Anti-Ron Paul digg spammer EXPOSED

[LibertyCzar]

90% of them below 18. FACT. Quit wasting your time and go outside and talk to real voters.

Ron Paul wants us to continue to use Digg. Look at the Campaign blog. There's a reason we are asked to Digg This! for every blog entry. I'm not trying to be snotty or anything. But I am trying to interpret what Ron Paul wants us to do, not what we interpret to be the best thing. And for now, the campaign sees some sort of virtue with the continued use of Digg.

 

[torchbearer]

digg is erasing the accounts of people who post ron paul stories. obviously we are not welcomed. our time may be best spent promoting another website and helping them with internet traffic.

 

[drinkbleach]

Ron Paul wants us to use digg? Digg doesn't want to see anymore Ron Paul stories. Someone should bring this up to the campaign managers so that we can officially change venues.

 

[LibertyCzar]

digg is erasing the accounts of people who post ron paul stories. obviously we are not welcomed. our time may be best spent promoting another website and helping them with internet traffic.

Perhaps we should then write a letter to Kent Snyder, explaining the rough treatment at Digg. Either the campaign will discontinue its encouragement of Digg, or it will do something to help smooth things over at Digg. But my point is that I am trying not to let my pride get in the way of promoting Ron Paul. If Digg wants to ban me for it, that's up to them. But I do think something happened yesterday. Not only Ron Paul supporters were affected.

On a totally unrelated sidenote, when you guys post comments on Digg, do you have to enter those verification letters? I had to until two days ago. This is really weird.

 

[SeanEdwards]

digg is erasing the accounts of people who post ron paul stories. obviously we are not welcomed. our time may be best spent promoting another website and helping them with internet traffic.

Win.

 

[pazzo83]

We can't let this continue people. First YouTube, and now Digg, are actively silencing free expression. That is the hallmark of the internet, and they are blatantly violating it.

 

[torchbearer]

All we can do is support that sites that are still free press. advertisers spend their money on sites that have traffic... lets move ron paul storys to another 'digg-type' site and reward them with our patronage.

 

[LibertyCzar]

torchbearer,

I think I have figured out Digg, a little. The problem is I was using Digg as an only promote Ron Paul site. This is what got some people ticked off, and others marginalized.

Now I am going for the diversity. I am Digging and commenting on matters totally unrelated to politics, such as technology and sports. I think people would look at us more seriously (especially the powers that be) if we stopped using Digg only to promote Ron Paul, while ignoring all other aspects of Digg. That was my mistake at first. I only Dugg and commented on Ron Paul stuff. But now I see no harm in Digging a legitimate story on something like say, the new television season of Heroes.

 

[jron]

torchbearer,

I think I have figured out Digg, a little. The problem is I was using Digg as an only promote Ron Paul site. This is what got some people ticked off, and others marginalized.

Now I am going for the diversity. I am Digging and commenting on matters totally unrelated to politics, such as technology and sports. I think people would look at us more seriously (especially the powers that be) if we stopped using Digg only to promote Ron Paul, while ignoring all other aspects of Digg. That was my mistake at first. I only Dugg and commented on Ron Paul stuff. But now I see no harm in Digging a legitimate story on something like say, the new television season of Heroes.

LibertyCzar, You are correct. That is the way to do it. Digg WILL ban you if you only use Digg to push a political agenda. Digg doesn't want to be a propaganda mouthpiece and I can't blame them =) Digg is a great tool; use it wisely.

 

[tsoldrin]

The problem is... folks like us restrain ourselves somewhat on digg - at least for the most part and at least I hope we do. But there are hundreds or even thousands of linewolf Ron Paul fans out there perpetually submitting every Ron Paul thing they find and that's part of the backlash problem. Of course there are other problems, but I'm just talking about from 'our' end. There's really nothing to do about that. Those folks are going to continue to anger diggers and we really can't even reach them to talk about it. They are independent agents.

I say just bury the duplicates and digg the worthy articles... make the best of it. With 20 million readers, it's always going to be worthwhile to at least try.

On my personal experience, the diggs and burys on articles I submit do not reflect my referrer logs at all. Zero of the bury people and relatively few of the diggs actually come from digg, but instead from other sourches like search engines and technorati.