Digg Gets Vulgar, But Only Once They Know You
It would appear Digg slipped in a slick little feature during one of the recent updates.
If a Digg submissions uses vulgarity in the title or description, it is changed automatically to show “*” and censor the word.
However, if you log into Digg, then you again see the vulgar term uncensored.
Digg Comments: Finally Fixed
About a year ago, Digg launched a new version of their comment system which a large number of users were not to happy about.
They introduced the ability to digg or bury individual comments, sorting options based on comment score, making friends comment a greenish hue, the ability to block users, threaded commenting, and a 3 minute window to make edits to your comment before they became permanent.
A few short months after this launch, around June 2007, they launched another changed.
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Digg’s April Fools… The Joke is on You!
There has been a mess of April Fools jokes going around the web but none had fooled me until I ran across Digg’s. I actually thought my browser was having a javascript issue when these weird symbols showed up where the number of Diggs used to be.
Digg added in a quick joke with their latest downtime to make the Digg vote buttons display one of 8 different symbols instead of the actual Digg vote count, which is normally shows.
Pretty interesting and yeah it fooled me for a second, but the problem is that the new addition has caused Digg to lag and crawl to a snail’s pace. It now takes forever to navigate through the site and load pages. It was so bad that I actually rebooted my computer and reset my modem thinking it might have been my connection.
Alas Digg.com, it would appear that you have gone and fooled yourself.
Digg Extends the Time Limit on Upcoming Submissions
There has been a lot of conversations over the last few months about Digg’s changes to their algorithm. The amount of Diggs required for most users was increased dramatically and caused a lot of frustration. Where you used to require up to potentially 125 Diggs to reach the front page, users are noticing some submissions requiring well over 200 now.
Here is a screen shot of what it takes to even get into the “upcoming/most” page:
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Brent Csutoras is an Internet Marketing Consultant who specializes in Social Media, Viral and Search Engine Marketing.
Brent is a regular speaker at top search marketing conferences such as SMX and Pubcon. He has also made numerous guest appearances discussing the arts of Social Media and Search Engine Marking on highly popular internet marketing radio shows such as Good Karma, Rush Hour, and Webmaster on the Roof.
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