Comments on: Digg steals voting idea, lets all rally against Digg!

By: stephen hall

stephen hall — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 17:14:17 +0000

The little shovel is nothing but a glorified link farm. If you put good info on dig, they steal your link and pointit at their store, sporadically throughout the day, i have screenshot proof btw.That is illegal. It’s called “false advertising”. That’s ok though, the’re just giving me awesome info for my book. :)

By: Targeted Web Traffic

Targeted Web Traffic — Sun, 18 Feb 2007 08:39:32 +0000

That’s so funny, i was there when yahoo suggestions got flamed :)

By: lydgate

lydgate — Sun, 18 Feb 2007 02:48:39 +0000

Since when did the American revolution take place in 1788?

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Why The Digg Mafia Will Cost Kevin Rose Millions | Connected Internet — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 11:45:22 +0000

[...] the case – the hacking of the SuperGu website because it was accused of being a digg clone, and the defacement of a new Yahoo site just because it included some voting buttons, which of course were invented by Digg, just like [...]

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Why The Digg Mafia Will Cost Kevin Rose Millions! » Techtites — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 11:15:50 +0000

[...] the hacking of the SuperGu website because it was accused of being a digg clone, and secondly the defacement of a new Yahoo site just because it included some voting buttons, which in the minds of Digg users were invented by [...]

By: Duncan Riley

Duncan Riley — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 01:58:16 +0000

Koonat,
it doesn’t look anything like digg, it’s not an open fourm to suggest stories, Yahoo Suggestions is an inhouse voting tool for literally that: suggestions for Yahoo services. Totally different in it’s intent.

By: Koonat

Koonat — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 00:46:16 +0000

I don’t condone spamming and graffiti… but I think the majority of the complaint was that it LOOKED identical, and the blog post by yahoo did explicitly mention that it was digg-like. I think you missed the boat by focusing on the voting.

By: Everton

Everton — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 00:42:25 +0000

most of diggs users are under 16 so they probably think digg invented the internet….

By: Vince Williams

Vince Williams — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 16:31:02 +0000

I understand that Duncan is a Whig.

I hope he’s not offended if I count myself among those who consider the ‘Revolution’ more a coup d’état than a real revolution of the masses.

The ‘Revolution’ gave England its Bill of Rights and ended the Stuart’s overreaching monarchism.

However, I do find it strange that even the pope helped finance a Protestant gay Dutchman, William III of Orange. ;-)

By: quirkyalone

quirkyalone — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 08:37:21 +0000

>> Digg does not and will never hold an exclusive right nor license to voting online

I completely agree with this, but I also understand why some diggers were upset. Yahoo did copy the functionality, and it is a digg clone