Digg Has Super Users Or Hates Ron Paul

Techcrunch ^ | 1/17/08 | Techcruncy

[cowtowney]

There have been rumors and suggestions that certain users at Digg have “special powers” in the past, so what I saw could simply be one of those users who can alone bury stories submitted to Digg, at any stage of the voting process. Or (with tin foil hat on) Digg might have decided to ban Ron Paul. There’s zero way of knowing, and Digg never talks about its internal workings so we have no way of finding out which one it is, or even if it’s a combination of both. I wonder how long it will take for someone on Digg to bury this post?

[cowtowney]

Many sites censor comments. FR does. What's important is that this practice is clearly stated as FR does.

This article describes a possible Youtube type censoring at Digg.

[cowtowney]

Techcruncy = Techcrunch, or Michael Arrington

[pnh102]

Digg is getting to the point where just about every other submitted story is about Ron Paul. I can’t blame them for wanting to cut down on the fluff.

[tje]

Same thing was happening on reddit. It seems to have calmed down, but there were people getting tired of all the RP articles.. At times I’d swear it was every other one.

[Scutter]

Digg is a great example of why the founding fathers were right to create a constitutional republic rather than a pure democracy. The “tyranny of the masses” is in full force over there; if you aren't posting the standard, bed-wetting liberal dogma of the 20-somethings that frequent Digg, your post will get dugg down into obscurity within minutes.

[Mike Acker]

i don’t like using a site that doesn’t moderate comments. such boards get real nasty

boards of course cater to their clientele and you would expect that

so if you like to look at things from different aspects just use a variety of different boards

( you could even watch MSNBC ) ( tee hee )

[wideawake]

Ron Paul supporters like to spam sites with thousands of phony postings.

I'll bet Digg has tired of the cyberharassment.

[AuntB]

Hey!! Ron Paul just won a straw poll! Maybe someone can finally see his support is NOT coming from conservatives.

A DEMOCRATIC PARTY STRAW POLL

It may be snowing here in Washington, D.C., but the sun is apparently shinning on Congressman Ron Paul, who edged out Senator John McCain in the 2008 Democratic Party Republican Straw Poll. Meanwhile, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani ended up in a familiar place: sixth.

Top 3 results: Candidate % Rep. Ron Paul 25.72%

Sen. John McCain 24.73%

Gov. Mike Huckabee 17.17%

http://www.democrats.org/a/2008/01/paul_tops_mccai_2.php

[pissant]

He is supported by the ‘conservatives’ at Lewrockwell.com, if that’s any consolation. LOL

[dan1123]

People still go to Digg?

[JerseyHighlander]

09-f9-11-02-9d-74-e3-5b ...

Digg fails whenever they try this.

[cowtowney]

“09-f9-11-02-9d-74-e3-5b ...Digg fails whenever they try this.”

What does this mean?