Archive for digg
April 2, 2007 at 2:10 am · Filed under allsux, digg
So how the hell did you get here from Digg.com?
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WANT TOÂ UNDERMINE DIGG.COM? THEN SUBMIT THIS:
HEADLINE:Â Digg.com No Longer Allows Links to This URL
BODY TEXT: So how the hell did you get here from Digg.com?
URL: http://allsux.com./2007/04/02/happy-tree-people
The period after ‘.com’ will allow it to slip through their system!
If you find someone else has submitted this story? No worries, find another sub-page on this site and add a ‘.’ after the ‘.com’ portion of the URL and viola! It will slip right through their system before you know it ;)
April 1, 2007 at 5:47 pm · Filed under allsux, digg, google
Breaking news:Â my ‘letter from Digg’ has been copied and put onto not one but two other servers (just that I know of) without permission and are both in the process of being Dugg! Irony? Plagiarism? Whatever. I <3 the interweb.
In other news, Digg finally blocked my IP address – no more commenting for me under pseudonyms: I’ve been ousted from the system for good. Since this whole thing started I’ve been looking into Digg’s past and (excuse the pun) but: I’ve dug up a lot of sh*t on that site.
Probably a lot of you know that you can buy Diggs to drive up your story’s popularity. Some new stats on Wikipedia suggest further corruption. And, of course, Slashdot has already long since written about cases similar to my own. You can check out this blog for an in-depth discussion of some of the many loopholes in the Digg system. Finally, Problogger has some links to various discussions related to Digg issues. And my most recent find: a site dedicated to listing sites of people who were banned from Digg.
Please feel free to link to this article and/or share your comments and personal experiences related to how much Digg sux :)
April 1, 2007 at 1:14 am · Filed under allsux, digg, google
In the definitively hottest twist yet in the story of my site’s stolen content, check out an amazingly inflammatory letter from a Digg administrator that reads like he is coming down off a 3-day crack binge. This letter of response to my inquiries concerning plagiarized content on Digg.com was nothing short of astonishing, using phrases like “we’re sure as shit not going to apologize” and “go fuck yourself” shortly after the administrator admits that Digg.com is at fault.  For the full story see the three preceding posts. I can only imagine this guy meant to save this to his “draft” bin and sent this by accident! It’s almost hard to believe this all started with a simple humorous post about a bizarre new Google Maps function. Digg definitely sucks a lot more than Google sucks. Please take the time to read the disclaimer regarding the information presented on this site! Oh, and happy Apr1l F00l’s day – this post is completely bogus, though all other posts related to Digg on my site are fully factual (basically I was frustrated at not receiving a response/explanation for being first banned and then having my IP address blocked from Digg.com – so I made up the response I figured best match what they thought when they read my letter). If you don’t believe my other posts and think ‘he can’t have been banned for this’ or ‘they wouldn’t just ignore him’ then read some of the other stories from reputable sources like Wikipedia, Wired, Problogger and Slashdot posted above.
March 30, 2007 at 6:53 pm · Filed under allsux, digg, google
Whoowee! The story gets even better. You might expect that if they received a report of a violation of their own TOS, Digg.com administrators might ban the violator. Well, in this case, they banned the victim of the violation. On the other hand, it appears that this isn’t the first time.
After I made a number of comments on Digg about my stolen site content, and even submitted a letter of complaint to Digg reminding them of their own stance against plagiarism, Digg.com administrators saw fit to suspend my Digg account for ‘misuse.’ So, not only have they *not* punished the plagiarist, they’ve now gone so far as to censure the victim of that plagiarism for speaking out about it. In a strange twist, the administrators of the site where the content in question was displayed actually allowed me to post a comment about my concerns. The full story is below in the two following posts.
March 29, 2007 at 2:31 pm · Filed under allsux, digg, google
Wow, I don’t know whether to be flattered or frustrated – probably should be some combination of the two. After I made my last post I put it up on Digg.com to see if anyone would find it entertaining and comment on it. But, sure enough, someone posted a version of my previous blog post on their blog. To add insult to injury, they didn’t even pick a different destination for their Google Maps directions search. And worst of all, they already have almost a thousand Diggs and the number seems to grow by a few HUNDRED Diggs every time I check the site. So here is your call to action: UNdigg that story and Digg mine instead.
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