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I think Slashdot beats Digg on this one. Digg didn't really even have it first since it never showed up on the home page or on any of the section home pages. It only appeared on the raw diggall area that is flooded with so much stuff that it would have been nearly impossible to have caught this. When it did appear on that page, it showed up four times with ok summaries, but with no interesting commentary at all. Slashdot can also do TWO links, shocking but true, so they were able to link both to the actual site and to the NewScientist writeup.

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I still don't understand why neither site has a 'this link has previously been posted' message when potential dupes are posted.

I think Slashdot beats Digg on this one. Digg didn't really even have it first since it never showed up on the home page or on any of the section home pages. It only appeared on the raw diggall area that is flooded with so much stuff that it would have been nearly impossible to have caught this. When it did appear on that page, it showed up four times with ok summaries, but with no interesting commentary at all. Slashdot can also do TWO links, shocking but true, so they were able to link both to the actual site and to the NewScientist writeup.

one two three four

I still don't understand why neither site has a 'this link has previously been posted' message when potential dupes are posted.

I think Slashdot beats Digg on this one. Digg didn't really even have it first since it never showed up on the home page or on any of the section home pages. It only appeared on the raw diggall area that is flooded with so much stuff that it would have been nearly impossible to have caught this. When it did appear on that page, it showed up four times with ok summaries, but with no interesting commentary at all. Slashdot can also do TWO links, shocking but true, so they were able to link both to the actual site and to the NewScientist writeup.

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I still don't understand why neither site has a 'this link has previously been posted' message when potential dupes are posted.

Also posted on digg 18 days ago: http://www.digg.com/search?search=pandora Be on the lookout for the article relating to how the songs get cached in the temp folder. Why even buy it? Honestly?

I think we could use moderated stories.

Such a thing already exists, and it's in the process of eating Slashdot's lunch. Go look at Digg.

Seriously, I'm not sure why I still read Slashdot. Especially when Digg has a live story queue which shows stories as they are submitted (only when they are moderated up do they show on the front page).

Alexa says that Digg is approximately 1/2 as popular as Slashdot, but it's quickly catching up and is on par to surpass Slashdot within a few months. And if anything of interest every shows up on Slashdot, it'll get posted on Digg. So go read Digg - it's a lot more fun than Slashdot is these days.

I think we could use moderated stories.

Such a thing already exists, and it's in the process of eating Slashdot's lunch. Go look at Digg.

Seriously, I'm not sure why I still read Slashdot. Especially when Digg has a live story queue which shows stories as they are submitted (only when they are moderated up do they show on the front page).

Alexa says that Digg is approximately 1/2 as popular as Slashdot, but it's quickly catching up and is on par to surpass Slashdot within a few months. And if anything of interest every shows up on Slashdot, it'll get posted on Digg. So go read Digg - it's a lot more fun than Slashdot is these days.

I believe you are looking for http://www.digg.com/ and/or http://www.kuro5hin.org/.

I think it's because there were no new articles for a few hours today, so they all went to digg up some news.

Fuck off

Not to feed the troll or anything, but I haven't. And I do read digg regularly. Maybe I've missed something in the half-dozen different search terms I've tried (and feel free to correct me if I have), but it seems that this comment is nothing but troll. And honestly, even if it was on digg a week ago or whatever.. Why? Do you really hate /. so much that you take time from your day to make such caustic (and useless) posts?

Mankind contributes less than .5% of the atmosphere's greenhouse gases.

Of course, you won't see this figure on Slashdot anywhere, because people are too busy bashing the US yet again (it makes you soooo hip and enlightened, dudes) to care about looking at reality, not what makes them feel elite and educated.

No wonder Digg.com is taking away all the readers. Readers get to vote on the articles over there.

"Beating the automated voice system.....Wednesday November 23, @07:49AM......rejected"
I tried to post the above, a day earlier, but it was rejected ... no wonder these guys are kicking ./ a**, and with their podcasts capability, are taking this area of news over (as I have also commented on, in an earlier article). Oh, well ...

Like, say, http://www.digg.com/spy ?

SHUT THE FUCK UP MAN!

That has got to be the most retarded post I have ever seen on /. and for some fucker to mark it as insightful shows how crap /. has become.

Technically, when we have a dupe it is 'olds' rather than 'news', ya http://www.digg.com/?

I'm going to fuck off to digg, hopefully others will fuck off with me.

