   Officially disguisted with Digg
  I don't know how to describe this, but the best term I can think of at 4 a.m. is mob rule.  Technology news site turned into a "post the most random shit you can" site.  Every day it's clogged with such useless crap that everyone vouches for but no one actually checks out.  Hell, makes me value the slow-paced Slashdot news processing.   
  yeah I know what you mean...did you see the Shirtless Hunk blog someone posted?yeah. lame. And dupes are so fucking common it's disgusting. When Gates decided to step down from Microsoft the other day the entire first 2 pages of Digg For Stories were that story.   ;  Digg's comments section (particularly in the gaming topic) is the computer science equivalent of a very short bus.Their programming topic is almost entirely "LOL AJAX" and "WTF SOMEONE SAID AJAX APPS DON'T HAVE A BUSINESS MODEL LOL MY PERSONAL WEBSITE IS DOING FINE LOL LOLOLOLOL". [sick] I think I've seen an article up there that was intelligent once.It's in fact so bad that when I go to digg and see an interesting topic, I wait for the intelligence boost that Slashdot provides when they run it (it's effectively an intellectually non-threatening ur-Slashdot for 12 year olds). And I read The Joel Reddit for programminating informations.   ;  Isn't that site astroturfer heaven?   ;Quote:Original post by FrunyIsn't that site astroturfer heaven?It's hard to tell apart the astroturfers from the "normal" users there.   ;  I hereby reference the Official Mithopedia entry on "The Worst Places, Ever"Quote:The Worst Places, Ever.From Mithopedia TA EditionListed from absolute worst to not so worst:    * Myspace    * DIGG    * GameFAGs    * OKCupid    * Slashdot ;Quote:Original post by MithrandirI hereby reference the Official Mithopedia entry on "The Worst Places, Ever"I remember we had a fight over whether or not GameFAQs was indeed worse than Digg. We should probably show them random other entries, too.   ;Quote:Original post by RavuyaQuote:Original post by FrunyIsn't that site astroturfer heaven?It's hard to tell apart the astroturfers from the "normal" users there.Q.E.D.   ;Quote:Original post by FrunyQuote:Original post by RavuyaQuote:Original post by FrunyIsn't that site astroturfer heaven?It's hard to tell apart the astroturfers from the "normal" users there.Q.E.D.I figured it bore reinforcement in case any Digg users wandered by.   ;Quote:Original post by RavuyaQuote:Original post by MithrandirI hereby reference the Official Mithopedia entry on "The Worst Places, Ever"I remember we had a fight over whether or not GameFAQs was indeed worse than Digg. We should probably show them random other entries, too.Quote:Does the Pope shit in the woods?From Mithopedia TA Edition"Does the Pope shit in the woods?" is a popular philosophical question posed by the great Jeffrey Lebowski. The worlds best philosophers have been working on this problem for years, and at last have reached a conclusion:Yes. The Pope shits in the woods. 