ErikH2000
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I've been looking at Digg for a while, and at first glance, it looks like a good place to get coverage of some DROD news occasionally. The concept of Digg is that anyone can go and mod up news items to get them to show more prominently. The people running it don't seem to mind "get-out-the-vote" efforts, because of course, it brings them new readers and they grow more powerful.

So who wants to rock the vote? I posted a news article about Virtual Burning Man. If getting a bit more attention for DROD and our forum seems like a worthy cause, and you don't mind the effort, then try this out:

1. Go to http://digg.com and log in. If you don't have an account there, it only takes a minute to fill out the forms and do the e-mail verification. Then you are a fully legitimate Digg citizen! (By the way, I don't mind recommending the site to you. I actually think it's a pretty cool place to get news, and not yet overrun with the Slashdot brand of kneejerk cynicism.)

2. Browse to this article I wrote, and as long as you think it's appropriately interesting news for Digg, click on the "Digg it!" button. Bam! That puts us a little bit closer to making the front page.

It should be fun to see how many diggs we can get. I admit that I may have a flawed understanding of how the system works, but it seems possible we could push the article into the light. For the sake of honor, please don't use extra e-mail addresses to vote multiple times. We aren't out to cheat our way in. Also, if you put in a digg, post here so we can keep track of how many diggs come from the DROD community versus other users.

-Erik

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NiroZ
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2 problems.

1. There is alot of smacktards on Digg. There are still good people there, but there is enough smacktards to make me avoid the comments as much as possible.(do we really want them?)

2. The diggers(thats what the Digg community call themselves) don't like astro turf campaigns. I would say that this would be borderline, but it will be interesting to see what happends.

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Well, I've never been a visitor of digg, but... what the heck. Dugg.


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Mattcrampy
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astro turf = fake grassroots campaigns?

There are smacktards everywhere, and it's not like we can push this up to the top of Digg unless it genuinely appeals to people.

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ErikH2000
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NiroZ wrote:
1. There is alot of smacktards on Digg. There are still good people there, but there is enough smacktards to make me avoid the comments as much as possible.(do we really want them?)

It's a good question, but I imagine that the low barrier to entry of forum sign-up will discourage bored little jerks with short attention spans from doing much.

2. The diggers(thats what the Digg community call themselves) don't like astro turf campaigns. I would say that this would be borderline, but it will be interesting to see what happends.

Yeah, I guess I've heard it both ways from my perusal. It seems that some of the diggers are worried about it and others aren't. Still, I don't want to pollute another site with unwanted garbage, which is why I say, vote for the article if you think it is good news to go on Digg.

-Erik

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NiroZ
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Mattcrampy wrote:
astro turf = fake grassroots campaigns?

Sorry, bad wording. You get the idea though

There are smacktards everywhere, and it's not like we can push this up to the top of Digg unless it genuinely appeals to people.

true, but there are always places with more smacktards than others. for example compare the people who play multiplayer Civ 4 to those who play Counterstrike: Source.

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The article has been dugg(by me).

I'd be glad to see this reach the front page of Digg, but unless the Digg crowd votes it up this probably won't happen.
Digg is set up so that the votes of newer users are less effective for getting things to the front page.
An article can have anywhere from around 20 to around 100 votes before being promoted to the front page, depending on who is voting for it.

Although I like Digg, personally I find that reddit is generally a better site, with its downmodding, recommendation system, and better comments.
Not that I don't use Digg.
My collection of 65 pages of dugg articles is proof that I obviously do.

-William

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I recently started looking into Digg myself. Digging an article like this has motivated me to register

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The Digg has been Dugg.

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RoboBob3000 wrote:
*digdug picture*

We can close the thread now, we're done.

chinook
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Dugged. Brought it up to 22.

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trick
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Ah, Dig Dug. I once typed in a C64 version of that game from a magazine. The listing spanned several pages, and was written entirely in hex codes. Thank god it had a checksum mechanism built in ..

Banjooie wrote:
We can close the thread now, we're done.

You know, you seem like a nice guy, but I'm kinda glad you're not a moderator here. I mean, half the forum would be closed.

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can't speak for anything else he's said, but I took this response as a pure joke about "now that we've gone from digg to "Dig-Dug" we've covered the spectrum" and thus not really a call for the closing of the thread. nor really anything offensive in any way.



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I don't know which is worse, the fact that we're talking about Banjooie in a Digg thread, or the fact that I of all people actually got the Dig Dug joke before somebody explained it.

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trick wrote:
You know, you seem like a nice guy, but I'm kinda glad you're not a moderator here. I mean, half the forum would be closed.

- Gerry

Yes. Snipped. In their prime. Like /roses/.

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Banjooie wrote:
Yes. Snipped. In their prime. Like /roses/.

You're not by any chance a gardener, are you ? I can picture you now, darting from rosebush to rosebush with roses in your teeth; leaving nothing but huge unbroken fields of thorns in your wake.

- Gerry <3

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No, I just play one on TV.

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Banjooie wrote:
No, I just play one on TV.

I saw that episode! That was you?!

Man, I thought you were younger. And the opposite sex.

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