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Ask HN: Why are all the Digg stories immediately killed?
I submitted mine and it was instantly a dead link.
- aditya 14y agodigg.com is perm-banned on HN, maybe because HN didn't want to become (the old) digg? EDIT: To clarify, HN didn't want to become the old digg just like HN doesn't want to become reddit. The old digg community was... Less than stellar.
- MIT_Hacker 14y agoI never used the old Digg, did it have a similar look and feel?
- mtgx 14y agoNo. It only had one main column, like say a blog, or like Reddit, but I think it also had descriptions, not just headlines on the main page. I think this one looks a lot better. But I hate that they force you to use FB login.
- mck- 14y agoWhy? Blocking competition?
- benologist 14y agoHNers likes to believe they're superior, just like redditors before them and diggers before that and etc.
- zheng 14y agoIs the fix just to submit the original? I've never used digg but isn't it just adding comments to the original story? In many ways, I think this policy should apply to reddit links as well, but at least reddit has original content like AmA's EDIT: Spelling
- douglascalhoun 14y agoHN is not a democracy. If you watch closely enough, you'll see plenty of posts (and comments, and users) disappear if the moderators do not agree with them.