Things Diggers Hate (That Always Get Dugg)
As someone who spends an unhealthy amount of the workday on Digg there are a few mind-boggling trends I’ve noticed. Certain stories seem to pretty much guarantee several comments that are nothing more than variations on “Really? That made the front page?” but they still seem to get consistently dugg up by a large number of people.
Slideshows
It is unlikely at this point that anyone could click through to an AskMen or Forbes.com list without knowing they’re about to endure another painful eye-raping in the name of page views. But still, these one sentence per page lists seem to perform reasonably well, despite a comments section riddled with complaints and an almost guaranteed 100+ diggs to the first person willing to copy the list over in a simple, easy to read format. For other offenders see EW and Maxim.
Huffington Post
For the past several months Digg’s 2008 U.S. Elections category has been redirecting people straight to the Huffington Post. Despite a fair amount of backlash in threads like this and this the Huffington Post has continued its total dominance of all things political.
Web Comics
There’s about a 50 percent chance that any given XKCD comic will have several comments whining about how it seemingly rockets to the front page no matter what, an inevitable link to http://www.isxkcdshittytoday.com/ and a few people simply stating “not funny.” However, there’s an almost equal chance that any other web comic that finds its way to the front page will end up getting called out for being “a cheap knockoff of XKCD.” So, if you want to make the front page, but also get people to tell you how much you suck, make a web comic.
Cracked Lists
Cracked.com is pretty much the Huffington Post of comedy, assuming the Huffington Post’s shameless stealing of NBC’s content doesn’t already qualify it for the title.
Although at least some of their lists can miraculously fit on one page, it seems like the bulk of them are just too funny to be contained on anything less than two. Either way, Cracked gets nearly a list a day on the front page even though a fair amount of them are met with intense, well thought out criticism like the following “That was dumb.”
Mr. BabyMan
This one probably ties in with the a larger category of duplicate submissions, since stealing submissions seems to be treated like the crime to end all crimes. But despite this, Mr. BabyMan continues to drive through a puddle and splash mud all over the weak submissions of us common-folk on his way straight to the home page. However, for the amount of rancor this guy has to put up with I’d say he’s allowed a free pass on stealing whatever the hell he wants. Now would you mind submitting something for me Mr. BabyMan?
Verbatim Comments
Watching a video and then putting a direct quote from the exact same video in the comments section of said video shouldn’t really be rewarded with diggs. And usually you can count on someone to point out that this is a pretty lame thing to do. However, almost without fail, this comment will be given a noteworthy amount of diggs, despite the fact that it contributed pretty much nothing more than some instant nostalgia. For examples see almost every Zero Punctuation review ever.
Rick Rolls
Actually…diggers love Rick Rolls more than they love Ron Paul giving the finger to the RIAA while downloading music onto a Mac.
Yeah, I really hate all those… no, I love cracked lists, I also digg them every time I see one… ops!
Comment by Lucas — October 22, 2008 @ 7:02 pm
Thank you! I’ve looked at Digg less and less over the past year because of this nonsense. I’m glad someone said something.
Comment by Brandon Mendelson — October 22, 2008 @ 7:16 pm
I am, of course, going to digg this.
Comment by KC — October 22, 2008 @ 7:33 pm
Another thing that I hate is onion articles. I read the headline thinking it’s news, go there and find out it’s an onion piece. GRRRRR
Comment by Chris — October 22, 2008 @ 7:36 pm
lemme tell u somethin… Cracked lists and Web Comics RULE!!! And all of those who have anythin against that, just four words: GTFO!
Comment by Impressa — October 22, 2008 @ 7:50 pm
Agreed: putting a direct quote from the exact same video in the comments section of said video shouldn’t really be rewarded with diggs. And usually you can count on someone to point out that this is a pretty lame thing to do
Comment by Slick — October 22, 2008 @ 7:59 pm
anybody else hate all those dailymail posts? i don’t know how they always end up on the front page, it might as well be posts from the weekly world news.
