Digg Spam Sucks - Gizmodo Comments

Digg Spam Sucks

Tamar Weinberg — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 21:27:56 EDT

One more thing - Gawker's servers can generally handle Digg traffic better than other sites. If we link to the original product, that traffic might even bring the other server down for a short while, thereby making businesses lose potential sales.

So yeah, that's my $0.04 - hope that you understand the Digger mentality too. :)

Tamar Weinberg

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Tamar Weinberg — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 17:05:32 EDT

"It's not fair when we get the Digg for someone else's work."

Here's the thing, Brian -- and this is something I thought about after you, Lifehacker, and Valleywag instituted your policies about Digging:

While you're right that it's not fair for you to take credit for someone else's work, the reason why your posts get Dugg (at least by me) is usually because your commentary about a particular product is vastly superior to description from the source site. Who really wants to Digg a product page of a gadget when Gizmodo has a witty description and a great headline? (For the record, Digg users hate Product Pages and that will do them no good anyway. I can imagine that it will almost be an instant bury for "Spam.")

Maybe these writers should look to hire you -- because you deserve the credit for your humor. That's what the Digg community likes. That's why I actually submitted a story to Digg from Gizmodo highlighting a product on another site. It ended up becoming popular because my Digg submission was inspired by your headline and descriptions, both which were missing (and completely boring) on the source sites.

Tamar Weinberg

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Fluidity — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 08:03:25 EDT

Dugg

Fluidity

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danboarder — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 04:58:53 EDT

First of all, Digg is a social bookmarking tool.

As such, many any users of Digg (like myself) use Digg to store bookmarks of articles I would like to read again later, send to a friend, etc. Some people use del.icio.us , I use Digg.

Let people digg what they want. Calling my personal bookmarks 'digg spam' is viewing the function of digg from the wrong perspective.

danboarder

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Truepatriot — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 22:39:51 EDT

dugg it! i like the no more digg spam and this is on digg. head asplodes!

much <3 gizmodo

Truepatriot

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scarbrtj — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 21:51:33 EDT

Hopefully Iwanttodiggthis will go on the lam re: excessive digging.

You know I've been dying to use that.

scarbrtj

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Collins1990 — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 19:26:50 EDT

@Brian - I suppose this all goes back to the anonimity-of-the-internet thing. People think anything goes and some people fail to respect boundaries, or even fail to use common sense. Still, I suppose this article gaining so many diggs will mean people should have got your message by now.

Collins1990

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Brian Lam — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 19:22:04 EDT

It's not a publicity stunt. I buried the digg. Yet again, people not thinking straight before clicking.

Brian Lam

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Collins1990 — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 19:16:30 EDT

You know what? I reckon this is just a publicity stunt because they knew you morons what get digg-happy.

Collins1990

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Azdak — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 16:41:07 EDT

hehe my bad...I'm the one who submitted the iPhone SDK story. I was all excited too, first thing i EVER submit and it made front page.

Azdak

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Alchymist — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 16:38:52 EDT

Lol its at 1459 At the moment, I admit it, I dugg it !

Come on Brian... you asked for it xD

Alchymist

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Michael — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 15:44:02 EDT

I want to know what could possibly make Brian get pissed at this free advertising.

I suggest everyone digg every Gizmodo story from now on.

Michael

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StationRipper — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 15:40:27 EDT

Going to make the top 24 hour list, too funny. And yeah, I dugg it :)

StationRipper

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sprice82 — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 15:12:52 EDT

Digg got pissed at you guys didnt they.

sprice82

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stopsucking — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 15:04:11 EDT

Dugg down for...oh shoot wrong comment system.

stopsucking

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ryan s — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 14:45:07 EDT

Than your CMS needs to give you the option to turn off the digg buttons on particular stories. That might help.

ryan s

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Norbert — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 14:25:19 EDT

You guys must be reading the Digg comments. Nice job.

Norbert

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bentcorner — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 14:14:54 EDT

If you don't want people to digg your articles, dont include a digg button on each article? You cannot complain when people press a button you provide.

Unless you just like complaining.

bentcorner

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Amsterdaam — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 14:04:15 EDT

Yeah, cause I hate it when people give me free advertising.

If the internet was a real place, Iwanttodiggthis would be one of the kids putting your stickers up everywhere the eye could see.

Amsterdaam

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Amsterdaam — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 14:02:39 EDT

Yeah, cause I ha

Amsterdaam

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wishnias — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 14:01:58 EDT

up to 643, 2pmEST

wishnias

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Brian Lam — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 13:54:08 EDT

BTW, I appreciate iwanttodiggthis's patronage, but too much digging is no good.

Brian Lam

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skeeve — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 13:38:58 EDT

http://digg.com/tech_news/Gizmodo_Digg_Spam_Sucks
lol

skeeve

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bupsy — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 13:31:51 EDT

does this count as original content?

bupsy

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BadBoyNDSU — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 13:28:11 EDT

Front Page of DIGG...

BadBoyNDSU

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evilmregg — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 13:26:18 EDT

189 Diggs and counting...

evilmregg

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Paradise — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 13:09:11 EDT

BAN HAMMER

Paradise

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OBM — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 13:00:08 EDT

lol that's you told iwanttodiggthis

OBM

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Collins1990 — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 12:42:02 EDT

It's either not ironic at all, or extremely ironic. If anyone has a dual-core brain and can handle that many strains of irony, can you sort this out. Akifbayram and I would like to know.

That is all. Thank you.

Collins1990

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akifbayram — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 12:30:42 EDT

Oh how Ironic.

Submitter: iwanttodiggthis

akifbayram

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Collins1990 — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 12:24:33 EDT

How many sad people are going to digg this article?

Collins1990