Digg(tm) has to be one of my most visited sites for the past 9 months and I really do love to hate it now. Dugg(tm) news, as it becomes increasingly more popular, its becoming rife with over elaborating article news in a sorry attempt to get people to view their own site.
I am sick to death of people saying "The Best Flash Game EVAAAAAA!! w000t!" or "Unbelievable Work..ZOMG!?!" only to lead to some decade old piece that some teenage asshole has just found for the first time.
I guess social networked news brings its own take on internal "editorialism" but I'm pleading with the World here, for people to have a bit of self control the next time they feel the need to use a superlative to describe something they Digg... ask yourself these questions:
1) Is it really the best/amazing/unbelievable/life changing? If not.. STFU else goto 2;
2) Will it still be amazing in a few days/weeks/months? If not.. STFU else goto 3;
3) Has the article been online for more than a year? If it has, most of the people on Digg will have already seen is so STFU else goto 4;
4) STFU
You see, the moral of this rant is that the best articles on Digg are those that don't self gratify and allow the reader to decide whether they really are amazing. Most of the time you'll find its just better than average...
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i think you should STFU.
i'm going to post this on digg as "the most insightful article ever! a must read!" ;)
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