Comment by darkmajik — October 22, 2008 @ 8:01 pm
Ron Paul Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2b1D5w82yU
Comment by Abe — October 22, 2008 @ 8:02 pm
In response to Chris: I feel that way with HuffPo
Comment by Erin — October 22, 2008 @ 8:02 pm
Verbatim Comments
Watching a video and then putting a direct quote from the exact same video in the comments section of said video shouldn’t really be rewarded with diggs. And usually you can count on someone to point out that this is a pretty lame thing to do. However, almost without fail, this comment will be given a noteworthy amount of diggs, despite the fact that it contributed pretty much nothing more than some instant nostalgia. For examples see almost every Zero Punctuation review ever.
Comment by dave — October 22, 2008 @ 8:02 pm
You forgot to mention lists.
Comment by No — October 22, 2008 @ 8:19 pm
@slick – your comment is lame.
@dave – your comment is awesome.
/wait, wha?
Comment by ben — October 22, 2008 @ 8:19 pm
Oh Diggers hate everything, thats why they are Diggers!
http://www.internet-privacy.pl.tc
Comment by Jim Jones — October 22, 2008 @ 8:24 pm
I just joined this site so this stuff hasn’t really gotten under my skin yet so I’ll keep reading and get back to you.
Comment by Angie — October 22, 2008 @ 8:27 pm
The Onion FTW. I freaking hate the Onion’s links showing up on Digg. At first glance it looks like real news usually, then I realize the source. Never fails to irritate me. It’s not that I dislike the Onion, it’s the misleading nature of the headlines on Digg that tick me off.
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You Forgot to mention all those ridiculous TheOnion posts!
Comment by Logitech — October 22, 2008 @ 8:56 pm
don’t forget the stupid APODs
Comment by durrdurr — October 22, 2008 @ 9:13 pm
You Forgot about RON PAUL KING OF THE INTERNET NERDS. Any story with RON PAUL makes it to the digg frontpage.
Comment by XD — October 22, 2008 @ 9:15 pm
I was attacked for stating that there was a rickroll in the comments of a certain digg page. It wemt tp -28 in less than 30 minutes! sheesh!
Comment by Shelby Jones — October 22, 2008 @ 10:06 pm
Add to the list, articles about digg, irresistible for us diggers, hence me digging this one. Well done mate, you are on your way to the front page
Comment by Sani Moyo — October 22, 2008 @ 10:13 pm
cracked is the biggest failure on the internet
Comment by debaser — October 22, 2008 @ 10:38 pm
Cracked lists are the single worst thing since iraq. Who is responsible for this rat-ass garbage?
Comment by not a meathead — October 22, 2008 @ 10:53 pm
first of all- fuck digg. they banned me for some funnel girl prank.
FUCK THE ONION and the huffington BLOG.
and i would have dugg this entire article for “ron paul giving the finger to the riaa”
btw… ron paul is PC (ftw)
obamas the mac.
mccain is just a fuckin typewriter.
Comment by bannedFROMdigg — October 22, 2008 @ 11:13 pm
So true. I’d like to add that really poor quality videos of Kevin Rose showing off something that isn’t even really that cool can also be irritating (even though I like Kevin Rose).
Comment by James Kurtz III — October 22, 2008 @ 11:24 pm
Verbatim Comments
Watching a video and then putting a direct quote from the exact same video in the comments section of said video shouldn’t really be rewarded with diggs. And usually you can count on someone to point out that this is a pretty lame thing to do. However, almost without fail, this comment will be given a noteworthy amount of diggs, despite the fact that it contributed pretty much nothing more than some instant nostalgia. For examples see almost every Zero Punctuation review ever.
Comment by Playful — October 22, 2008 @ 11:28 pm
you forgot apple fanboys and their obsession with software updates and hardware releases that are overhyped, overpriced and underperform
Comment by vk — October 22, 2008 @ 11:33 pm
The Onion. Stop digging The Onion. It’s fictional news, people.
Comment by Roger — October 23, 2008 @ 12:00 am
That was dumb.
