I see Little Green Footballs and Hot Air are still going on about the problems with Digg. Basically, their stories that are submitted to Digg are then descended upon by a bunch of cyber-monkeys who do nothing but bury opinions they don’t like. Thus, as soon as an LGF post makes the front page of Digg, it’s soon removed for being marked as “inaccurate” or “spam” and thus LGF and other conservative sites miss the huge number of eyeballs that the front page of Digg delivers. It’s hard to say how many of the people who use Digg daily are left-wing nut balls, but my guess is it’s a small minority that spend all day prowling for any opinions that offend their senses and crushing said opinions. Still, it’s certainly enough people.
Efforts against this so far has seemed to be to appeal to a sense of fairness in these losers at Digg or to shame them for their fascists tendencies.
Hello! Have you guys ever met a liberal on the internet before? These people are so lost in their reality-based fantasy world where they valiantly wage war against Emperor ChimpyMcHilterburton that they are as immune to reason as Superman is to bullets. If the guys who run Digg don’t care about the rules being exploited to suppress certain viewpoints, then the only way to change things is to force a rule change by making things unworkable as they are. If making Digg fair is important to conservatives, then the only possibly effective course of action is to organize efforts to bury and mark as spam any entries from sites popular on Digg until everyone demands the ratings system be fixed.
Of course, this isn’t important to me so I won’t be joining. I did add the Digg option to posts on IMAO out of solidarity with the right-wing blogosphere, but I don’t see the point in pressing this any further. The same sort of thing going on at Digg has happened with YouTube and any entry on controversial topic on Wikipedia. What conservatives face here is more a force of nature. The people who rule the internet will always be those with the most spare time on their hands, and liberal weenies are always going to have an excess of spare time (why do you think they are the ones who do protests?). This isn’t a battle we can win, and I think it’s a waste of time to fight it.
If it keeps the libtards from having enough time for trolling, bury away!
1) So this would be the exact opposite of an Action Alert? Good concept! Picking battles with reason. But where will your ego get its power boost?
2) You mean “as Superman is to Kryptonite”, right?
Ooooo… Shim is gonna be mad that Frank is taking shot as Superman.
DIGG could make a simple rule change, only 1 bury a day, really who needs more than that? And you can only bury after you’ve been a member for 7 days. Without the ability to bury a few hundred items a day, the small group of cyber-monkeys will have to spank their own monkeys to pass the time. Certainly they are not reading the articles.
I linked to you from I died in less than 4 hours on DIGG
Why don’t the right-thinkers boycott DIGG? Don’t link to them or even go there to read anything. Let it become a left-wing ghetto. I can’t imagine that is what DIGG had in mind, but hey, if they can’t figure out a way to “let freedom ring” on their site, then they should have to live with 100% liberal (and therefore lesser) traffic.
I agree, conservatives can simply yawn at this kind of news source and go back to the real blogs like powerline.
I like the idea of them “Digging” in. What better way to show intolerance than to let the leftardistas decide what is ‘acceptable’ by their own biased acceptance levels. For example-
If it looks like a duck, talks like a duck, then it’s:
A) a duck
B) Bush’s fault
Any other ideas about it are EVIL!
I need so much more ammo to answer their questions on “correctness”.
Frank has nailed it.
Only those Libs without jobs can spend the time it takes do this. Typically, their Fascism cannot tolerate any difference of opinion. This is also why they seek so many Social Programs-so that they can continue to not have to work for a living.
The rest of us have to be gainfully employed.
If you go here http://digg.com/spy/queue and turn off all the checkmarks except the thumbs down, you can watch as stories are buried.