Laters dudes, it's been shit.

PS. To all those sad loners sat by themselves in their bedroom in their parents house, probably giggling to themselves at the thought of replying to this saying that this was the most retarded post ever. You can FUCK OFF too, in fact, fuck off and get a girlfriend.

PPS. I almost forgot. One last big FUCK OFF to all those guys on here who suffer from the 'unappreciated genius complex' you guys are the worst of all. Sort it out, our you will have a sad and lonely life.

Mad Scientist Invents Colored Bubble
Posted by Zonk on Thursday November 17, @03:19PM

Is expecting the /. editors to read the articls they post themselves too much to ask? Apparently so, and emailing the "on-duty editor" is a complete waste of time. Digg is looking better and better...

Digg the Slashdot Killer

Digg Might Just Bury Slashdot

Digg is Almost as Big as Slashdot

Learn More

Someone else Found it on the digg_

Digg the Slashdot Killer

Digg Might Just Bury Slashdot

Learn more

The REAL question should be:

"What's the relevance of this post, given that its not really news?"

DIGG http://digg.com/ posted this over 36 HOURS ago! http://digg.com/security/Piece_of_tape_defeats_any _CD_DRM_

Cmon, editorial board! Cutting edge? Hmmm...

Well, at least the good peeps at JoT have a great sense of humour : http://www.joyoftech.com/joyoftech/joyimages/753.g if

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The REAL question should be:

"What's the relevance of this post, given that its not really news?"

DIGG http://digg.com/ posted this over 36 HOURS ago! http://digg.com/security/Piece_of_tape_defeats_any _CD_DRM_

Cmon, editorial board! Cutting edge? Hmmm...

Well, at least the good peeps at JoT have a great sense of humour : http://www.joyoftech.com/joyoftech/joyimages/753.g if

~|^

Digg the Slashdot Killer

Digg Might Just Bury Slashdot

Dig g is (Almost) as Big as Slashdot

Learn More

Digg the Slashdot Killer

Digg Might Just Bury Slashdot

Dig g is (Almost) as Big as Slashdot

Learn More

Ways to increase your chance at getting accepted is to a)write a sensationalist headline that has nothing to do with the article

Why does that sound so familiar?

Cheers

It's a joke. It's also a bit late. Why is it that alot of the articles on http://www.digg.com/ get reposted here? Are the submitter's not fast enough to get a story before them?

This gag is as old as the hills. I'm sure that I saw it on Slashdot years ago. Just because digg posted it recently, Slashdot feels the need to do so too.

Still, it is worth a read if you write code, care about source code quality, have a sense of humour and have somehow missed it until now.

This story was posted on digg.com a few hours ago.

Fuck Slashdot.

http://www.digg.com/

or

feed://www.digg.com/rss/index.xml

Fuck off

I saw this on Digg about 2 days ago. Even the title is a direct ripoff. I see so many ripoffs from Digg on /. every single day (except a few days later).

I read Slashdot about once every 2 days now, instead of my normal all throughout the day that I used to. My surfing time is now devoted to digg and Engadget(and other Weblogs Inc Blogs). You get better quality news with less dupes, better quality writeups, often humor, and just a better web experience in general.

But I do like the CSS on /. now. It makes it easier to do Greasemonkey scripts, and I'm running a couple of Slashdot user scripts now.

I hate to troll, but this is more of an open letter to /. editors. Just look at the Alexa numbers. There's a disturbance in the force. Here's a link to my digg news.

I saw this on Digg about 2 days ago. Even the title is a direct ripoff. I see so many ripoffs from Digg on /. every single day (except a few days later).

I read Slashdot about once every 2 days now, instead of my normal all throughout the day that I used to. My surfing time is now devoted to digg and Engadget(and other Weblogs Inc Blogs). You get better quality news with less dupes, better quality writeups, often humor, and just a better web experience in general.

But I do like the CSS on /. now. It makes it easier to do Greasemonkey scripts, and I'm running a couple of Slashdot user scripts now.

I hate to troll, but this is more of an open letter to /. editors. Just look at the Alexa numbers. There's a disturbance in the force. Here's a link to my digg news.

I'm missing the part in this story where Richard Stallman was "accosted" by anybody. According to the website, they just wouldn't let him leave the room for a period of time.

Why is this even front page news? Over at Digg.com, they're churning out the relevant tech news left and right.

