Digg Caught Red-Handed Censoring Ron Paul Stories

[Phantom]

Digg Caught Red-Handed Censoring Ron Paul Stories

Self-proclaimed 'digital democracy' expunges articles after just a single bury

UPDATE: After just one bury, this article too was deleted from Digg's upcoming category.

The self-proclaimed 'digital democracy' Digg.com has been caught red-handed artificially suppressing and censoring Ron Paul stories by expunging them from the website with just one bury, despite the fact that thousands of other Digg users are voting the stories up.

Digg allows users to vote stories up (digg them) or vote them down (bury them). The content of Digg's main page, which receives millions of readers a day, is decided upon this apparently democratic system.

For months allegations have been flying around concerning how stories about Ron Paul, which routinely receive well over a thousand diggs, rarely make it to the main page on Digg as a "popular" item.

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[liberty_Forever]

I am boycotting digg.

 

[UtahApocalypse]

Digg uses complex algorithms to determine a story success. Digg is NOT screwing with anything. Just because you dont know the inner workings of how the site functions does not mak them evil.

 

[TownHall08]

Who owns digg?

 

[roXet]

Kevin Rose owns Digg, he's good people

 

[nike]

5 mega corporations own 85% of the US media, including internet services. Mainstream media do not report accurately nor unbiased. Please stop acting surprised when these things happen, they have been happening for years.

 

[TownHall08]

Did Murdoch purchase digg?

 

[SleepingNative]

Please help us get our Digg numbers up?

http://digg.com/political_opinion/4_Reasons_Why_Ron_Paul_is_Good_for_Environment

Peace,
Philip

 

[Cleaner44]

Digg uses complex algorithms to determine a story success. Digg is NOT screwing with anything. Just because you dont know the inner workings of how the site functions does not mak them evil.

Riley's Ron Paul story was removed from Digg's upcoming section after receiving just one bury, despite the fact that it had received 43 diggs.

 

[UtahApocalypse]

Please help us get our Digg numbers up?

http://digg.com/political_opinion/4_Reasons_Why_Ron_Paul_is_Good_for_Environment

Peace,
Philip

Doing stuff like that is WHY Ron Paul has a higher threshold to get on front page and a lower one to be buried. When you use collusion to influence a topic it becomes harder to bring it up.

 

[Cleaner44]

I will now bury everything at Digg related to any candidate other than Ron Paul.

 

[UtahApocalypse]

Riley's Ron Paul story was removed from Digg's upcoming section after receiving just one bury, despite the fact that it had received 43 diggs.

So? I have seen stoies about many subjects get buried with lots worse ratios. I saw a story with 1200 diggs get tossed with 4 buries..... it was a Apple story.

 

[spiteface]

Riley's Ron Paul story was removed from Digg's upcoming section after receiving just one bury, despite the fact that it had received 43 diggs.

It also says "SPAM" under reason for bury, which is what some people keep doing with anything they can think of to type that is Ron Paul related - though it clearly just pisses people off.

 

[OrbitalGun]

Can someone Digg the Digg boycott

 

[Laja]

I used to love Digg. I no longer go there because all the Ron Paul stories are buried. I've seen the evidence of a group of people who make it their job to bury all Ron Paul stories on Digg. They brag about how they've saved the world from seeing another RP story.

When I sent the evidence (with links) to Kevin Rose, I got no response. So I'm writing them off. Reddit is the place to go now.

 

[Mark]

Someone outed Digg a long time ago. It's controlled.

 

[snaFU]

Don't click on the link Alex Jones sites make money off you by selling your info to people who spam ads.

 

[RobS]

I've been a part of Digg since day one, literally the first day it was released to the public.

I don't think many of you understand that Digg is a community, just like ConservativeUnderground is. Spamming them about EVERY LITTLE THING Ron does is not helpful. Digg has complex algorithms that make some diggs worth more than others, and some buries worth more than others. So, when Ron Paul stories start getting promoted like crazy for awhile, it gets weighted so that stories with Ron Paul take more diggs to get to the frontpage and less buries to get buried. It is the same thing with Apple stuff. Not some big conspiracy.

Kevin Rose is NOT the bad guy, it is a small independent company not owned by some big corporation. There is NO conspiracy here. Just Digg the stories that are really quality and deserve to be seen about Ron Paul.

 

[Laja]

http://reddit.com/

 

[blakjak]

I've been a part of Digg since day one, literally the first day it was released to the public.

I don't think many of you understand that Digg is a community, just like ConservativeUnderground is. Spamming them about EVERY LITTLE THING Ron does is not helpful. Digg has complex algorithms that make some diggs worth more than others, and some buries worth more than others. So, when Ron Paul stories start getting promoted like crazy for awhile, it gets weighted so that stories with Ron Paul take more diggs to get to the frontpage and less buries to get buried. It is the same thing with Apple stuff. Not some big conspiracy.

Kevin Rose is NOT the bad guy, it is a small independent company not owned by some big corporation. There is NO conspiracy here. Just Digg the stories that are really quality and deserve to be seen about Ron Paul.

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How can people complain about Digg? Seriously, Ron Paul stories are consistently on the top 10. As the abover post mentioned, people do not understand the algorithms. Ron Paul stories do legitimately get buried by users...I've even buried a few myself because I did not think they were digg-worthy. Digg, itself, is censoring nothing - please move on.