Comments

• Sean Tilley

  2009-06-27 05:57:44

  I'm mostly bothered by what makes the front page of Digg anymore. Celebrity news, low-brow humour, and Apple's latest releases. It bothers me that user-submitted news has degraded to the point of being 90% spam. Part of the reason I cancelled my television subscription was to get away from that kind of thing! FS Daily is fairly good in comparison.
  
  While we're on topic, though: a lot of social networking sites have equally disappointed me. Myspace, YouTube, and Twitter all now lean dangerously into an overly commercialist style where all celebrities and users alike do is spread advertising for products.
  
  At the very least, there's identi.ca, FS Daily, TuxMachines, and a few other places that I can get some solid community news from.

• Yuhong Bao

  2009-06-26 17:43:33

  I never have read Digg, I read Slashdot instead. And ars technica also.

• BroWren

  2009-06-26 14:23:36

  Glad to see you had something up about this. :)
  
  I'm wondering if there might be some way to prove it using Digg's APIs - grab the ratings for all stories mentioning GNU/Linux and trend-graph the scores, maybe?
  
  If the data's available, it might also be interesting to see how many user accounts are common to the burials and if there's some sort of logic to it, maybe some sort of threshold score at which they start attacking.

• Roy Schestowitz

  2009-06-26 14:32:43

  What would you do with such data? Digg is unwilling to put an end to this and so is Slashdot. I think abandoning these sites is a better solution. I have over 3,000 'friends' (mostly people whom I don't know) in Digg, but I abandoned the site after posting over 13,000 comments there (I was the most prolific). There is mod-bombing and personal abuse from Microsoft spinners. See updates #2 and #4 here for example.

• Yuhong Bao

  2009-06-26 17:51:42

  Indeed, I never have read Digg, reading Slashdot instead.

• lalala

  2009-06-27 00:08:21

  So everyone that buried your "stories" and comments are Microsoft spinners?

• twitter

  2009-06-27 16:48:30

  Nice spin, lalala. When presented with evidence of a corporate effort to bury stories in community media, claim the presenter is paranoid and reframe their argument in a ridiculous way. The traditional names for these are smear and strawman. When M$ spinners dip to that kind of tactic, it is generally because they have nothing better.

• lalala

  2009-06-27 19:56:22

  twitter, read this comment slowly so maybe you'll be able to comprehend it. I didn't claim anything, I was asking a question. Did you not notice the question mark at the end of my comment? Besides, the question was for Roy, not you. Is Roy not able to answer questions directed towards him? Must his friends always answer for him? Is he too scared to answer me for some reason?
  
  Also, the whole "This person doesn't praise what Roy wrote so he or she must work for MS" thing is old, very old.

• ace

  2009-07-06 11:06:16

  Microsoft is just evil. People need to stop giving business to microsoft. Seriously.