And Digg only managed to post this once.

The sound you hear is the sound of advertisers running from Slashdot to Digg.

Didn't I read this on Digg two days ago?

Digg is much better than Slashdot.

Already posted on digg three times now.

What's that sound? Why, that's the sound of spadefuls of dirt hitting Slashdot's coffin.

Already posted on digg three times now.

What's that sound? Why, that's the sound of spadefuls of dirt hitting Slashdot's coffin.

Already posted on digg three times now.

What's that sound? Why, that's the sound of spadefuls of dirt hitting Slashdot's coffin.

Already posted on digg three times now.

What's that sound? Why, that's the sound of spadefuls of dirt hitting Slashdot's coffin.

[getting on soapbox]

i've been a user on digg.com from early on and i have a very high "rank" (top 3% of registered users). the problem is, this rank means nothing because i have no idea where it came from...am i a good digg citizen because i digg lots of stories? because i report lots of stories? because i submit very few stories? is it my comments? i mostly troll because i hate the users of digg; they are obsessed with the poser kevin rose and podcasts and everything else that is trendy and horrible. also, you want to talk about duping, slashdot looks like the washington post compared to those guys...i've seen days where the same story will be on the homepage 2-3 times! for all that there is some kind of url checking in place, it appears to only prevent you from linking to digg.com, it doesn't check if that URL has already been submitted. plus you get lots of blog spam (people link to their blog which links to what they are talking about),lame ass internet jokes (omg teh funniest pic ev4r!!!1), and advertisements for conga lines, etc.

the only reason i still go there is that they do seem to be getting stories more quickly than slashdot and for all the shit they have, an occasional gem will slip through. i'd say about 50% of the stuff on /. is neat whereas its about 5% on digg, but since digg's turnover is so high it seems to be ok...so i still use both.

One feature of digg that I never hear mention of is a little feature called Digg spy:

http://www.digg.com/spy

What sets digg apart from slashdot is the "no moderator" thing that has been said 264 times. This feature really puts that difference front and center. Digg Spy lets you have a realtime look into the heart of digg. Being able to see the stories as they are dugg lets the user watch as the site "self moderates," which really brings to light what people find interesting and how popular a topic is at any given moment.

Both Digg and Slashdot RSS feeds are my homepage... I guess I'm in the middle on this debate.

Well, at least we sorta beat them to this one:

http://www.digg.com/technology/Digg.com_makes_Slas hdot.

Well, at least we sorta beat them to this one:

http://www.digg.com/technology/Digg.com_makes_Slas hdot.

I almost always go take a gander and DIGG after spending my regular 2 hours here. Sure, digg has articles sometimes a few days before slashdot, but, like everyone else i'm sure notices, we have intelligent discussion here (and of course flames and flamebait, but hey, it's entertaining). Also, on digg, there'are waaaaaay too many stories saying "OMG we can compete with slashdot!!". I'd say atleast once a day there's something to that effect, yet we rarely post articles about it. We're not worried, but they clearly feel inferior, for good reason.
Just 8 hours ago this story was on the digg front page: http://digg.com/technology/Digg_Just_Might_Bury_Sl ashdot
Also we already have a digg article about the slashdot article. And these are only the ones that make their front page.
I just think DIGG users are too self absorbed in trying to be cooler than us, when their comment system utterly lets down any intelligent discussion.

Quick! Join Digg now to get a low UID!!

Wait... they don't have UIDs?
Will NEVER be like Slashdot

Without uber-low UIDs, nobody can say "I'm right because my number is 1,234" (and the followup comments saying "yea I wouldn't argue with him, his low-ID buddies will beat you up"

Anyways, I noticed three things
1. Their comment rating system goes from +3 Excellent to -3 SPAM (kinda like the wild old days of slashdot's moderation system)
2. someone already registered CmdrTaco
3. They have spelcheking

It's aldready there.

slashdotting dig back and so forth. Oh god, its an infinite loop! Programmers are jumping out their windows as we speak. http://digg.com/technology/Digg.com_makes_Slashdot .

If you like it really fresh, try the new http://www.digg.com/q feature. It displays stories not yet posted to the homepage sorted by most recent vote time so that you can get an idea of what are soon-to-be popular posts.

Hey, get your act together, this was on Digg 50 minutes ago!

Let's show them who's the boss! :-)

Let's show them who's the boss! :-)