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Re: Confirmed: Digg Just Hijacked Your Twitter Links

Dave — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 02:58:18 -0000

I do not care what you call it, black hat, white hat, red hat. I will not
click on a digg link because I know it will not take me to the site offered.
A bookmark is supposed to take you where you want to go.

Re: Confirmed: Digg Just Hijacked Your Twitter Links

Gerald Weber — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 01:54:46 -0000

"I'm going to have to disagree with your use of the word 'blackhat'. Because this shift in policy in no way automates the process of converting users to a Digg account."

WTF are you talking about. Because it doesn't automate users into a digg acount it's not black hat? What they did is exactly the equivalent of black hat, but your definition of black hat is someone that automates users into opening an account? Get a clue!

Re: Confirmed: Digg Just Hijacked Your Twitter Links

@pbarbanes — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 09:26:57 -0000

I have to agree here. The things that "shock" social media people strike me as fairly trivial. But that's just me. I recognize that each person has his or her own perspective about something like this. So for me NOT to be "shocked" isn't necessarily the correct response - it's just mine. But you put it pretty well, I think.

I had some similar thoughts social media "crowd-thuggery" that were prompted by the story of the tweeter who was sued by her landlord for $50 thousand for a tweet she had posted about them. It seems that social media people are trying to have it both ways. "If I Had A Social Media Hammer" http://bit.ly/TOegB

Re: Confirmed: Digg Just Hijacked Your Twitter Links

Dagmar — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 03:31:22 -0000

I guess the rules of the game are constantly changing - hypnotic marketing, eh?!

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Re: Confirmed: Digg Just Hijacked Your Twitter Links

L Carolan — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 12:20:40 -0000

Splitting hair has new meaning.

Re: Confirmed: Digg Just Hijacked Your Twitter Links

Jamie Brown — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 05:03:48 -0000

Combine this with the Digg Bar and it seems like Digg's arrogance will be its downfall. When you get greedy with your traffic at the expense of your users, the only way is downwards IMHO.

Re: Confirmed: Digg Just Hijacked Your Twitter Links

camp185 — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 13:49:46 -0000

Hopefully Kevin will fix this, but it now sounds like a business model for some less scrupulous webmasters.

Re: Confirmed: Digg Just Hijacked Your Twitter Links

Increase website traffic — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 09:41:59 -0000

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Re: Confirmed: Digg Just Hijacked Your Twitter Links

Julius — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 14:08:53 -0000

Hmmm, redirecting folks to St. Louis? Probably not. It's more like aggregating AP or Reuters content to Mashable. I do agree however that if the right thing to do is to point traffic back to the originating site, but there is the simple fact that if you intentionally use Diggbar, you agreed to it's actions on your link. At this point, it's kinda like TV, if you don't like the show, change the channel. If you don't like what Digg is doing, don't use 'em.

Re: Confirmed: Digg Just Hijacked Your Twitter Links

onelifenofear — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 13:55:48 -0000

Hmmmm.... not sure on this... The are other url shortners... I think the one I used was zane... who (in the small print of course) specify a maximun number of clicks and then redirect the url... You kind of expect this from small site... but from Digg? Me thinks they will change it back shortly...

Re: Confirmed: Digg Just Hijacked Your Twitter Links

Megapewpew — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 13:41:53 -0000

Oh please, get off your high horse. Things happen, besides one would think Jay would be the controller and even then if you truly folly Kevin you would know both of them are smart enough to understand that doing something like this would backfire. More then likely one of their code-monkeys made a stupid mistake. For Kevin not to know about something like this means it didn't go through the proper channels. I absolutely love all the dramatizing of people crying victim and fou people love to play the role.

And I love all these other comments about taking ownership and what not from more then likely people who haven't a clue what happens inside a company. Are you people so dense you dont even know who the "boss" is.

Re: Confirmed: Digg Just Hijacked Your Twitter Links

James — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 13:30:27 -0000

Rose: "No, I just founded the bloody thing. I don't have any idea what's on the roadmap".

Re: Confirmed: Digg Just Hijacked Your Twitter Links

Megapewpew — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 13:09:21 -0000

Re: Confirmed: Digg Just Hijacked Your Twitter Links

Megapewpew — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 12:51:35 -0000

I dunno, I thought it was fairly obvious someone just made a mistake. Kevin and Jay aren't stupid when it comes to things like this. They would have known it would look bad for them. While ya it was a big mistake I swear some of you like to play the drama card a little to much.

Re: Confirmed: Digg Just Hijacked Your Twitter Links

spryka — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 12:48:19 -0000

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Re: Confirmed: Digg Just Hijacked Your Twitter Links

Gerald Weber — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 12:37:12 -0000

I'm calling shenanigans on him being on vacation and not being aware of the change.

Re: Confirmed: Digg Just Hijacked Your Twitter Links

Michelle Dale — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 11:57:06 -0000

Sad to hear about this, but thanks for posting this very valuable info. I can't help but agree. This will greatly impact Digg users.

Re: Confirmed: Digg Just Hijacked Your Twitter Links

blupa — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 10:46:57 -0000

That really sucks.

Re: Confirmed: Digg Just Hijacked Your Twitter Links

Ben Cook — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 10:36:31 -0000

Keif, take a minute to read the complaints and it might help you understand what the uproar is about.

First of all, Digg has redirected a TON of links to their site that WERE helping the source sites rank in search engines.

Secondly, Digg already knows the problem with this approach as they dealt with the issue when they first launched the DiggBar. To change things now is a pathetic & desperate attempt to get more traffic. It's obvious they need to bring in revenue and fast, but this is NOT the way to go about it.

Re: Confirmed: Digg Just Hijacked Your Twitter Links

Bas Grasmayer — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 09:25:01 -0000

Eh! Nasty. Never Digging anything again.

Re: Confirmed: Digg Just Hijacked Your Twitter Links

Ambarish Mitra — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 07:23:13 -0000

Digg cant take its followers and community for granted. How can Kevin Rose be oblivious to these changes.

Re: Confirmed: Digg Just Hijacked Your Twitter Links

Daina Thomas — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 04:41:13 -0000

May be you are right .. Steve ... may be it the idea was too fascinating for Digg ...

Cheers!
Daina

Re: Confirmed: Digg Just Hijacked Your Twitter Links

Splinter09 — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 04:02:57 -0000

Yeah right Kevin Rose, you were not aware of these changes! That is going down as one of the funniest tweets of the year, what do u think we all are? stupids to say the least!

Re: Confirmed: Digg Just Hijacked Your Twitter Links

Aniruddh D — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 03:24:33 -0000

should we say that Digg.com not using the friendly 301 redirect right now?

Re: Confirmed: Digg Just Hijacked Your Twitter Links

Awais Imran — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 03:11:25 -0000

*buries digg.com*