Comments on: Digg Surrenders to Community

By: kavak yelleri

kavak yelleri — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 10:36:47 +0000

I think this is really the first sign of life in a community online. The community acted together in a way larger and in the face of its creators. Go diggers.

By: The Smoking Foot » Blog Archive » Common Pitfalls of Building Social Web Applications and How to Avoid Them

Wed, 08 Aug 2007 08:14:42 +0000

[...] the recent Digg dustup in which the Digg community pushed back on the site after they tried to remove a certain [...]

By: software engineering

software engineering — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 17:31:40 +0000

Really nice! The comments and the community article is good.

By: shine India

shine India — Thu, 17 May 2007 17:20:22 +0000

Itz Nice to see this discussion.. i agree 100%

By: stalker

stalker — Thu, 17 May 2007 08:01:46 +0000

yeah it was cool – keep digging guys

By: walker

walker — Sun, 13 May 2007 18:54:54 +0000

agree!!!! 100%

By: links for 2007-05-04 (Leapfroglog)

links for 2007-05-04 (Leapfroglog) — Fri, 04 May 2007 06:17:17 +0000

[...] Bokardo Â» Digg Surrenders to Community Porter’s at his best when he just concisely describes stuff that’s happening in the social web field. I agree with him, this latest example of the Digg community’s out of control-ness is insane. (tags: Digg control DRM communities socialsoftware) [...]

By: Jermayn Parker

Jermayn Parker — Thu, 03 May 2007 05:33:30 +0000

Just goes to show the power of the consumer and market audience. If Diggit did not do what they did, people would discredit them and maybe even move on and then Diggit would loose out. This way they keep everyone happy

By: Arun

Arun — Thu, 03 May 2007 03:35:20 +0000

“You know that your social site is working when your users do things you didnâ€™t imagine and hadnâ€™t designed for, right?”

Exactly. And Kevin Rose understood this did the right thing. Took the site down rather than deleting the whole HD-DVD content.

I am not sure if law officials insist Digg to remove all the content. Who cares. The key will be there all over the internet by now. Why the hell they don’t invest more money on technology than attorneys?

By: thunderbird

thunderbird — Thu, 03 May 2007 00:07:39 +0000

Makes me wonder if others are now going to post cracks and serial keys on Digg? I’m sure some people from Netscape might do it to take down Digg :p

By: Seyora

Seyora — Wed, 02 May 2007 23:15:47 +0000

Thank you for bringing this up.

It’s ridiculous how Digg bowed down to the mob rule. Past generations fought for their right to have their opinions voiced without gov’t oppression. This generation seems to be fighting for the right to flood an illegal hexadecimal string (bad wording on my part, but you get what I mean).

Social web isn’t much useful when mob rule comes along.

By: Andrew Green

Andrew Green — Wed, 02 May 2007 22:18:11 +0000

You know that your social site is working when your users do things you didn’t imagine and hadn’t designed for, right?

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 02 May 2007 20:43:20 +0000

Community aspects completely aside, the post seems to be a clear violation of the DMCA (No person shall manufacture, import, offer to the public, provide, or otherwise traffic in any technology, product, service, device, component, or part thereof, that–) (PS: IANAL)

As bad as it is the DMCA is the current law until we change it.

What if the posting was some other illegal act – something not as geekily hip as cracking DVDs? Would the outcry be as loud?

By: Steven

Steven — Wed, 02 May 2007 20:28:36 +0000

Nice to see this discussion. I agree with pauric…this community-is-Digg.

By: Bud Caddell

Bud Caddell — Wed, 02 May 2007 18:15:46 +0000

I think this is really the first sign of life in a community online. The community acted together in a way larger and in the face of its creators. Go diggers.