Does this annoy anyone else?

[plb]

I'm probably going to get flamed for this but I feel I must speak my mind on this matter. I like Ubuntu, I run it on one of my boxes, and I find it to have a great community and an all around great distro. However, is anyone else annoyed by the fact people continuously submit trivial stories to sites like digg and osnews on a daily basis. I'm all for good stories but stories such as "How to change the brown color on Ubuntu" or "I'm thinking of switching to Ubuntu" or "New such and such for Ubuntu" Half of these stories aren't even relevant to just Ubuntu but Linux in general. Surely, I can't be the only one annoyed by this?

[aysiu]

I won't flame you, but I will say that if you continue to use Digg... get used to it. There's not really anything you can do to stop it.

[Mazza558]

I don't really mind. Digg contains a fair few people who use Ubuntu, and a LOT of people who are considering switching. Any publicity is good publicity.

I'd argue that Ubuntu wouldn't be half as popular today if it wasn't for Digg. Digg and Ubuntu formed around the same time, so they're like brothers growing up together.

[SectionThree]

What's Digg?

[John.Michael.Kane]

What's Digg?

This is http://digg.com/
More on it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digg

[ticopelp]

Just about everything on Digg is trivial. If it wasn't about Ubuntu, it'd be about something else.

Personally, if it spreads the word and gets more people to try it, I'm all for it.

[K.Mandla]

Digg (http://www.digg.com) is a PR tool for Ubuntu fans. :D :D :D

[jfinkels]

I don't really mind. Digg contains a fair few people who use Ubuntu, and a LOT of people who are considering switching. Any publicity is good publicity.

I'd argue that Ubuntu wouldn't be half as popular today if it wasn't for Digg. Digg and Ubuntu formed around the same time, so they're like brothers growing up together.

It's true, we get a lot of publicity from Digg. Actually, I think I was influenced by Digg to switch over to Ubuntu!

Digg is a silly, silly place. For many of the stories that have top ratings, I am tempted to use the button to Bury the story with the "Ok...This is lame..." caption.

Just don't take it too seriously :)

[jfinkels]

Digg (http://www.digg.com) is a PR tool for Ubuntu fans. :D :D :D

lol

[RAV TUX]

What's Digg?I agree to a point. While I know of Digg I have never used it or referenced it in any way. I understand that it is sort of like StumbleUpon (http://www.stumbleupon.com/) but not as feature rich.

Digg

Digg is a community-based popularity website with an emphasis on technology (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology) and science articles, recently expanding to a broader range of categories such as politics and entertainment. It combines social bookmarking (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_bookmarking), blogging (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog), and syndication (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_syndication) with a form of non-hierarchical, democratic (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy) editorial control.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digg

Stumbleupon

StumbleUpon is a web browser plugin (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Browser_plugin) that allows its users to discover and rate webpages, photos, videos, and news articles. These webpages are typically presented when the user clicks the Stumble button on the browser's toolbar (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Browser%27s_toolbar). StumbleUpon chooses which new webpage to display based on the user's ratings of previous pages, ratings by his/her friends, and by the ratings of users with similar interests. i.e. it is a recommendation system (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recommendation_system) which uses peer and social networking (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_networking) principles. There is also one-click blogging (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weblog) built in as well. Users can rate, or choose not to rate, any webpage with a thumbs up or thumbs down, and clicking the Stumble button resembles "channel-surfing (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channel-surfing)" the web. Toolbar versions exist for Firefox (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox), Mozilla Application Suite (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Application_Suite) and Internet Explorer (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Explorer).http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StumbleUpon

While the definitions are completely different from Wikipedia, It could be said that Stumbleupon also features:


It combines social bookmarking (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_bookmarking), blogging (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog), and syndication (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_syndication) with a form of non-hierarchical, democratic (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy) editorial control.I am sure that both are great PR for Ubuntu, as well as all of Linux and Open Source.

Also on Stumbleupon I actually have a group dedicated to users new to Ubuntu and experienced user with Ubuntu to mentor new Ubuntu users founded on Oct. 13 2005:
Nu Tu Ubuntu (http://nu-tu-ubuntu.group.stumbleupon.com/)

[lepz]

Lots of things annoy me in this world. Tony Blair...George Bush....the war in Iraq...world poverty....climate change, but digg is not one of them ;)

[SectionThree]

Digg (http://www.digg.com) is a PR tool for Ubuntu fans. :D :D :D
:guitar:
Right! Then I'm all for it!

[Tundro Walker]

Imagine your at a massive outdoor party...like hundreds of thousands of people. You're all milling about, when suddenly some loud noises start popping in the distances. You hear some shouts, then some mumblings. You ask around. As word travels, you find out from 5 different people that it was just fire-crackers that somebody lit off. Another person thinks it was gun-fire. Another person thinks it was gun-fire, and they were shooting someone who was trying to cut in line for the toilets. Another person thinks it was a corporate cover-up to hide the fact that someone at the other end of the party is smuggling in some cheeto's. What you finally realize is...

1) these folks have way too much time on there hands to be at this party to begin with
2) they really have way too much time on their hands if their so bored that they get excited about some popping noise in the distance
3) they probably don't have lives if 90% of them are just regurgitating news that somebody else already broke
4) they especially don't have lives if they feel the need to make up conspiracy theories about that petty news
5) after seeing it all, you really don't care
6) but because you don't have a life, you stay at the party and mingle, waiting for the next semi-interesting thing to happen, which you'll hear through the grape-vine from 15 different people again

There you go...welcome to Digg...

[SectionThree]

So... Is goatse still funny there then?

[koenn]

... or "New such and such for Ubuntu". Half of these stories aren't even relevant to just Ubuntu but Linux in general. Surely, I can't be the only one annoyed by this?
I don't do Digg so I don't care what happens there, but I can relate to the "Half of these stories aren't even relevant to just Ubuntu but Linux in general". That does annoy me as well. Slightly. Usually I just shake my head slowly, feel all old and wise, and think "these kids, they just have no idea what they're talking about'.

[SectionThree]

Hmmmm.... shall we spam the **** outta them then?