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Yesterday, Yahoo launched their new Suggestion Boards which has a digg-like voting mechanism and looks quite close to Digg, but unlike Digg, it’s not for promoting stories, but for sharing comments over various Yahoo Service. Infact, Yahoo had even generously credited Digg in their blog post. Digg mafia didn’t quite like it, so nearly 2800 diggers dugg a post titled “Yahoo Shamelessly Rips Off Digg and Brags About it,†and started screaming, flaming on Yahoo through comments.
That’s not all; they even went upto spamming Yahoo Suggestion Board and their blog with their immature messages. Kevin Rose invented Digg, but he didn’t invent the voting system, he didn’t invent democracy. He just built a good community, that’s it. (Duncan Riley explains it better)
I’m not blaming the entire Digg community for this; some good diggers are even asking others to stop it. From this entire episode, I think Digg mafia is hurting Digg’s own reputation. It brings no good to Digg!
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wrote, on February 16th, 2007
F*ck Digg. Lately, more and more of the Digg fanboys piss me off. Digg is nothing more than a top site for the “Top 10 [Insert YouTube Video Category Here]. It’s way, way over rated.
wrote, on February 16th, 2007
ha ha, I know that’s the way digg works. Amit agarwal, I myself have noticed this a lot and I wrote an article just like you’ve done a while back.
http://www.reviewsaurus.com/20.....heir-eyes/
But the Digg Mafia (nice term used by you) will not understand things and will actually make digg a bad experience.
wrote, on February 16th, 2007
Digg is full of fanboys….
wrote, on February 16th, 2007
Yahoo suggestion boards is no social news sharing website, only suggestions and feedback for certain Yahoo channels and they also gave credit to digg,
Now Digg really needs to get a grip on the community.
wrote, on February 16th, 2007
I am sick of seeing all of these big companies run out of their own ideas. Companies like Google, Yahoo!, and Microsoft, to name a few, have gone out there and started buying out websites or taking their ideas and customizing them. I would say the only big stream company that isn’t doing this of now is Apple.
I used to hate Apple but I have to give them props. They stay true time and time again and create an edge others, cough Microsoft cough, would like to mirror.
If I was the inventor of Digg I would be upset too. Yahoo! should pay some sort of customary fee or ask for permissions. You know if you did that off of one of their sites you would end up in court!
wrote, on February 16th, 2007
Lovedeep: That’s what I said
wrote, on February 16th, 2007
lol thilak, i was shouting at digg mafia not you.
wrote, on February 16th, 2007
There is lynching and there is democracy.
Digg sometimes borders at the latter. But it comes as no surprise when you check the maturity levels of Digg members going through their comments.
But it is a shameful incident for the good Digg members. I wonder how they are tackling all this.