NEED HELP AT DIGG.com - Ron Paul getting Buried

[woowoowoo22]

Hey folks;

We need help at Digg. It has come to my attention that there is a coordinated effort to bury Ron Paul articles at Digg. Basically this small crew of Anti-Paul folks, are searching for all Ron Paul articles and burying them. It only takes 1/10 as many buries as Digg's to kill a story.

Thousands of people learned of Ron Paul and became supporters through Digg. The Neocons and Liberals are fiercely trying to keep the cat in the bag.

I need EVERYONE's help to fight back and Digg EVERY Ron Paul article on Digg on a regular basis. Digg gets many millions of visitors per month, and we need to keep Ron Paul articles on the front page. If you are not registerd please do so.

Thanks!
Jason Oliver

 

[Bossobass]

Will do.

Bosso

 

[Quantumystic]

Sounds like what we really need here are "sKillZ"...

as in computer people with the skills to track, identify, and interupt the efforts of these people.

Sound the Clarion. Calling ALL hackers.

Save America, Hack the NeoCons!

 

[angrydragon]

I think it would be better to expose the misdeeds, lies and other things about other candidates and put in www.ronpaul2008.com and a little about him.

Shines the light on the facts (facts they don't want regular folks to know) of the other guys, while giving Ron Paul some attention.

 

[UtahApocalypse]

BAD IDEA ! We had a major "blowback" from digging every article on digg about Ron Paul. As mater of fact I know that a few have now changed from supporting RP due to the overwhelming of digg. It is fine to post and digg a FEW articles a week to keep RP's name in peoples minds but blindly digging and posting any and every article will just kill any effort at all. When the Utah straw poll was put on digg, read some of the comments.... they even stated it would have been buried except it WAS news worthy. Digg is a awesome and important resource indeed. Be caustious not to overdue our welcome and then have it come back against us.

Read this topic that was posted a few weeks ago: http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?t=847&highlight=digg

 

[woowoowoo22]

They aren't cheating....

They are merely coordinating their efforts to "bury" articles by voting them down. If an article is voted down, it will never reach the front page where thousands see it (I get 10-20k visits to my site for every front page article)

There are many more of us to reverse the trend though.

 

[woowoowoo22]

BAD IDEA ! We had a major "blowback" from digging every article on digg about Ron Paul. As mater of fact I know that a few have now changed from supporting RP due to the overwhelming of digg. It is fine to post and digg a FEW articles a week to keep RP's name in peoples minds but blindly digging and posting any and every article will just kill any effort at all. When the Utah straw poll was put on digg, read some of the comments.... they even stated it would have been buried except it WAS news worthy. Digg is a awesome and important resource indeed. Be caustious not to overdue our welcome and then have it come back against us.

If a few change their mind about Dr. Paul because they see too many articles about him on Digg, they really werent going to vote for him anyway.

There is no "blowback". Everyone who says they changed their mind are anti-Paul and trying to discourage RP articles by saying that

For every one of those clowns we might possible lose, there are hundreds if not thousands that will see the message of freedom that never have before.

I mean think about it, if you hate the War in Iraq, and are sick to death of taxes, and Government control of every area of your life, are you going to not vote for Paul because you see too many articles about him on a website? Come on now.

 

[Quantumystic]

I put out a "Distress Call".

Hopefully, people will help.

 

[slantedview]

I've experimented with a few bits of "automated Digging". It can be done, but it's hard to do it elegantly since an automated search for something like "Ron Paul" along with a bunch of automated digging will effectively digg good and bad stories about Ron Paul to the front.

Anyways, automated digging or digging certain articles up or down for various motivations are all against Digg's terms of use... but I know how it is.

 

[cujothekitten]

Maybe start digging negative articles about other candidates

 

[IrrigatedPancake]

Hold on, hold on.

I understand your concern, but digg has a community of users and we do not need to start fighting the members of a community that's as generally helpful and productive as digg just because it isn't always to our benefit.

Secondly, there's no reason to demonize "liberals", "neo-conservatives" or anyone else. The political leaders and some of their major advocates are quite possibly terrible people, but their followers just don't understand what's really happening.

If there is an article that you think is particularly important, post it, people will read it and decide if they think it is new information and that others need to know about it, then they'll digg it or not.

 

[DjLoTi]

I can tell you for sure that Fred supporters are some of the people who bury RP stories.

 

[bloggershaven]

Here Is Something For Digg

Here is my site with a digg link just click it and digg. this bury issue started about week ago i got an e mail from some people at digg about it i say screw them i always post ron paul information on digg.

http://ronpaulssupport.blogspot.com/

 

[Bison]

How can you tell if a site is being buried? I posted this article last night and it did alright. http://digg.com/2008_us_elections/Judge_Andrew_Napolitano_Ron_Paul_The_Thomas_Jefferson_Of_Our_Day .

On the CNN Poll article I posted they were digging down the comments that were left by Pro Paul people. Although I just checked it and it looks like the Paul people dugg it back up. http://digg.com/2008_us_elections/CNN_Silencing_Ron_Paul_s_Supporters

I think they fear the buzz that Ron Paul has generated with his message of freedom. The other candidates just can't compete with that. Thats why they will begin to sound like him more and more, to a point of course.

 

[bloggershaven]

How to know if it got buried

click on your profile then on your digg icon scroll down and you will see a tab that say who dugg it

 

[Bison]

Yes I can see who dugg it. But I was wondering does it show the ones who have clicked the bury link. Am I missing something?
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[walt]

I tried to use this one degree away post to get accross a pro-Paul message - not enough people here voted for it because it didn't explicitly say Ron Paul.
http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?t=2852

To be blunt, I think everyone needs to be more gentle. Yes, the goal is to get people to vote for him. But the first votes are 7 months away. The goal right now should be to educate about related issues without even mentioning Ron Paul at first to change the frame and mindset. I also don't think that Digg is the only place to focus. The traffic is very short term and the visitors aren't generally interested in complex issues.

The best analogy I can make is that most of the efforts are focused on asking to get married first without any real courtship.

 

[bloggershaven]

I Just Added To My Site For The LEts Bury Ron Pual Diggers

Check it out let me know what you think about and remember when i first heard of ron paul i did not like him till i did my own homework.

http://ronpaulssupport.blogspot.com/

 

[sbc04c]

bl;'

 

[JoshLowry]

I'd say don't digg every single article with Ron Paul's name on it.

They have very complex algorithms and I'm almost positive it counts into play a group think type of filter. If you always vote on Ron Paul titled stories and nothing else, then I believe your vote would not be worth as much as it could be.

Only vote on the important articles that have new information.