This smarmy looking tool (pictured above) is Kevin Rose the guy who created digg. I’m going to have a whine today about the website he “created” (paid web developers to make based on copied ideas). But firstly why do I have a problem with Kevin? Well you can read about it here.
So onto why digg bugs me. I generally look at digg during my lunch breaks basicaly because I like to read interesting news articles while nom’ing away and I do enjoy it too some extent. But lately digg has been annoying me lately because of the following. Reasons gained from overuse but which has also given me a deeper insight into the inner workings of the beast.
- Agenda Groups: It seems like a lot of the articles have certain agenda’s behind them such as PS3 fan boys constantly digging up articles about xbox hardware failures.
- One billion friends required to make it too the front page: It seems a small percentage of the site members have control over what makes the front page and what doesn’t. If you’re a new member that posts a genuinely good article etc, don’t expect it to ever make the front page or even get past 10 diggs.
- Same sites linked over and over: Site’s such as cracked.com, college humour etc are dugg up over and over with most of the submission being pretty similar to each other.
- Numerical Lists: Top 10 ways to do this, 15 inspiring images of whatever. I’m sick to death of these lists taking up space on the front page. They’re from the same old sites such as cracked.com and poorly written lists on unimportant subjects e.g. The 15 most over hyped horror movies. They’re also on separate pages, so you have to look at multiple pages to help the owners of the site generate some ad-sense money.
- Anonymous Buries: You can bury any article on digg anonymously and you don’t have to provide any details of why you are burying it. This just leaves things too open to abuse in my books.
- Old Internet Meme’s: You might of seen this image years ago and had a laugh at it, but guess what? It’s back on the digg home page this month and maybe next month. This meme will never die because at least 30 people on digg haven’t seen it and digg it up rapidly.
/end rant mode
Time to go and enjoy my weekend now that I’ve gotten the bile out of my system! 
