Saturday, January 06, 2007

Yep... that's what I have been saying...

Some social sites that let anybody create content end up with just what you think they will end up with. And it steams, too.

It is amazing to me that there is such a hallyballoo about DIGG. Kinda cool idea, sort of... maybe. I dunno, don't really get it. The whole social site phenomena of being built on a single idea (DIGG up - DIGG down) and then letting a bunch of people with no criteria and serious anger management problems take it down the crapper is, well, weird. This guy had his run-in with the rabid and posts about it here. Every place develops their own type of clientele... and these guys show what kind of clientele DIGG hosts. Classy, really classy.
I started to become concerned. What did he mean "you had better see what they are posting about you?" So I went back to that digg submission and saw immediately that my comment was dugg down to death. It had something like -300 diggs in less than an hour. I was shocked. What got everybody so pissed off? So I started reading some of the replies. This is what I saw:

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