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Hmm. As a girl, I am interested in stuff like the following. My issues have never been with links, but with idiotic commentary on links. Instead, I'm stuck r
by dgabriel 18y ago
Hmm. As a girl, I am interested in stuff like the following. My issues have never been with links, but with idiotic commentary on links.
Instead, I'm stuck reading headlines like "Compressed Air Cars Coming To New Zealand" and "New maskless lithography trick may keep Moore's Law on track."
- DaniFong 18y agoDigg commentary is at times, physically painful for me to read. Like someone punched me in the gut. What stupidity and ignorance. What a cesspool. What is it about certain internet places that make people so awful? Anonymity? Or are there people actually that bad all around me, in real life, and I simply don't notice?
- dgabriel 18y agoI don't think these people really believe what they're saying, but it's very easy to let the Id take over when your name and reputation aren't on the line. All these young boys want to be the class clown, without the unfortunate ramifications, and Digg is the perfect outlet. I think this is why HN tends to be more civil and worthwhile -- you have active editors, and most people use their real names as their usernames or in their bios. ps - her crack about compressed air cars must have really hurt...
- DaniFong 18y agoYeah, it did. "Screw the environment. Those things are only interesting because of internet Male's bizarre fascination with them. Instead, let me write about whether Barack Obama is anorexic?! That's what real girls want to hear about..." Not going to let it keep me down, though. We just sent out a bunch of letters to investors. Low and behold, we now have a pitch.
- cgranade 18y agoJust who are these mythical girls that are only interesting in such tripe, anyway? I've never met one...
- DaniFong 18y agoI don't know many either. My theory is that the interests of many were formed and set in cliques in high school, which I wasn't around to see. The few people I know now who are interested in such things also enjoy science and technology and art. You know the phrase 'six degrees of separation?' I feel like it must be at least three or four. I have little to no contact with these people, even though they're all around me. I felt similarly when I went to a baseball game, once. Wow.
- cgranade 18y agoI never went to high school, so I never really grokked that kind of clique behavior. I mean, cliques can be good as they help us organize vast social networks, but I've been told they go way overboard in that environment. Even though I have never been to a sports game (excepting a Harlem Globetrotters show, but that wasn't really a game), I kind of feel the same way walking around my hometown of Fairbanks. The population is small enough that I likely have no more than two or three degrees between myself and any random stranger. It's a very odd feeling, and one that I've never gotten used to.
- PieSquared 18y agoI personally know one person who enjoys Digg more than Reddit or HN, and when asked why, he just said, "Well, it's funny." You get my point.
- cgranade 18y agoFrankly, I think it's more than just misogyny that plagues Digg. I never read the commentary anymore. To my mind, the need is for a new Digg community, or a more vocal community of us sane people. Some of the reasons that I find Slashdot a bit better are the labeled moderation system and the karma system. They help keep some of the worst trolling off the site at the cost of encouraging a sort of groupthink.