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Re: Digg vs HD-DVD: a social network revolts — updated

verbatim_dvd_cases — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 09:00:02 -0000

This is so interested! Where can I find more like this?

Re: Digg vs HD-DVD: a social network revolts — updated

Trevor — Wed, 02 May 2007 14:26:58 -0000

I can answer the filtering question: it was slipping through because users were burying it in images and applying other forms of obfuscation. Crafty.

A pitchfork revolt! I wonder, is this unique to Digg, or is a situation that all social networks will find themselves in sooner or later?

What happens if The Daily Show gets pulled from YouTube? How do you stop this? What are the implications for big brands that are clamoring to create their own soc-nets? Are they ready for such Frankensteins? Will this dissuade them?

What this shows me is that if you build it, they will come...and then kick you out if you polarize/anger enough of them. This didn't happen with the Facebook hacker though... I guess his was not cause celebre enough. Fascinating.

Please keep updating.

Re: Digg vs HD-DVD: a social network revolts — updated

Mathew — Wed, 02 May 2007 13:55:49 -0000

That's a good point, Neil. I'm pretty sure they were using some kind of filtering, but it may have gotten too much for either their automated filters or their human ones, I don't know.

The point about links is a good one too -- it's my understanding that sites can't be held (or haven't been held) responsible for content posted in comments or chat forums, etc., at least not in the U.S. anyway. But that may be just for the purposes of libel -- not sure about the DMCA.

Re: Digg vs HD-DVD: a social network revolts — updated

Neil Sanderson — Wed, 02 May 2007 13:29:49 -0000

A couple of things are unclear to me:

If Digg wanted to prevent people posting the code on the Digg site, why couldn't they use automatic filtering, such as is typically used to prevent obscenity? Surely they must have had such a system in place, along with the ability to quickly tweak it to target any specific text string. (Perhaps their system couldn't cope with the rate of postings?)

If, on the other hand, people were simply posting links to the code on other websites, is Digg actually liable?

Re: Digg vs HD-DVD: a social network revolts — updated

/pd — Wed, 02 May 2007 09:49:46 -0000

Until they ban us all :)-

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