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  msaleem

  Feb. 15, 2007, 2:27 a.m.

  Yahoo even gave them credit:

  http://yodel.yahoo.com/2007/02/14/it-takes-two-to-
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  deathray

  Feb. 15, 2007, 11:04 a.m.

  How can they be any worse than some Netscape users?
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  dknighton

  Feb. 15, 2007, 2:20 p.m.

  Response to Wil:

  First of all, you characterize all Digg users as having this sort of behavior. That is factually inaccurate. If you take the time to read through comments, you will see how inaccurate that statement is.

  Second, you proceed from the notion that Digg has any means to control the behavior of people once they are outside the confines of digg.com. What people do once the follow they links is no more in the hands of Kevin Rose than it is Santa Clause or the Easter Bunny. I would also like to see some statistical information to back your statement that the average Digg user is 13 years old.

  Digg users are typical, tech-minded Internet users. Within their ranks are the usual collection of trolls and idiots. However it is the popularity of Digg, and the voracity with which it's user base consumes tech news that accounts for the volume of objectionable discourse on sites that get linked. There's nothing wrong with Digg that isn't already wrong with society in general.
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  linktothepresent

  Feb. 16, 2007, 10:34 a.m.

  I am a member of Digg, and I must say that this is embarrasing. The idea that someone would vandalize a web page for a stupid reason utterly astonishes me.
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  jcrussell23

  Feb. 17, 2007, 9:58 p.m.

  After reading this article I realize that I'm not alone. Digg is ridiculous. I used to read Netscape everyday, until I realized Digg's stories were much more recent. I wish that I had never switched.

  I work in advertising, and the debate of user generated content fills hallways, email's and mailing lists, but this just goes beyond anything the words user generated content ever dreamed of becoming. This is a phenomenon, and in ways, I feel as if it's the rise of the .com boom all over again. I don't like the idea of a teenager controlling the news that I view, and subsuquently letting them represent my opinion (in a very disconnected way). I may be switching back to Netscape very shortly.

  I'm guessing that the Digg owners will be selling their property very soon, because I don't see a future for a website where it's users 'textually' harrass each other and where the top headline is about how Gaming effects marriage.
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  nottinghills

  March 2, 2007, 10:03 a.m.

  It might help digg with maturity factor, if they allowed people to send messages. There's friend feature there, but you can't get to know your friends. Just a random thought. But I can also understand why digg would not want to take that risk.

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