The Rigging Of Digg: How A Covert Mob Of Conservatives Hijacked The Web’s Top Social News Site

http://digg.com/d31YzU4 ^ | Aug 5th, 2010 | The Public Record

[Drango]

Digg Patriots? I was never asked to join! Harumppppppp!

[Right Cal Gal]

Somehow, I didn’t hear this wailing and moaning when the libs were doing it to conservative items. My my my....

[GSWarrior]

Black helicopter alert!

[j.argese]

well said, err written ...

[RightFighter]

Good for them. I remember when this was getting started here on FR. I didn’t really understand Digg or what they were trying to do. Looks like they were wildly sucessful. They should have called themselves “Diggolist”.

[Albion Wilde]

While the Digg userbase skews young, progressive, and irreligious, the DPs [Digg Patriots] strove to promote young earth creationism, global warming denial, and a variety of virulent conspiracy theories involving the Obama Administration. In truth, Digg Patriots was a hotbed for the most dissident of the Tea Party crowd, eagerly spreading the most baseless and inaccurate conservative memes and peppering their chosen stories with empty one-liners before forcing it to the front page.

Who the heck is Digg? And how can they have an open site and then complain that some of the people posting there do not belong to their preferred "user base"? Does anyone know if they have a preferred type of poster declaimed on their front page, as FR does?

[UB355]

Google,Yahoo,Twitter trending feature is bogus also.

[DJ MacWoW]

Seems to me that I read a study recently that had far left libs at only 20% of the population. That means there's more conservatives than liberals. Leave it to the lefties to cry that the MAJORITY cheats because there's more of us.

Btw, I'm not on digg. Never have been. Don't care who they are or think they are.

[myself6]

Lol ..

Feed off their tears...

[listenhillary]

Borders on discrimination doesn’t it?

Help! Help! We’re being oppressed!

[Little Ray]

COOL!
How can I help “subvert” Digg?

[rightsmart]

I never got the Digg Patriots memo. Would someone please freepmail it to me?

[xzins]

Apparently, lots of people have more time and patience on their hands than I do. I can’t imagine getting multiple identities so I can go vote in polls.

I doubt that most people would....freeper or not.

Therefore, this article is probably just propaganda.

[BlueLancer]

"Help! Help! We’re being oppressed!"

Quick! Come see the violence inherent in the system!

[Albion Wilde]

Borders on discrimination doesn’t it? Help! Help! We’re being oppressed!

Yup. Libtard anthem: "Don't confuse me with the facts; my mind is already made up!"

[MEGoody]

. . .at FreeRepublic, a bastion of radical right-wing opinion. . .

ROFL

I was a radical leftist back in my hippie days. I guess I'm a radical of a different sort now that I'm older and wiser.

[WomBom]

Toilet for short

[Billthedrill]

These guys flatter themselves. FReeping was going on a decade before this, fully nine years of it before they opened their little popularity-contest site. If they don’t think the hive mind on the Left does it they aren’t paying attention to their own numbers.

[listenhillary]

Sign up for a dig account. Watch for the digg icon on articles you support to bump them to the top of the heap.

[Twotone]

“And when they find themselves outnumbered, freepers have no trouble simply cheating, changing their IP addresses and using automated scripts to vote thousands of times.”

Someone here knows how to do that? Why didn’t they tell me?! ;-)