Comments on: Digg: Social Media Consumer Revolt

By: webomatica

webomatica — Wed, 02 May 2007 19:36:31 +0000

eng, true, if only the power of the digg mob could be harnessed towards something more useful than defending the “right” to pirate movies.

By: engtech

engtech — Wed, 02 May 2007 19:25:20 +0000

Armchair activism at it’s best. Copy and paste a 32-digit key all over the internet versus preventing something like the DMCA from becoming law.

All of us tech types are guilty of this.

By: Ross

Ross — Wed, 02 May 2007 16:40:16 +0000

I found the whole thing quite fascinating, but at the same time it made reading digg completely worthless yesterday. I just woke up so I haven’t read digg yet today, but I glanced at the front page titles (via netvibes) and things seem to be back to normal.

By: tunequest

tunequest — Wed, 02 May 2007 16:28:00 +0000

“a bunch of party animals who say whatever they want with no consequences, in the name of free beer and hot babes.”

If that’s not bubble mentality, I don’t know what is.

But now that digg has “dugg” (ahhh, puns) in its heels, the legal eagle in me is fascinated to see how this turns out.

As an aside, I did a Google search for “the number” and it returned 44,000 pages.

By: Digg and the Complications of the Social News Model ¦ Online Media Cultist

Digg and the Complications of the Social News Model ¦ Online Media Cultist — Wed, 02 May 2007 15:48:06 +0000

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By: webomatica

webomatica — Wed, 02 May 2007 15:41:12 +0000

Tunequest, good points. I do agree that the revolt was quite revolting in terms of mob mentality, but I do think it’s no surprise knowing the community Digg has been fostering over the past few months – a bunch of party animals who say whatever they want with no consequences, in the name of free beer and hot babes. The sheer number of digg users also makes anonimity possible even with a login which can also foster bad behavior.

I think Tony Hung has a good take on it, that as you say AACS kinda dug this hole for themeselves, Digg “dugg” this hole for themselves as well.

By: tunequest

tunequest — Wed, 02 May 2007 15:28:38 +0000

AACS kinda dug this hole for themselves when it published the hd-dvd key in a court document (a public record).

But the behavior of the “digg community” (to whatever extant that exists) is just appalling. I don’t want to get into the ethics, “rightness” or legality of either side on this debate, but the immature mob actions of digg’s users is pure anarchy, which is quite off-putting.

I think it’s telling that all this passion has sprung up because of the code that will enable copying of hd-dvd movies. Freedom of information is a noble cause, but it seems to take the potential for “free” movies to spring all the warriors into action.

By: Digg Founder Choose The Right But Delicate Path » SELaplana

Digg Founder Choose The Right But Delicate Path » SELaplana — Wed, 02 May 2007 08:10:05 +0000

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By: webomatica

webomatica — Wed, 02 May 2007 04:34:56 +0000

Ah yeah, I think you’re right: 22570 diggs. I’ll add that to the article.

By: Ross

Ross — Wed, 02 May 2007 04:17:16 +0000

I wouldn’t bet my life on it, but I *think* that the iphone story is the one that has the most diggs (http://www.digg.com/apple/Apple_Announces_iPhone_2) @ 22k.

I suspect todays 15k hd-dvd post would have broken 22k if it wasn’t pulled…