Is Digg the new hideout for the morons that Youtube rejected?
4 Comments Published by mulletgod November 10th, 2008By a strange twist of fate, my latest self portrait, featuring the Cookie Monster, was submitted by someone to digg.com, a popular social bookmarking site. The way these sites work is people submit their links and others vote the content of the link up or down, until the most popular ones end up at the top of the list. My social bookmarking site of choice is reddit.com, the content there is more intelligent, the people less immature and generally, a more intellectually stimulating place than digg. In fact, I make an effort to read reddit everyday, just so I know what’s going on around the world.
Anyway, back to the photo. Somehow, the photo managed to get onto the front page of digg, and in around 48 hours, had amassed around 105000 views on my flickr stream. Kinda cool huh?
I had been pretty surprised and had no idea where the huge traffic was coming from; A simple check of the stats showed digg as the main source and having found the submission on digg, I read through the comments. While nearly 1100 people had “dugg” the photo (ie. vote up), nearly all of the comments were hilariously stupid! These are some of my favourites!
its funny, but it doesnt look too real
OH MY GOD
i get it it’s cookie monster.
he looks more scary in real life.
shouldn’t he be eating carrots now or something?!
I’d been a user of digg in the past (before I realised how negative and mindless it was) and using my login, I left a little note saying that it was my photo, part of my 52 week project, blah blah. You’d figure people would see it, appreciate the photo for what it was and stop being idiots, but no, the humour continued!
This remind me of my ex girlfriend… shes such a bitch.
Not that impressive. Just a tub full of jizz with a layer of cookies on top. Oh, yeah, and Cookie Monster.
I find this unsettling.
that looks like crap.
‘tarded
Thanks digg, you’ve given me a couple of days of humerous reading while also making me realise why I chose reddit! :)
I can’t believe somebody thought you were the real Cookie Monster. Bit concerned as to what the later commenter’s ex girlfriend looked like though…
Apparently a ton more people liked it than not if it made it to the front page, so don’t concern yourself with the negative comments. You little perfectionist, you :)
Hi,
Don’t worry, most comments on digg are like a popularity contest, to see who gets the most laughs. I got here through digg and I think you are a VERY VERY talented photographer, the way you work with light to make dramatize scenes (or the opposite – making them light headed) is truly amazing. It’s not all negative I’ve senn through you entire stream and now subscribed to your RSS (even though it’s aalways open in one tab) thanks to digg.
Don’t worry – most of the people that dugg your photo did it because they thought it was good, not because of their ex.
Ziv :)
The big problem is that popularity brings mediocrity. Happens everywhere if things aren’t kept “exclusive”, but the very notion of making them exclusive means that they are not accessible. It’s a challenge I find myself thinking about.