By: Brett

A recent post on Digg was titled “RIP Fifth Amendment Of U.S. Constitution, 1791-2007“. Everyone on Digg, because of the title alone, started to “digg” the story only because it had to deal with Bush, Impeachment and Loss of Rights. I’m not sure if any of them actually read the “Executive Order” or what. Going through the order that was released on the 17th of July, all I could see was an order that was directed at people that were imposing violence and in turn, under minded the “War on Terror.”

Digg has a growing problem with people that don’t bother researching or even having a clue about certain topics but going ahead and digging a story on the sole purpose that it’s popular. Then they comment on the story without having read any of it. Spewing false claims and acting like they have a sniff of what the story is about. I was a huge fan of Digg in the growing years, but now all you see on there are stories about iPhones, Bush haters, Linux and how Microsoft Sucks. In the beginning it was a great place to find resourceful articles, tutorials, behind the scenes interviews, and tech stuff that people were genuinely interested in. Because the site has become so popular I believe it’s getting Myspaced-down, or Dumbed-down if you will.

It’s not any fault of Digg. It is an open platform for anyone to submit any news story and it is up to the people to decide what stories are popular. But when “the popular” crowd switches from tech geeks to little teenie-boppers and propoganda activists you’re going to see a drastic change. In many ways it’s like the music I listen to. I will listen to a band forever until I see them on MTV or hear them repeated on the Radio. It’s not the bands fault they wanted to become popular and have everyone hear their music.. make millions of dollars and have their style of music completely change.

RIP Digg 2003-2007

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