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. 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, |
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…
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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 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. Here’s what we should do to get the word out:
* Create a wikipedia entry for the word By the way in case you haven’t heard it’s arrrr talk like a pirate day, enjoy! |
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.
I been lucky that I haven’t been banned from Digg. I haven’t used it in a few weeks though so I think ill wait till things blow over. A quick check of the highest dugg articles shows that there is definite abuse going on.
They seem to be going after DigitalPoint members because they’re the obvious targets. They’re not going after the most blatant offenders as you can see in my most recent post from today.
Perhaps people on digitalpoint are snitching on other webmaster competitors? I never will trade Digg as I think its a waste of time. Id rather work on SEO than social networking crap which is temporary and requires constant work unlike SEO, IMO.