I completely agree with your assessment of Groupon. I never understood why a half-assed location-aware spam service was generating so much excitement. Google has their own replacement for it now anyway.
Regarding Digg, I was one of the early users, and in those early days it was a really good site. But then one day it turned political, and the libtards came and just trashed it. Literally every other article was political, and the threads were filled with libtard posts. I sent the Digg folks several suggestions regarding adding a filter to allow users that didn’t want to see that stuff to filter out political articles, but to no avail.
So screw Kevin Rose. I’m actually quite happy to see the whole thing crash and burn.
“...and the libtards came and just trashed it.”
And Digg staff favored the liberals. People’s personal blogs saying the worst unsubstantiated crud about conservatives were pole vaulted to the front page. The liberals buried any content (even from trusted sources) that had a conservative opinion or content.
It came a point that The Abnormal Freak Out Blog edged out legit news sources.
Conservative posters were repeatedly abused in comments with rare repercussions from Digg staff... but conservatives lived in fear of being banned by multi votes if they returned similar sentiments.
So ... the site deserved to die. They basically suicided.
These blogs were making a profit from hits.
Same here. I was excited when I found Digg, and for a few years found it very interesting. But, after getting shouted down for merely expressing differing opinions and seeing conservatives trashed on a regular basis, I just gave up on it.
In fact, I hadn’t even thought about it since last year. I took it out of my bookmarks and haven’t been back since.
Good riddance.
Isn't Reddit the same liberal hot mess?