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Posted by: titlesaysitall 2 years, 6 months ago"Just a few hours ago I was writing that there was a reason why Digg had censored an article pointing out the HD-DVD Processing Key. While Digg is right to do so, and Jay Adelson has explained the reasons on the Digg blog, this hasn't stopped the Digg community from a full-fledged revolt."
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Wil
May 1, 2007, 10:26 p.m.Ah, the Digg Mob turns on Digg. How's it feel, guys?
Welcome to the rest of the Internet.
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nakedtruth
May 2, 2007, 11:20 a.m.It's funny that every time there's an "anti Digg" story it's magically on the front page of Netscape. I'll take "mob rule" over "underhanded dictatorship" any day of the week.
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WindyRoad
May 2, 2007, 7:29 p.m.that's exactly what I've done.
The reason for moving has very little to actually do with that hex key, it was due to the way that the Digg moderators operate. Firstly, they aren't supposed to be any moderators and secondly rather than a problem article being listed as being taken down, it simply disappears completely. I don't care if they delete a story for legal reasons, but I do want to know it was deleted.
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nottinghills
May 1, 2007, 11:21 p.m.I see a newly popular story at digg that shows 1725 diggs, but when I look at who dugg this, I see 676 diggs. Something else is going on...
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vagredajr
May 2, 2007, 1:23 a.m.There's a reason that old book was called "Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds"... I guess Kevin and Jay never read it tho...
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loudawg
May 2, 2007, 2:19 a.m.i checked out digg earlier and thought something was a miss. Every story was a reference to that HD DVD crack code. The tenor was real angry too. this will be neat to follow for the next couple of days.
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schestowitz
May 2, 2007, 3:13 a.m.The site doesn't function properly at the moment. I sort of feel bad for them. If you read their blog, you'll see that they do the right thing.
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Fedquip
May 2, 2007, 4:35 a.m.Crazy indeed.. Really bizarre actually watching an internet revolution. Kevin rose did make a statement, I can't help but to feel sorry for the guy, their site did grow real big real fast. But I think he makes a great statement here.
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charbarred
May 2, 2007, 5:43 a.m.The problem with Digg is that they don't know how to deal with their user-base. You never get an email explaining why a certain story was removed. Every interaction I ever had with the Digg staff was always a really nasty one. At the end of the day we pay for their lunches, but they are treating us really badly...bottom line: I'm glad I switched over to Netscape.
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evelyna
May 2, 2007, 8:53 a.m.If this is about big screen televisions there are far too many already.
Electronic stores have 200 models and more. All of this so someone can sit on their couch potato behind for an hour to figure out the chanel of lousy content they want to watch.
This has become a new status symbol like having 50 gadgets for your cell phone or see box.
Where do people get the money for all of this junk?
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TweekerchickQC
May 2, 2007, 9:40 a.m.I feel sorry for them. I also feel sorry that he made a really bad buissness decision and stands to lose a hell of a lot for it.
At the end of the day, he needs to do whats best for the site, and sometimes that's being the bad parent and not letting the masses get whatever they want.
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eviln3d
May 2, 2007, 9:54 a.m.Does netscape delete too?
09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0
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nakedtruth
May 2, 2007, 11:33 a.m.After reading the Digg blog, my respect for the Digg founder just shot up 100 fold!
*****
But now, after seeing hundreds of stories and reading thousands of comments, you've made it clear. You'd rather see Digg go down fighting than bow down to a bigger company. We hear you, and effective immediately we won't delete stories or comments containing the code and will deal with whatever the consequences might be.
If we lose, then what the hell, at least we died trying.
******
The difference between Digg and Netscape is that Netscape is ALREADY in the clutches of a bigger company.
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katiecakes
May 2, 2007, 2:02 p.m.Im confused about what the code is exactly, something to do with highdef I get but I don't see what it does exactly. Can someone explain please?
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pongping
May 2, 2007, 2:13 p.m.Sell your products at a local price, Hollywood, and you control the market.
In China, a DVD costs about 7 RMB. In stores, they are 10 times that.
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Macas
May 2, 2007, 3:34 p.m.hmmmm Deja vu again like with 'Bush stuff' this days ...
So, story about our rival ,right ?
For me digg.com is plastic and none-friendly news site !
I have been there more then on Netscape.com and I can sure you that this is better place :)
They love only thing there : monopole :p
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katiecakes
May 2, 2007, 4:11 p.m.I don't think what digg did was really censorship. The owner of Digg, or founder, whatever, has a right to say "I won't allow that on my website". If the people were being prevented from posting their own website with those codes, I might consider that censorship. The users have the right to accept or reject Digg.com on that basis. If they don't like that site anymore they can come over here to netscape and post the codes. Its that simple.
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eviln3d
May 2, 2007, 5:32 p.m.There may be another simple answer... maybe Netscape is just a loving company that doesn't have enough storage capacity to keep all the comments and stories so every now and then they have to flush some stuff... Hmmm... the easiest way to offend the least amount of user is to flush some a few high users that have more storage attached to them than a lot of little users... maybe thats the reason it just done to save money.... no really... maybe thats the reason... I mean it.... oh hell your right, it just censorship.
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loquaciousrana
May 2, 2007, 8:06 p.m.I think a few of the users in your list probably sent up flags with their user names: trojanhorse, mindvirus, newstealth. They may not have been hackers, but their user names would have attracted the attention of a net admin.
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rockman069
May 2, 2007, 5:20 p.m.Unfortunately, king has a lot of truth. If you are a high performer, generating conversation, you will invariably step on someone's toes. It only takes a couple of complaints to freeze the person.
I remember vividly some of the controversial themes that were discussed last year. Some were quite heated, but several interesting points were brought out. What happened was that they started putting report buttons on the comments. After a while the mods said that not enough people were using the report button and therefore were not able to maintain a decent pulse on the gist of all the stories.
I think that things then went to the other extreme, culling and deleting willy nilly. I personally was turned off for a while, but thanks to the likes of DavidHalko, I decided to come back.
Now he is gone, like the rest.
What is this, a hatchet scene or a community?????
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B1BLancer
May 2, 2007, 9:09 p.m.This story was brought to you by our "Who Gives a Crap" department. Sunk.
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