How User-Oriented is Digg.com?
If you’re still unaware of this, please visit Digg.com now and you’ll get what I mean. Digg.com has provoked its users over a group of numbers. These numbers are used to crack HDDVD with certain tools. For those who are interested, maybe this forum will lead you there.
Now, let’s focus on Digg.com. I cannot point you to any particular story because the site is flooded with spams as of this time I’m writing. I will try to explain the situation to you as detail as I can.
Introduction to Digg.com
Just in case you do not know, Digg.com is a user-oriented news site. Users discover web pages on the Web, submit the pages as stories, other users can comment on and rate the story. If a story has enough votes, it will go to Digg.com’s main page. Digg.com used to have a lot of love from its users for the democracy it embraces.
The Cause
It all started here, and then here(Warning: HUGE page load). This Digg user CJ, has re-submitted a story that Digg.com purposely deleted, and then he’s banned from the site. He thought that he did not deserve that, and all the actions started.
The Situation
Many, in this case, countless of so called “Geeks” have supported the campaign “Spread This Number”. As you can see on Digg.com main page, or via RSS feed. There are a lot of on-going story submissions, mostly without valid links to the original stories, in other word, spam.
Here’s a screenshot I’ve taken.
And here’s some random comments I would like to quote.
“This genie is already out of the bottle, so there is no more reason for you people to pollute the Digg with this asinine bullshit.”
Too fucking bad. People are angry with Digg when they thought this was a good community. Many people discovered that Digg is in partnership with HD-DVD and are outraged by the fact. It seems people are sharing their thoughts by spamming digg with B.S. stories (and many others are digging them to the frontpage.)
This all could have been avoided but Kevin Rose handled the situation very poorly. Better luck next time. - By jon_k
“violate any laws in your jurisdiction”
And if your NOT violating laws in your jurisdiction?
The reality here is its far too late to put the genie back in the bottle. Unless the AACS people have a way to deal with the reality that this number is known, then to attack the freedom of speech of large numbers of people for pointless and in itself a cause for concerned action.
digg has many problems with its lack of moral and ethical understanding, with this just being one example. They are far too quick to attack users, ban them and try to impose their concerns on others. Its no good saying they can do what they like because they are not the government - everyone has to be held to moral and ethical standards in how they behave. That includes respect for the basic human rights which include freedom of speech.
digg should unban all those they have attacked in their desire to chase cash. And apologise. - By digghasnoethics
You can feel the angry mob simply by picking a random comment on the site now.
The Consequence
I do not know. This is by far the biggest flamefest I’ve seen on the Web, and ironically, it happens on the site that is being flamed at, big time!
Moral of the story
Say NO to Internet censorship.
What do you have to say?
Update:Digg.com’s founder made a reply here. Please go and read about it.
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