Social Networking site Digg.com puts quite some efforts up to show its users that they are just submitting a duplicate news story.
While the duplicate search often comes up with some unrelated stuff it almost always finds duplicates. And when we see that somebody before us has already spread the news we just digg that story and cancel our submission.
Not so for many other Digg users as it seems…
We just had a look around in their Apple sections and the image below shows the results.
Within the last hours the news came up that the Apple TV will be delayed and it seems a lot of those believe providing duplicates might get them “famous for 15 minutes”
18 times the same story submitted about the delay of the Apple TV. And quite some of them even pointing to the same URL. There might be some more work waiting for the developers at Digg…
BTW there are more stories on the Apple TV going strong today at Digg but these are not related to the delay…
Click on the image for the full size image.
Related Posts:
- Update: Gaming Digg or is anybody actually looking at the posts?
- Gaming Digg or is anybody actually looking at the posts?
- Video: Gerald Ford tells the story behind his famous “national nightmare” remark
- More that 350.000 web sites (DreamHost) back online after almost 8 hours outage
In our previous post Gaming Digg or is anybody actually looking at the posts? we have shown evidence how Digg is currently spammed and asked users to read articles before voting for them. (our article was removed in minutes while being heavily digged by users) Since then a few things have happened: 1. Digg support [...]
After quite some discussions the last days on Digg power users dominating the front page stories at Digg we today stumbled over something rather strange. How can people rate a story when they can’t even access it? And how does a story that nobody can access make it to the front page with high numbers? [...]
In this video from an never-before-seen 1984 CBS interview former President Gerald Ford tells the story behind his famous “national nightmare” remark. He had requested that this would not be broadcasted before his death…
Continue reading…
Due to broken power cable the whole Dreamhost network was not reachable for more than 10 hours today. It just came back online. Not all the servers went down, but as DreamHost’s core routers and upstream providers are in that data center, there was no network to over 350,000 web sites during that time…
Continue reading…
Comments Off