Comments on: Google Doesn’t Favor Google; Should Digg Stop Promoting Digg?

By: Anita

Anita — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Digg doesn’t prevent stories from hitting the frontpage unless a site or user has been banned. They include their own site in this, which is fine with me.

Why not? If fans want to digg Digg stories, that’s their prerogative. If fans want to digg every single article Kevin Rose posts, including odd posts on how to make root beer, that’s fine as well.

Diggers love Digg, and should be allowed to promote Digg stories to the homepage. Preventing this just seems backwards. There’s even been at least one case where a digg staffer’s post was buried (Jay’s attempt at clearing up the HD-DVD code was mass buried once the mob took over the site).

By: Josh

Josh — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I am completely okay with employees of Digg writing a story on their blog and allowing the community at large to elevate it to the front page.

In Google’s case it is different in that the public is not elevating Google properties to the top of the page, but Google itself, hypothetically.

By: centernetworks

centernetworks — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Darren - I believe he had frankenberries this morning in case you are interested.

They are fanboys of whatever the flow is at the current time. If one bashes it, they all bash it.

You have to also realize that the fanboys would love to have digg blowup and say they caused it.

By: Sudhanshu

Sudhanshu — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

If you make a lot of money on the first startup, and you use the same money for the second one. Should that be allowed. More on this blog

By: Darren Stuart not logged in

Darren Stuart not logged in — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Totally agree Allen, I think Kevin shouldn’t post the stories and that would be fine.

on another note I actaully am really bored with reading about what Kevin Rose has for breakfast on techcrunch.

I used to use digg serveral times a day but I am guy that likes to join in a comment on stuff and diggs average user seems to have turned into an ass.

They seem to be mostly Apple fanboys and the posts about the new ad relationship between digg and Microsoft proved that. These idiots where going to start using ad blocking software just because the ad network was MS. What they don’t get is if they all did that then digg’s revenue stream would be fecked.

By: David Berkowitz

David Berkowitz — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

If this was entirely being gamed by digg’s staff I’d have some issues with this, but the whole point of digg is the community votes up stories. Communities are inherently insular.