Digg users are immature…

Grow up you self-absorbed inadequate little jerk.

A NOTE FROM ZACH: I didn’t delete this post, usually I do. This is the typical digg user of today. Thanks for proving my point Phil!

I think the reason a lot of blog-linked posts get hate is because quite a few of them are little more than some jackass trying to drive traffic to his weblog. Most of the time, the blog-linked stories aren’t even useful or relevant, its just somebody who wants attention or ad revenue. That’s annoying as hell, and I’m not at all surprised that some people have the balls to speak out against it. Useless blog stories get buried over and over again, and yet people keep submitting them. Obviously getting your stories buried is not enough to make a person understand that people aren’t interested in reading their whining or rambling or whatever. Maybe receiving a hail of abuse will get their attention?

I agree, I think comments should be edited and users who flame should be prevented from being able to comment on digg.

Instead of trying to remove people who say things you don’t like to hear, why don’t you take advantage of the ‘block/report’ functionality that digg offers? Nobody forces you to read those flames, and you have the option of not seeing them if you don’t want to. “too much freedom” is nonsense. Take advantage of the functionality that digg offers and get on with life.

Thanks for the good comments guys. I took advantage of block/report, but in the glory days of digg I didn’t have to, the comments were related to story, maybe links to other pages or more information, not just bashing. Thanks for the input.

I totally agree. I use digg… but I don’t comment because of that very reason. Newsvine is great if you want a more “grown up” community. If you need an invite just send me an email or something.

Kristin, thanks for the comment. I’ve been using newsvine for a few weeks, but it doesn’t have that digg like feel. But it is starting to grow on me…

if somebody would be so kind as to mail a newsvine invitation to the USER zamwidotcom AT THE DOMAIN gurney DOT dissimulo DOT com, I would be ever so grateful. I’ve been wanting to check that out for months now, but I don’t know the right people :-\

Sure nomen nescio, I’ll hook you up. You should know though that newsvine will be public in a matter of weeks though. But I’ll drop you a line. Anyone else interested?

I still use digg, you can find some good articles on there sometimes, but I signed up for newsvine awhile back and I haven’t really used it as much as I want to, but I like that it’s more mature. I wonder how long that’ll last once it goes public?

Jess, I feel the same way about newsvine, I like it but it just can’t replace digg. I don’t use digg as much as I used to, I pretty much just watch the front page RSS feed and see if something is appealing, I’m still looking for something to top it.

zach we will delete pansies like that on our network

I didnt say that comment at the top of the page just in case you thought it was me.

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