Comments on: Digg: HD DVD Fanbois

By: for loans

for loans — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 21:02:16 +0000

wow :)
its very interesting article.
Good post.
realy gj

thx :-)

By: Blind Morton Henkin

Blind Morton Henkin — Thu, 03 May 2007 11:08:47 +0000

Trash heep? Is that Uriah Heep’s second cousin? Tsk.

By: Jon

Jon — Wed, 02 May 2007 17:01:10 +0000

Metagg – you got to admit this was a “damned if you do, damned if you don’t” type situation, there wasn’t any good way out of it. Now the worst kept secret on the net is out to the masses, though I bet 99.999% of the people out there have no clue what to even do with this knowledge.

Jon

By: Metagg

Metagg — Wed, 02 May 2007 16:34:39 +0000

My site’s frontpage also looked like Digg’s yesterday because everyone, from Slashdot, Reddit, Delicious, or Digg, was talking about the HD-DVD crack. If you didn’t know about the crack before, you do now. I am not sure the HD-DVD consortium knew what they were getting themselves into when they sent that cease and desist letter…-Metagg

By: Jon

Jon — Wed, 02 May 2007 11:47:12 +0000

Blue-ray won the race, who cares about the keys to a soon-to-be obsolete technology. Maybe this is all a marketing ploy to get a few more headlines before this technology joins the trash heep along with all those Zunes! ;-)

Jon

By: Vaspers the Grate

Vaspers the Grate — Wed, 02 May 2007 06:43:08 +0000

Their servers are NOT melting down.

Digg is busy deleting accounts of passionate users who question their policies, and this is typical of Digg, according to numerous accounts.

By: Vaspers the Grate

Vaspers the Grate — Wed, 02 May 2007 06:42:04 +0000

DRM is evil. RIAA is evil. MPAA is evil.

Hooray for the Universal Content Utopia.

Digg is funded by HD DVD. Digg is … done.

By: tank6b

tank6b — Wed, 02 May 2007 06:14:12 +0000

Let´s Make some History
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_www_war

By: charles

charles — Wed, 02 May 2007 06:10:22 +0000

why delete? it’s all ready out?

isn’t just making it wore? i’m not sure i understand…..
doesn’t deleting over and over just piss those people posting off?
oh well i guess.

By: Adam

Adam — Wed, 02 May 2007 05:44:57 +0000

Nick, I don’t think they are actively deleting stories anymore. By the looks of things their servers are melting down. A big site like Digg can’t rely on a single server, so they put all of the information on multiple servers. Usually, when you contribute to the site (digg, comment, bury etc) the other servers would get notified instantly. But the servers just can’t keep up with it. So by the time you refresh the page you may be on a different server, a server that hasn’t become aware of your submissions.

The same has happened to me with comments. They seem to just disappear, but a few refreshes later and they are there again.

By: Nick

Nick — Wed, 02 May 2007 05:20:54 +0000

Digg’s actually auto-deleting a lot of the stories that have that stupid number or HD-DVD in the title. I was messing around with submitting stories about the fiasco linking to my blog (yes, I’m guilty of trying to take advantage of the mob rule ;) and noticed that several of my stories completely disappeared. While I think that it sucks that the digg homepage is being flooded with shit stories, I think trying to censor further is just going to keep adding fuel to the fire.
Nick
http://www.adgridwork.com | free online advertising for bloggers

By: Night of the Living Number

Night of the Living Number — Wed, 02 May 2007 04:07:41 +0000

There I did it!!! I feel better now :)

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By: Ben

Ben — Wed, 02 May 2007 03:36:13 +0000

Digg never removed outright stories about scientology (even though they are very litigious) nor blatantly racist stories (and there have been a lot.)

This is a lesson that Digg can be bought, you just need to buy a lot of advertising with Digg’s parent company. In a way, it isn’t that different from major newspapers who are loath to run stories that are critical of their major advertisers. It is a story of corruption and media censorship by big business.

Do you think HD-DVD knew what they were doing when they got themselves into a major relationship with Digg that gave HD-DVD a lot of leverage.

By: PastDigger

PastDigger — Wed, 02 May 2007 03:13:40 +0000

Well they’ve lost alot active users..

Dont get me wrong they probably wont leave but they will harbour resentment to digg for a long time, and worse they’ll miss-use digg and/or abuse it when possible..

I know i will

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 02 May 2007 03:13:06 +0000

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By: Ben

Ben — Wed, 02 May 2007 02:40:00 +0000

Also, it should be noted that Digg’s parent company has signed a lucrative sponsorship arrangement with HD-DVD. There is a business conflict of interest here that motivated Digg to proactively respond to this issue in a fashion that is much harsher and less open than the way Google responds to such take down notices. This is a story of behind the scenes corporate interests dictating behavior.