Comment by dave — October 23, 2008 @ 1:04 am
Here’s basically the whole rant condensed into a simple, easy to read format:
Slideshows
Huffington Post
Web Comics
Cracked Lists
Mr. BabyMan
Verbatim Comments
Rick Rolls
Comment by To Mega Therion — October 23, 2008 @ 1:32 am
darkmajik – I’m scratching my head too about the daily mail links – whotf reads that rag anyway?
Comment by hopefuel — October 23, 2008 @ 1:53 am
@bannedFROMdigg — Ron Paul is a PC? I’ll give you Obama being the Mac, but if he is, Ron Paul has GOT to be Linux.
Comment by craig — October 23, 2008 @ 1:56 am
What they said
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“Actually…diggers love Rick Rolls more than they love Ron Paul giving the finger to the RIAA while downloading music onto a Mac.”
What they should have said:
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Actually…diggers love Rick Rolls more than they love Ron Paul giving the finger to the RIAA screaming “09-f9-11-02-9d-74-e3-5b-d8-41-56-c5-63-56-88-c0″ while downloading music onto an Ubuntu machine.
Comment by Brian C — October 23, 2008 @ 2:28 am
try delicious for a change:)
Comment by pumpkin head — October 23, 2008 @ 2:36 am
Digg Athiests beating a dead horse.
We get it. You don’t like Religion.
Comment by Chris — October 23, 2008 @ 3:01 am
Every single update about the iPhone.
Comment by Krazd — October 23, 2008 @ 5:31 am
This list really should have been published in the form of a multi-page slideshow for maximum hilarity.
Can I just add that Windows Vista sucks?
Thanks.
Comment by Chris — October 23, 2008 @ 6:16 am
I don’t hate huffpo. All the right wing nutjobs hate it.
Comment by Stuart Hannig — October 23, 2008 @ 7:02 am
It is also painfully Democrat.
Every Palin or McCain article is derogotory.
Comment by John S — October 23, 2008 @ 9:42 am
Ah yes, and lets not forget all the charming, intelligent folks who read an article and the immediately start raving about something that just barely has anything to do with the main topic. Barely? How about two words taken out of context… Like OMG. haha.
Comment by Bills Cat — October 23, 2008 @ 10:54 am
the onion owns. how far through the article do you have to get before you realize it’s from an onion article. The number one thing Diggers hate should be other Diggers, because most of them are idiots
Comment by buttnut — October 23, 2008 @ 11:00 am
Everything politically related is my only complaint with digg. It is so lopsided left that the diggers come off as crazy…which these Obama nuts are. I would like to see a % but I’d guess 50% of all politically-related stories are tagged as inaccurate.
Comment by ahern — October 23, 2008 @ 12:30 pm
This is dumb.
Comment by dave — October 23, 2008 @ 1:33 pm
Wow I’m glad this got dugg. I wasnt sure if I was the only one thinking about these type of digg stories.
Comment by Lebat — October 23, 2008 @ 2:00 pm
a) I like cracked… the humor amuses me and their lists are generally interesting.
b) FUCK THEONION BULLSHIT… it’s really damn annoying to see onion articles in the top ten… take that shit back to fark… and for whoever asked how far we make it into the article before realizing it’s the onion… usually don’t make it past the headline… at which point I usually feel I just lost precious seconds of my like that will never be returned and the onion owes me for that… I’m making an invoice right now!
Comment by cymrich — October 23, 2008 @ 3:14 pm
oh… and no digg for listing cracked but not theonion
Comment by cymrich — October 23, 2008 @ 3:15 pm
Dude…
You have waaaay too much free time (even more than ME)!
Comment by Scott — October 24, 2008 @ 9:01 am
re: verbatim comments. a reason many people digg the verbatim from the videos is because they have a variety of reasons for NOT running video on their machine. so they get the jist or punchline without having to run it. i’ve done it. good list though.
Comment by shortypeople — October 24, 2008 @ 11:53 pm
lol i agree way to many huffington and cracked articles. if i wanted to read those sites i’d rss subscribe.
Comment by Bored — November 4, 2008 @ 12:13 pm