Digg.com Digger’s Are Extremely Unsociable

Recently I’ve been hearing quite a bit about a site called Digg.com. It is a website where people can share posts and articles with one another, rate them and offer feedback. It’s a small part of this whole Web 2.0 phenomena. The buzz behind it is, if people don’t like your posts they will not pass off a “Digg” rating to you. The more people who “Dugg” your post will end up driving additional traffic back to your own personal blog.

As a new Blogger, I decided it was time to test this site out and honestly I got to say… this place sort of sucks!

Getting negative constructive feed back is one thing, but as I am reading the comments posted regarding the posts I made and others alike I am coming to the quick conclusion most “Diggers” are just asinine.

Last night I posted a quick blurb about Myspace being down. Who knew this was a sore subject to write about! As I posted previously I had heard on the news that Myspace had overtaken Google with the number of hits they receive daily. When I went to visit this site last night, it was down. I was thinking a server outage for a company worth 100’s of millions of dollars could not be good. Apparently, some “Diggers” felt differently. I can understand people not caring about your post, but who really needs to hear

“Get Cancer”
“God damint who the f**k cares.”
“And the fact that your wife has a MySpace account should disqualify the two of you from procreating.”
“ya u suck at the digg , give up”

Yes, it’s really just laughable and I admit there is something intoxicating about posting on Digg and waiting to see if your score goes up. Its sort like gambling, you never know what you’re going to get but with comments like these, who finds this kind of stuff fun?

Now I have only submitted for about a week but I noticed right away I got some real negative criticism on multiple posts from the same person. In addition I saw these same rude comments written by the same person on friend’s posts.

It has got me questioning the whole idea behind social networking and led me to ask, how many people are actually Digging at Digg?

Quadszilla posted on his blog SeoBlackHat a link to a great article posted on ForeverGeek.com titled “Digg Corrupted: Editor’s Playground, not User-Driven Website”. The author writes

I’ve read that Digg gets anywhere from 500,000 to 800,000 readers a day. 16 (or 19) identical diggs for two articles by the same author? 22 of the first 24 diggers being being the same for both articles? Somehow I don’t think that is a coincidence.

Hmmm, so I am not the only one who thinks this is strange…

I will concede one point. Perhaps posting my Bank of Wal-Mart post for a group of techies to read was just asking for trouble.

Maybe you want to digg this post!

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