I’ve really begun to believe that Digg is one big malodorous, mephitic, noisome, odiferous, stinking pile of feces and has little or no values for anything. Today I received an email from Digg that they had updated their user profile areas. Here’s the email.
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Lots of new changes coming to Digg! We’re excited to introduce you to the new Digg Profiles. With over fifty new features, we’ve completely revamped our profiles from the ground up - making it easy for you to share your favorite Digg stories with friends. If you’d like to see them in action, visit Digg or get a walk through of some of the new features in this video.
Because Digg enables people to share information with one another, the policies for how you use Digg and how we treat your privacy on Digg are very important to us. As part of this release, we have updated our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy, which we encourage you to check out. Some highlights to note:
* Digg will notify you via email when certain activities happen, such as when someone adds you as a friend or a story you submit becomes popular. You can control what emails you want to receive in the Email Settings section of your Digg User Profile.
* You can easily find your friends’ Profiles on Digg by searching for them by their email address. If you don’t want to enable others to search for your Digg Profile by your email address, or if you want to manage what personal information to display in your Digg Profile, you can reflect this in your Privacy Settings.
The best way to learn more about these changes is to try out Digg Profiles for yourself. Visit Digg.com, login, and click the Profile button at the top of any page on the site.
Cheers,
The Digg Crew
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To begin with, the losers at Digg had banned my Digg account and many other DigitalPoint Forum members accounts because we were social networking and digging each others articles that were all very good articles. Correct me if I’m wrong, but making friends on forums who read your blog and digg your new articles hardly seems to be a reason to ban numerous accounts. On top of that, they removed all the stories I Dugg and all the stories my friends had dugg in the past. Ok, fair enough, if Digg wants to destroy their crappy community, that’s their business, but if my account was banned, Why the HELL is my email still on their mailing list?” This kind of stuff really annoys me more than anything, ban a user, remove their contributions but don’t remove their email from your mailing list. Nice going Digg, you suck worse than I previously thought and are now a spammer in my book.
Outraged, I decided to go over and look at Digg again and see what was on top for today and I came across a wonderful suprise as to what the most popular story on Digg was. Have a peek at the image below.

The Word Asstunnels Gets Viral ???? Very interesting concept to be at the top of Digg, so I simply couldn’t resist and I clicked on the Asstunnel article and realized why Digg is such a turd and is an Asstunnel of it’s own. Here’s the amazing post that made it to the top of Digg. Be forwarned all you serious bloggers and content creators out there who spend hours researching and writing high quality articles that would never see the light of day on Digg, here’s all you have to do to please the anal Digg gods…
The Word Asstunnels Gets Viral
Posted on Thu 20 Sep 2007, 09:08:39 by Bogaa - 8 comments
This post is actually quite funny, in our previous blog entry Markus used the word “Asstunnel”, this word seems to be “Sweeping the Nation”. Let’s see how long it takes before it gets really viral.
Several people tried to decode the meaning of the word, here’s the best description I’ve found (from the Arstechnica forums):
asstun�nel [asstuhn-l] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation noun, verb, -neled, -nel�ing or (especially British) -nelled, -nel�ling. �noun
1.Name of anyone who works at the Law Firm of Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton (SMR&H) and or Randy Saaf and the entire workforce of Media Defender.
Synonyms: ass-adit, ass-burrow, asschannel, ass crawl space, ass crawlway, ass crosscut, ass drift, asshole, ass-mine, ass passage, ass-pit, ass-shaft, ass-subway, ass-tube, ass-underpass
We have seen a ton of people on the net talking about how much they love the word, here’s a few:
Hawkbox: Asstunnel is officially my word of the day.
Penforhire: Those responses are awesome! Yep, learned new word for me to start using around the office.
Flawed: Oh I love that word. Excellent! And apt.
Chris FOM: Asstunnel love ++. I don’t know if it was on purpose or not, but that’s a great word.
Beeblebrox: Asstunnel has just replaced prick-toucher in my vocabulary as Best Insult
Kyle: AssTunnel is Sweeping the Nation as the new buzzword. Way to go guys! They can never take your asstunnel from you … ever! Freaking Brilliant!
Here’s what we should do to get the word out:
* Create a wikipedia entry for the word
* File a request with dictionary associations to have the word included in all dictionaries
* Place a full page advert in The New York Times
* Create a chain-email and send it to everybody in your inbox and tell them that if they don’t forward the email, they will die
* Declare our own country: United States of Asstunnels (not bashing the US)
* Lure the mainstream media to a press conference under false pretenses, lets just say we caught bin laden
* Call the MPAA/RIAA offices and tell them about the word
* Declare September 18 international day of AssTunnels
By the way in case you haven’t heard it’s arrrr talk like a pirate day, enjoy!
AAarrrrrrr aarrrstuNNuuuls!!!! http://www.meganova.org/sitenews/article/20.html
from site: http://www.meganova.org/sitenews/article/20.html
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First off, this article is so obscure, you’d have to be aware of who MediaDefender are in the first place, second, the morons who wrote this aren’t even aware of Urban Dictionary. I guess they spend too much time trying to fiddle with their Linux or macintosh boxes when they’re not pirating software or music on BitTorrent or Digging retarded stories. Here’s a photo the founder of Digg.

Regarding the article about Asstunnels, the company Media Defender is an anti-piracy firm hired by the recording and software industry to try to stop unauthorized sharing of copyrighted music and software files. While I’m not a personal fan of file-sharing and do believe that it is stealing when you download something that should be paid for. I’m biased on this opinion because I have worked as a software deveoper when I wasn’t working as a musician. I do believe that file-sharing does lead to sales in both music and software because there is a small percentage of people who go out and purchase the real software or music CD’s based on things they’ve downloaded. I am against the actions MediaDefender has adopted such as purposely corrupting and distributing corrupted files on file-sharing networks. I am in no way a fan of MediaDefender or the RIAA but these Digger’s seem to revel in the fact that they thumb their noses at the authorities regarding a real issue that isn’t easily resolved.
Regardless, the article I pointed out here is not my idea of something worthy to be shared with all visitors to Digg’s site if they are pretending to have a modicum of quality to their articles and if they are going to unreasonably ban people and them spam them after they’ve been banned.
Digg is the real Asstunnel here.