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Digg is Deadd

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There is no intellectual conversation on Digg. The commenting design is too one dimensional and the users don't contribute. Yes, even on reddit there are 'stupid' comments but within specific subreddit there is definitely some good conversation.

If I had read this a year ago (which I think I did, but not going to waste time looking it up) it might have been interesting, but now this is really a non-story since Digg has been pretty much stagnant for a while now.

Mentally translate all the comments about women on Digg into comments about black or hispanic people, and then imagine how you would feel about participating. I don't go to Digg because the "conversation" there makes my skin crawl. I am not the only woman I know who feels that way. Hopefully the rest of the world has begun to notice, too, but maybe that's wishful thinking.

Funny how they don't mention Reddit. I got tired of Reddit during the Ron Paul days and other than some nutty basement libertarian flare-ups, it's been quite good lately. I've never seen a community like that actually recover.

I went to my profile yesterday and the list of friends is completely broken. It's like there's no actual programmers left there.

terrible title

You expected something better from a site called "websitemagazine"?

It's cleaver. The last line about how Digg has dugg their own grave also made me chuckle a bit.

The problem with Digg is that the community is terrible and that it's a miracle whenever something remotely intellectual makes it to the front page.

I found HN through StackOverflow about a year ago and haven't looked back.

The fact is, people -- real people -- are beginning to tire.

Maybe. But that doesn't automatically mean that everyone is going to give up on all social sites, or that people will stop going to Digg just because it wants your actions. It means we, the tired, will focus on sites that are useful and comfortable.

I used to love Digg, and could love it again. It's the inane community that made me tire of it, not the clicking.

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