Be honest, do you Digg?
That’s the question that I submitted to Slashdot. In the poll I gave the following options:
- What the hell is Digg?
- I tried Digg but didn’t like it.
- I Digg every once and a while.
- I Digg like Slashdot.
I’m curious to see if my poll will be posted and if it is what the responses will be. IMHO Digg and Slashdot users are as different as night and day. Digg users seem to have a mob mentality and if you read their comments regarding the RIAA/MPAA or DRM/DMCA you’d swear that a 16 year old wrote it. On the flip side, Slashdot users have the tendancy to be “overwhelming Linux zealots” but at the same time their comments have logic. You know, something besides, “F* the RIAA” or “You’re so F*n stupid that your F*n ___ is F*n gay.”
Obviously these examples don’t apply to everyone on Digg or Slashdot and it’s just my observation. However if you spend time on these sites you’ll see what I mean. Aside from the users I’ve noticed that Digg tends to post information sooner than Slashdot. This is not always the case but I usually see an article in Digg before I see it on Slashdot. Unfortunately a good majority of the Digg articles link to the submitters blog rather than the actual article. This is something that Slashdot has done a very good job in minimizing.
So, which one do you use and why?
I make use of both websites on a daily basis, but there’s far more junk at Digg than there is at Slashdot. The audience at Digg also seems much younger than at Slashdot, something that I tend to dislike. Perhaps this is a side effect of websites like MySpace. It’s definitely a reason why there’s more junk. Lots of the posts on Digg are links to stories that the poster has obviously not read. There’s a lot of stories on piracy at Digg too, another sign of the general age of the audience (although Slashdot has had its share of similar stories in the past week or two).
Digg does indeed tend to post things far before Slashdot, but the signal to noise ratio is much lower (way more noise). That being said, I have found a number of interesting things at Digg that I don’t think would have ever shown up at Slashdot.