Comments on: 7 Reasons I Won’t Submit This To Digg

By: Sanimoyo

Sanimoyo — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 16:02:11 +0000

Cool post, i have to say that though I love digg as a realtime bookmark of all the sites I like, whenever i digg something, the best it gets is two diggs only.

By: Ryder Step

Ryder Step — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 17:16:34 +0000

Hehe, my ludicrous comment
“BARRIED!!!!! thiz storie iz crap!!!!!!!!!!!1111111111111″

was dugg down 22 times… That’s more than most of the articles I submit get dug up. Apparently the people of the internet don’t appreciate my sarcasm.

Also 743 diggs…. that’s nuts! (additionally all of the comments you made were dug WAY down… and i don’t think anyone realized that you did not submit it to digg.)

By: Brad

Brad — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 02:32:27 +0000

I’m the 20th comment! Have you had a 20 comment thread before?

By: winandmac.com

winandmac.com — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 02:29:06 +0000

[...] [via The Brain of Shawn] [...]

By: MWT

MWT — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 20:53:09 +0000

Sounds like Digg has become the online version of tabloids.

By: Jason Reznick

Jason Reznick — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 18:22:34 +0000

I used to be a frequent digger, but like a lot of the commenters here, it has been some time since I’ve visited the site. It has been relegated to that section of my RSS feed reader that I virtually never read.

This morning I was more bored than usual and clicked over to the digg feed to find this article, as well as the fact that digg re-discovered Desktop Tower Defense for the 500th time, along with a whole host of other INCREDIBLE and AMAZING things.

My favorite is the science section, which basically claims that we’ve cured both cancer and AIDS at least 100 times each in the last year so.

By: Brad

Brad — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 12:20:08 +0000

The comments for this article over at digg are probably the most coherent ones I have ever seen there.

Now that you have this formula for success you should make a youtube video about how much you dislike youtube.

By: Gary Schubert

Gary Schubert — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 11:48:51 +0000

Poor guy. Your server is already being owned by the Digg Effect – half of pages fail with 503 Service Temporarily Unavailable

I also regret I’ve bought GoDaddy hosting.

Anyway. Nice work on this article. Dugg!

By: Hedhli Ghassan

Hedhli Ghassan — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 11:35:40 +0000

Finally your post is on Digg’s frontpage, i’m glad that i found your blog.
digg traffic is never constant, sometimes i get 2000 visits for a post, but the next day it goes back to the usual 500 uniques

By: bobbknight

bobbknight — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 11:21:07 +0000

Yawn

By: digger

digger — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 11:09:19 +0000

best way to get on dig… write a number list of reasons

By: erichansa

erichansa — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 10:53:37 +0000

Not like one should care that much about digg anyway

By: juan

juan — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 10:47:55 +0000

You are on the digg front page lol

By: Marcel Gagné

Marcel Gagné — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 18:41:25 +0000

Digg? Is that site still aruond? I had heard rumours that Google bought it and shortly after it had gone the way of Orkut and Jaiku, never to be heard from again. [ Oooh, I am bound to get into trouble over that last part. ]
– Marcel (Writer and Free Thinker at Large) Gagné

Oh, Dugg.

By: Shawn Powers

Shawn Powers — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 18:10:00 +0000

Nathan — you made me laugh out loud when I read that. And I was in church. LOL! (seriously, hehehe)

Jeri — You’re absolutely correct, a lot of crap floats to the top in those sites. At work, part of our revenue is from web traffic, so submitting the good content does make sense. It’s the unpredictability that I find so humorous. This anti-digg post, for example, currently has 34 diggs.

By: Jeri

Jeri — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 18:05:13 +0000

I hadn’t been to Digg in a year until I Dugg Jim’s post on Downey Savings & Loan. And now I’m heading back over to add a digg to Carlie’s, just for the heck of it. Neener, neener, neener.

(I find online popularity contests to be kind of pointless too… because there’s a ton of great content out there that never gets Dugg/Reddit/Farked/Stumbled, and lots of sucky content that does.)

By: Nathan

Nathan — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 13:47:44 +0000

Nathan’s techno-deficient outing continues:

I’ve never Dugg or Reddit. I prefer to find my random reading the old fashioned way…by Googling “tentacle pron”.

By: Shawn Powers

Shawn Powers — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 13:29:45 +0000

LOL, you were serious, Carlie. And you submitted to reddit as well…

By: carlie

carlie — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 12:13:46 +0000

Dude, this is totally Digg worthy. Dugg.

By: Ryder Step

Ryder Step — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 06:51:58 +0000

I just went back to digg *i feel dirty now* and realized I haven’t used digg in over a year, actually June 2007

By: Ryder Step

Ryder Step — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 06:48:45 +0000

2) When I DO Write Great Stuff, No One Diggs It.

I think you should change this to “When I *THINK* I write great stuff, No One Diggs It.”

Just razzing you… BTW I stopped reading digg like 8 months ago, so you know I’m on your side… Digg’s comments have basically turned into the turdfest that is youtube comments.

*I will click on random youtube video on their homepage, and pick the comment that best describes what I am saying… Insert here*: “MY COUSINS TITS IS THE BEST GAME” Posted by:BIGDICKJOHNSON10 …

Case and point… sorry about the language, but when you scrape the bottom of the internet barrel that’s what you come up with.

By: Brad

Brad — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 01:32:49 +0000

I’m with you on this one Shawn. I stopped reading Digg a few months ago when every other article was about the love or hate of Ron Paul or the Iphone.

I think as people leave their community the remaining users get more and more unified on what they consider to be news.