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eobanb

digg: not what it appears

Apr 03, 2006 19:08

Kevin Rose tries to sell digg.com as a completely democratic way of sorting through news. A user submits an article, and, if enough people 'digg' the article (that is, click on a link that improves that submission's score), then the story eventually appears on the front page (after somewhere between 30 and 60 people have dugg it). The ( Read more... )

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dead_freq April 3 2006, 23:37:20 UTC

wow. you should write a formal article of this, then digg it.

eobanb April 3 2006, 23:50:05 UTC

Looks like Trent already did :P

anonymous April 4 2006, 00:04:21 UTC

Conspiracy theory: hidden bash.org like moderators that can promote a story to the front page by digging it say 50 times in one click from a load of pretend users.

natnw.com (not a tech news website) is still available if anyone wants to do better.

Digg story killed anonymous April 4 2006, 00:19:15 UTC

After 36 diggs and 12 comments, the story was killed. That was quick. And apparently you can't search for it anymore.

Re: Digg story killed anonymous April 4 2006, 00:20:45 UTC

Dude, holy shit. Something is going down.

Re: Digg story killed eobanb April 4 2006, 00:51:34 UTC

Revision3 really needs to stop 'revising' digg so much.

Original link here: anonymous April 4 2006, 00:23:31 UTC

http://www.digg.com/technology/Digg_Staff_Removing_Articles_With_Conflicts_Of_Interest_#c1375606

Sorry, linked to a specific comment

Post to reddit anonymous April 4 2006, 01:01:20 UTC

Someone should post this to www.reddit.com