If you watched episode 102 of Diggnation then you probably saw the little PSA that Kevin and Alex did at the end of the show talking about people downloading Diggnation early from rehosting websites (mainly one in particular). This resulted in a large debate, in the Rev3 forums, about early downloads and whether it was really worth it to pay Rev3 for that and barely any special premium members content. Another item that was brought up was that many people download the episode early from the rehosting site and then download it AGAIN from Revision3 a couple days later when it becomes available to the public (thus ensuring that they still get "points" or whatever with their advertisers). You'd think that Revision3 would welcome discussion on this issue so that they could find out what their userbase is thinking, right? Wrong... well sorta.
At first, the initial topic about the subject was thriving. It seems as if the mods just got sick of it after a while and decided to lock the topic. One mod in particular, phatlip12, began to get annoyed when people pointed out that he had the grammatical skills of a 12 year old. The topic was ended with this post by phatlip12: "Alright, this has gone on long enough and episode 102 has gone and past. Downloading episodes of Diggnation early without paying hurts Revision3. The CEO of Revision3, the show hosts and the forum staff is telling you this. You can take it or leave it." So much for civil discussion, eh?
So now we're at the point where the mods lock any topic regarding paying for early Diggnation downloads, rehosting sites, or anything regarding the debate that went on in the initial topic. This is RIDICULOUS. They shouldn't censor entire subjects of discussion like this just because a part of the userbase thinks that they are in the wrong for once. The entire point for them even having the Revision3 message boards is to encourage discussion about the shows and now they lock any topic on site that even mentions this subject?
I thought that Revision3 was different from the big media companies because it listened to the users, but now they're shutting us out. Please, digg this up if you want to let them know that this sort of thing is NOT what we expect to get from Revision3.
Original debate topic: http://revision3.com/forum/showthread.php?t=7024
Recent topic that was locked because it tried to bring this debate back into the light: http://revision3.com/forum/showthread.php?t=7522
Thursday, July 5, 2007
Tuesday, May 1, 2007
Diggers freak out over NOTHING
Alright, I feel like I need to chime in on this whole Digg HD-DVD controversy.
This hex code somehow allows you to crack the HD-DVD copy protection. Alright, that's cool. How does it work? I have yet to see a link that tells me how to use this mysterious code, but I've been off doing other shit too. But wait, Digg gets a cease and desist notice to take the shit down. Alright, that's expected. It's not like they have big red barns of money stationed throughout California, so yeah, of COURSE they're going to take the stories down. Hell, we don't want to see Digg sued into nothingness, do we? So then the stories with the key get deleted. But wait, 10 TRILLION OTHER LITTLE SHITS post it again, and AGAIN, AND AGAIN.
But wait, then 12 billion other people link to articles discussing the HD-DVD thing and how OH LAWDY WE IS BEIN CENSORED. Now, the entire front page is filled with this crap (nevermind the fact that anyone who cares already has the code). But wait, now stories about the HD-DVD thing are getting dugg down. Well it MUST be the admins, right! I mean, as opposed to getting rid of a story the PERMANENT WAY they must be using digg bots to digg them all down.
Are you people serious? It's not mystical ninja digg bots digging you idiots down. It's the fact that people are SICK of seeing shit about the HD-DVD code and they want to see ACTUAL TECH STORIES. Quite your bitching! You made your point, now for the love of Christ, start adding and digging regular stories. Hell, if the admins DID decide to just delete ALL of the HD-DVD stuff thats on the front page right now, I'd cheer. I want to see something interesting, not the same old shit rehashed 12 billion times.
This hex code somehow allows you to crack the HD-DVD copy protection. Alright, that's cool. How does it work? I have yet to see a link that tells me how to use this mysterious code, but I've been off doing other shit too. But wait, Digg gets a cease and desist notice to take the shit down. Alright, that's expected. It's not like they have big red barns of money stationed throughout California, so yeah, of COURSE they're going to take the stories down. Hell, we don't want to see Digg sued into nothingness, do we? So then the stories with the key get deleted. But wait, 10 TRILLION OTHER LITTLE SHITS post it again, and AGAIN, AND AGAIN.
But wait, then 12 billion other people link to articles discussing the HD-DVD thing and how OH LAWDY WE IS BEIN CENSORED. Now, the entire front page is filled with this crap (nevermind the fact that anyone who cares already has the code). But wait, now stories about the HD-DVD thing are getting dugg down. Well it MUST be the admins, right! I mean, as opposed to getting rid of a story the PERMANENT WAY they must be using digg bots to digg them all down.
Are you people serious? It's not mystical ninja digg bots digging you idiots down. It's the fact that people are SICK of seeing shit about the HD-DVD code and they want to see ACTUAL TECH STORIES. Quite your bitching! You made your point, now for the love of Christ, start adding and digging regular stories. Hell, if the admins DID decide to just delete ALL of the HD-DVD stuff thats on the front page right now, I'd cheer. I want to see something interesting, not the same old shit rehashed 12 billion times.
Sunday, March 18, 2007
Digg DESPERATELY needs a new reporting feature
Just today I was browsing around the digg video section when right smack at the top was a video I added... 126 days ago. At the time it got a measly 3 diggs. I was rather taken aback when I saw this. Alright, so digg finally caught on to something that was cool many months ago, but I had added it! So naturally I dugg it down for being a duplicate story and posted a comment about this in the comments section. Naturally people dugg that down because... well I'm not sure.
Maybe they didn't like being told how old something they thought was so new and cool was. Given, it's still very cool, but it's not new at all. Hell, by the time I had seen the video it could have been considered old. But nevertheless it had already been submitted and duplicate stories are generally supposed to get dugg down... right?
So this brings up an issue, when a story that is that popular gets to the front page, but has already been added, but wasn't popular the first time around, it's nearly impossible to get it dugg down. Thus, I had an idea. Call in an extension of digging down because of duplicate story. Instead of just clicking the button to digg down because of duplicate story, a little box could pop up and require you to put in the URL of the story that this is a duplication of. Then that gets shoved off to digg moderators (there are moderators on digg, right? Well if there aren't there should be). And they could compare the story to the supposed duplication, if they're a match, a few clicks could transfer all the diggs to their rightful owner and the duplicate story gets deleted.
Not only does this serve to reward the people who get stories up first, but it cleans up the clutter from 12 billion submissions of the same "APPLE ANNOUNCES THE IPHONE" stories.
In case you were wondering...
Popularized video: The most dangerous long-take scene ever.
My original submission: 4 minute stedicam shot from The Protector
Maybe they didn't like being told how old something they thought was so new and cool was. Given, it's still very cool, but it's not new at all. Hell, by the time I had seen the video it could have been considered old. But nevertheless it had already been submitted and duplicate stories are generally supposed to get dugg down... right?
So this brings up an issue, when a story that is that popular gets to the front page, but has already been added, but wasn't popular the first time around, it's nearly impossible to get it dugg down. Thus, I had an idea. Call in an extension of digging down because of duplicate story. Instead of just clicking the button to digg down because of duplicate story, a little box could pop up and require you to put in the URL of the story that this is a duplication of. Then that gets shoved off to digg moderators (there are moderators on digg, right? Well if there aren't there should be). And they could compare the story to the supposed duplication, if they're a match, a few clicks could transfer all the diggs to their rightful owner and the duplicate story gets deleted.
Not only does this serve to reward the people who get stories up first, but it cleans up the clutter from 12 billion submissions of the same "APPLE ANNOUNCES THE IPHONE" stories.
In case you were wondering...
Popularized video: The most dangerous long-take scene ever.
My original submission: 4 minute stedicam shot from The Protector
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