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Wednesday, August 25, 2010
The Digg Patriots (the La-Li-Lu-Le-Lo)
This month, someone discovered a group of conservative Internet users that organized to bury stories that supported the left or attacked the right side of political field on the popular site Digg. It has been reported that they also went after Digg users that were considered liberal.
From the site above, ((A group of nearly one hundred conservatives have banded together on a Yahoo Group called Digg Patriots (DP), and a companion site at coRanks to issue bury orders and discuss strategies to censor Digg and other social media websites. DP was founded on 21 May 2009. Since then, over 40,000 posts have been logged at a steady rate of around 3000-4000 per month. The “Patriots” Network on coRank is a tool to submit Diggs to a group list as opposed to sending an e-mail every time. It also has some tools that make submitting to the list as easy as clicking on a bookmark. The DP membership includes the following Digg users (among others):))
What is funny is that Digg has done away with the “bury” feature that these Digg Patriots exploited for about a year. Now, Digg-up only has the Digg button. I personally would like to see Google do something like this, because I think Google gives too much power to people to mistreat the certain features.
Maybe we need Snake to get rid of these “Patriots”.
