Yeah, I really hate all those… no, I love cracked lists, I also digg them every time I see one… ops!
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.
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49 Responses to “Things Diggers Hate (That Always Get Dugg)”
Lucas 
Brandon Mendelson — October 22, 2008 @ 7:16 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.
KC 
I am, of course, going to digg this.
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
lemme tell u somethin… Cracked lists and Web Comics RULE!!! And all of those who have anythin against that, just four words: GTFO!
Slick 
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
darkmajik 
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.
Abe 
Ron Paul Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2b1D5w82yU
Erin 
In response to Chris: I feel that way with HuffPo
dave 
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.
No 
You forgot to mention lists.
ben 
@slick – your comment is lame.
@dave – your comment is awesome.
/wait, wha?
Jim Jones 
Oh Diggers hate everything, thats why they are Diggers!
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.
arcadecontrols 
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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Logitech 
You Forgot to mention all those ridiculous TheOnion posts!
durrdurr 
don’t forget the stupid APODs
XD 
You Forgot about RON PAUL KING OF THE INTERNET NERDS. Any story with RON PAUL makes it to the digg frontpage.
Shelby Jones — October 22, 2008 @ 10:06 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!
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
debaser 
cracked is the biggest failure on the internet
not a meathead 
Cracked lists are the single worst thing since iraq. Who is responsible for this rat-ass garbage?
bannedFROMdigg 
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.
James Kurtz III — October 22, 2008 @ 11:24 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).
Playful 
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.
vk 
you forgot apple fanboys and their obsession with software updates and hardware releases that are overhyped, overpriced and underperform
Roger 
The Onion. Stop digging The Onion. It’s fictional news, people.
dave 
That was dumb.
To Mega Therion 
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
hopefuel 
darkmajik – I’m scratching my head too about the daily mail links – whotf reads that rag anyway?
craig 
@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.
Brian C 
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.
pumpkin head 
try delicious for a change:)
Chris 
Digg Athiests beating a dead horse.
We get it. You don’t like Religion.
Chris 
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.
Stuart Hannig 
I don’t hate huffpo. All the right wing nutjobs hate it.
John S 
It is also painfully Democrat.
Every Palin or McCain article is derogotory.
Bills Cat 
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.
buttnut 
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
ahern 
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.
dave
This is dumb.
Wow I’m glad this got dugg. I wasnt sure if I was the only one thinking about these type of digg stories.
cymrich 
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!
cymrich
oh… and no digg for listing cracked but not theonion
shortypeople 
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.
