Does Digg.com Have a Bias in Favor of Apple?

[dmetzcher]

Originally Posted by Thank The Cheese

that's interesting...my +digg didn't stick! I pressed "digg" and the yellow box just "exploded" into a mess. refreshing the page I found it is still at 15 diggs?! (see attached image). The same thing happens in Firefox and Safari!! wtf?!

I tried digging another story and it worked so it can't be a browser or server issue.

Does burying a story make it un-diggable?

I saw the exact same thing with a story I tried to digg yesterday. It was a very old story, so it was probably buried as well. Perhaps their little "bug" ensures that people can't vote a story up when others have killed it.

[nixgeek]

On a general note about digg, I used to like it a lot at first, but lately I've noticed that it tends to be worse than Slashdot at times. About the only good thing going for it is that some stories show up WAY before other sites like OSNews or Slashdot post them, but of course OSNews and Slashdot have people that filter out the bad posts while they usually end up getting lots of diggs on digg.

[Thank The Cheese]

I like digg, and will continue to visit, but it has become a different place in the last couple of months than it was in the beginning.

As you know, iy was originally for posting interesting tech-realted articles, but now there are a lot of links to images, or a download page for an update. Sometimes people will post an interesting article, but instead of posting directly to the story, they will post a link to their blog that posts to the story, creating an unneccessary extra step. Nothing wrong with posting your blog so long as the article on your blog IS THE STORY, and isn't just an extra step standing in the way of you and the story you're after.

I even saw a digg post that offers tips for how to use Digg to promote your website, which encourages this kind of behaviour.

Still, I don't hate the way Digg is going. I quite enjoy the stupid little stories, so long as there are also "real" articles in between. And the podcast is great.

[solidsnake]

how can it be biased if people choose to Digg it or not?

[dmetzcher]

Originally Posted by solidsnake

how can it be biased if people choose to Digg it or not?

While I generally agree with where you are going with this, my point was clear about the fact that the Web site courts the Mac user community. I understand that people can choose to digg something or not digg it, however, when you have categories that are specific to a company, but do not have categories that are specific to one of that company's competitors, you drive the news in one direction over another. This is why it seems to many digg users (just read through the comments on most of the articles that make the front page) that digg seems to be the Apple/Mac hangout. I have no real problem with this, in reality, but I think that Digg should be honest about it, or remove the specialized categories, which seem to have been created some time ago, based on the interests of a small group of people at Digg.