digg’s response
I contacted digg to find out what happened and why they blocked my site. The response I got from them was that my site violated their terms of use, by copying another site. I explained to them that although the video is streamed by YouTube we give the facility for original coments to be added.
The response I got was that they do not allow sites that copy other sites to be submitted to digg. I told them that according to their rules they should also ban Yahoo news, since it does not have an original content but republish articles from PCWorld, Reuters, MACWorld and others. Also falls under this category other major sites like neowin.net, blink.nu and many more that are doing exactly the same infact they should ban YouTube because the video content is often copied from other video websites. But hey, they are big sites and digg can’t pick on them without repercussion, like they can pick on small blogs that try to establish themselves.
So what have we learned?
· Digg’s users don’t really determine what gets promoted, but digg’s moderators do.
· Digg have a different set of rules for small site and different rules for big sites, even though both are doing the same.
· Digg will ban a small site just because one of its user’s submitted an article that other digg members liked and promoted, but moderator didn’t like the link.
· Digg will not listen to reason when told that the site did not violate its TOS.
I am going to create a Digg.com clone http://www.BannedDigg.com Watch this space!!!
I think Digg certainly has many problems. Not only is the frontpage content getting more and more dominated by superlatives and Top X lists, but the user and comments are decreasing in quality as well. I run what some would consider a “Digg clone,” but I believe that while Digg was innovative (not inventive) in the social news space, they have left the door wide open for competitors.
Digg will implode if they don’t change.