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Reddit users attacking Digg?


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GPFontaine
Joined: Dec 06 2007
Location: Connecticut
PostPosted: Sep 01 2010 09:28 am Reply with quote Back to top

As best as I can understand, Reddit users have found that Digg offers an auto submit option for stories. By exploiting this, they have begun to auto push reddit stories to the top of the Digg 24 hour feed and therefore are trying to push to the front page.

http://digg.com/news/24hr




 
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Syd Lexia
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Title: Pop Culture Junkie
Joined: Jul 30 2005
Location: Wakefield, MA
PostPosted: Sep 01 2010 10:36 am Reply with quote Back to top

Fuck 'em both, especially Digg. Digg used to be cool. Now it's a fucking club. If you want more than 3 Diggs on something, you need to be in a giant networking group with other people who Digg all of each other stories. So basically, if you're a regular person nothing you write will ever get featured on Digg.

Mark Cuban wrote a story about what a joke Digg is and how he got banned because he started using a script to auto-Digg stories his friends stories for him because he had better things to do with his time. But that means that there are people who don't have better things to do with their time. So Digg these days has a userbase not unlike the Wikipedia bureaucracy: a bunch of unwashed techie losers who spend every waking moment online.
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GPFontaine
Joined: Dec 06 2007
Location: Connecticut
PostPosted: Sep 01 2010 11:04 am Reply with quote Back to top

Syd,

I think that is partially what this is about.

The news is particularly confusing because Digg is in a huge leadership transition. It is hard to know what is due to the change in politics and what is because of the flawed system.



 
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SNESGuy
Title: El Duderino
Joined: Jul 31 2010
Location: Da D.C
PostPosted: Sep 01 2010 01:18 pm Reply with quote Back to top

Never have been on the site


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