Comments on: Linux/Unix Censorship on Digg.com?

By: Blair Phanor

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By: Schedule

Schedule — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 11:44:05 +0000

Maybe you should make changes to the page name title Linux/Unix Censorship on Digg.com? | fsckin w/ linux to more generic for your content you create. I liked the post nevertheless.

By: Ethan

Ethan — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 05:44:46 +0000

Hello. Great job. I did not expect this on a Wednesday. This is a great story. Thanks!

By: creditto

creditto — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 21:02:47 +0000

hey
its very point of view.
Good post.
realy gj

thank you

By: Penguin Pete

Penguin Pete — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 01:21:28 +0000

I wrote a blues song about this once. It's called " Digg is like a Manic-Depressive Girlfriend". Don't go chasing after her, she'll just break your heart. Even she doesn't know what she likes.

By: cbreaker

cbreaker — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 20:29:10 +0000

Digg is brutal. It’s a big popularity contest, and the average user age is way too young for serious tech talk. It’s all about the big comment that gets 500 digg clicks; it’s not about discussion.

Digg.com didn’t used to be a pro-Microsoft site, but somehow the Xbox 360 managed to turn it into one. I guess that makes sense with the age of the users. They all bought 360′s because it was cheaper then the PS3, and like teenagers, they’ll defend a purchase to death. If you defend a company like Microsoft for long enough, you might start believing the bullshit you put forth.

That’s my guess, anyways.

By: Brutus

Brutus — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 15:00:48 +0000

I’ve got bored by Digg long time ago (well yes, more like long Internet time ago). It’s mostly lame stuff and microsoft hype with the occasional entertaining story here and there and comments on Digg are even worst than on most similar sites, wonder who got paid to write those in his freetime. The attitude towards Foss wasn’t great, even in the beginning, but keeps getting more and more “hostile” fast. Their videocast goes in the same direction but is at least entertaining as hell, in a good way… I still watch it from time to time…

After all, Digg and especially Diggnation is one of the most successful image campaigns for microsoft in a long time and by far the site with the most Linux/Open Source bashing I know (and regarded something similar to “cool” by a wide audience at the same time). I don’t think (or care if) that was planed, but it turns out as one of the few things that manage to sell a cool microsoft image to the kids and by now microsoft will probably do a lot to keep it that way.

OK, enough with the hysterical conspiracy stuff. I personally really don’t care about boring Internet wannabe hipsters without technological (or otherwise interesting) background, so Digg and it’s crowd is nothing I care for as target audience, but Digg is a big thingy and being generally buried or flamed there is probably a annoying thing for lot’s of people in the Floss community.

Well annoying and somewhat aggravating this is for sure but I don’t think it’s that big of a problem, there are a lot of similar sites out there on the net (probably some of them even better fitting to Linux and such things).

So as maybe not a fix but a workaround I would recommend you use some more of them. I’m really don’t know much about such stuff but http://www.newsvine.com/ and http://www.mister-wong.com/ come to mind and of course RedIt but you already have this.

Well anyway, please keep doing what your doing, i really enjoy and appreciate it. And keep us posted on the whole Digg situation.

By: Wayne

Wayne — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 04:36:59 +0000

I’ll definitely keep posting new content, this is an enjoyable use of my free time, I guess there is some good news:
After an email exchange with Digg Support: http://gobnf.org/i/fnp/banned4.gif

http://digg.com/offbeat_news/Digg:_foxnewsporn.com_Unbanned_

I still haven’t heard anything back from Digg yet… I’ll give it a few days and try again.

By: Sonny Burnett

Sonny Burnett — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 04:14:06 +0000

Microsoft has a business deal with Digg. I dont remember about what (ads if i remember), but they have it. It was reported time ago.

By: PredatoryFern

PredatoryFern — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 00:50:17 +0000

Can’t say I really have any suggestions concerning politics or dealing with people as I really don’t like either topic. I first came here from digg and stuck around after the first router OS review.

I usually use digg to find random interesting things across the web. Slashdot doesn’t post enough, thought most of the articles are new and interesting. Digg about 6 months back and earlier was quite interesting but it’s been getting worse as of late.

As senseless and seemingly useless as it sounds, there aren’t a lot of things you can do. You can go vigliante (http://malcor.blogspot.com/), you can keep doing what you’re doing or you can give up. I hope you keep doing what you’re doing and that it goes well for you Wayne. I’ll be reading (I’m trying to get into FOSS as I’m currently finishing my MCSA next week) and I’m pulling for you.