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1. John Doe Digg users almost never make it to the front page
2. Digg is English only
3. Digg exploits user generated content without giving back anything
4. Digg censors
5. Digg front page stories will crash your server or the server your favorite story is on
6. Digg front page news are US main stream only
7. Digg will ban you for doing SEO
8. Digg can make Google ban your adsense account
9. Digg can get you banned downranked in organic Google results
10. Digg owner Kevin Rose disrespects his most ardent supporters
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You Suck
Why? Is it because your name is Kevin Rose? At least try to express yourself properly. Otherwise I have to assume that you are just a spam bot.
It would be nice if you had references. Digg has power over Google? I’m sure if they did Microsoft would buy them.
Well, there are reports where people were banned from Adsense after the “digg effect” and thus the poor clickthrough vs page impression rates that were identified by Google as click fraud.
For the organic results it means that you are flooded with links in a very short period of time so Google might downgrade you in the serach results for search engine spam, meaning getting too many links too quickly.
You forgot to mention the fact that a majority of the users are Apple/Linux fanboys so most of the stuff that makes it to the front page are biased, and are dugg/buried based on keywords relating to the fanboy’s camp.
So Digg better shape up.
Well, that was more or less included in “6. Digg front page news are US main stream only”. But yes, you are right, too much Linux and Apple indeed.
Digg is more like a private club now. Newbies have very little chance of ever - intentionally - getting anything out of it. Not much of a “real” social site anymore.
where is the digg button to digg this?
Adam: That’s also my impression.
Mark: The post was already dugg even without a button, it got 30 diggs, but in most cases I practice what I preach so I did not add Digg (and Reddit) buttons on purpose :->
so why only digg …
other sites like that can have the same effect as well … right ???
hehe …
It is improper to say that I bash others when you are bashing me. I will own Mixx in two weeks. Thank You and come again
Plus DIGG has some stupid kind of error messages which doesn’t explain what happened. Like when I am in office I am unable to login to DIGG as it says fatal exception has occurred and no other detail. But I can log in from home with out problem.
Mind you I log in using same laptop from home and office so there is no question of some browser or cookie problem.
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