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digg died several months ago when their comments slowly started looking a lot like youtube's
by hectorhector 18y ago
digg died several months ago when their comments slowly started looking a lot like youtube's
- river_styx 18y agoIt's been like that for a long time.
- william42 18y agoIt was always like that.
- bprater 18y agoWhat's with all the one-liners?
- stcredzero 18y agoIt's the diggification of Hacker News.
- ivankirigin 18y agoDespite my love for higher level discourse, both YouTube and Digg are doing fine without it. You don't die when the average vocal user is rude online. That's almost the definition of mainstream.
- froo 18y agoThat's exactly right. Look at World of Warcraft (WOW) vs most other mmog's, the language used by an average WOW user is much more coarse, yet WOW decimates other mmo's for subscription rates.
- stcredzero 18y agoI think this says something significant about our "society." I think this reveals where our notion of community has gone.
- ivankirigin 18y agoOnline communities are nothing like the still vibrant IRL communities. The best of both worlds is when they intersect.