Many sites have been know to down because the web server could not handle the traffic coming from this site.
One of the most visited sites in the world (Top 100)
From Wikipedia:
Digg is a community-based popularity website with an emphasis on technology and science articles, recently expanding to a broader range of categories such as politics and entertainment. It combines social bookmarking, blogging, and syndication with a form of non-hierarchical, democratic editorial control.
News stories and websites are submitted by users, and then promoted to the front page through a user-based ranking system. This differs from the hierarchical editorial system that many other news sites employ.
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- sonu27
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- added November 23, 2007
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I was a long time digg user but I left because when children submit your news - it doesn't work. Digg is a horrible pit of racism and sexism. I like it much better here at Current; where everyone isn't 14 years old.
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- Jonndailey
- 1 year ago
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LOL.
Well, I you look for the storys with the highest amounts of diggs.
It's better that way. I disagree that it is just 14 year olds.
Digg.com users are very engaged and represent a strong combination of technical influencers and early adopters.
These are the key demographic* indicators:o 66 percent male
o 42 percent 35 to 49 years old,
o 26 percent 21 to 34 years old
o 44 percent with annual income $75K and above
o 68 percent college and above education
o 14 percent professionals
o 10 percent executive or managerial occupation
* Source: Alexa.com, June 2007From: http://advertising.microsoft.com/advertise/digg?tab=profile
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So there is actually more older people.
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Do you ever read the comments at Digg? Do you find them insightful? Comments like "Fail" and "pwned" are not what people of executive or managerial stature would say. I was a digg user before people were available to comment.
If you really think digg is great for news I encourage you to check this out:
http://digg.com/world_news/Goat_PIC
Amazing "news." I'm enlightened.
Point proven?
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- Jonndailey
- 1 year ago
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Well, that's why it only has a few diggs.
And how old 111 days.
Come on man, Digg has to most users end of story and is better.
Bye
