Top ten reasons people hate Digg.com
Thursday, April 2nd, 2009
by Mark Carras
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So I was on Tech Crunch yesterday and there was a story about Digg finally doing something about their horrid search. The Digg fanboys were out in force of course. Their only defense? “People only hate Digg because it’s popular!” So I felt it was obviously necessary to make it clear that it being popular has zero to do with most people’s hatred of it. So here is my…
Top Ten Reasons why Digg both sucks and blows!
10. Digg fanboys are so stupid that if you want any chance to get through to them you have to use some lame top ten list. A real article is too much for them to handle!
9. Kevin Rose has zero integrity. There are many successful people that still get respect. Why? Because they don’t go from the totally cool down to earth “Dark Tipper” to total arrogant douchbag. It’s when one let’s said success go to their head that people get pissy. It’s when they try to coast on a little bit of luck and treat their users like crap that people start to drink the Hatorade.
8. Speaking of which…The site seems to work very hard at catering to the juvenile crowd instead of the information addict.
7. The features they do come out with are either well after the competition or are more like flashy toys than something that helps the serious information addict.
6. The ads on Digg are getting about as “low rent” as it gets. It makes the site look like a phishing site.
5. Digg Townhall is full of more rhetoric and double speak than the RNC and DNC combined!
4. Getting any answers out of Digg for anything is like pulling teeth. Try asking a Mixx staff person and the answer will be faster and more informative.
3. Taking forever to do any development on the site
2. Putting sites on the Auto-Bury but still not admitting it exists
1. Banning people for using the official API
Yes, I know that Digg is the most popular social news site. However, some of us remember search engines like WebCrawler, infoseek, and Lycos. The first may be king for awhile, but in longtail that is time it is almost never for long. Especially when the current king acts like a a drunken frat boy instead of a serious businessman or journalist. Even if Kevin Rose pulls his head out of his ass and starts taking this seriously, there are some very serious reasons for the hate. So stop saying that it is only because of the success. Nothing could be further from the truth!