Dupes on Digg.

Digg.com is nice. It’s an interesting way to get the news people want to read out there. Though I don’t what’s more annoying; people that post stories that have been posted before, or people that keep posting “DUPE!” in the comments of duplicated stories.

Both of these people are lame. Every person that ever tried to submit a story on Digg, knows that the site will check for duplicates using two different methods when you hit the submit button. It will both check whether the URL isn’t already submitted in the past, as well as do a keyword search in previous articles, so that you can quickly check if the same article isn’t posted with a different URL already. Unfortunately, some people just ignore this and post their dupe anyway.

Then there’s the group of people that comments on these stories, complaining that it’s a dupe. These guys aren’t much better, why not report the story as duplicate, that link will not click itsself, you see. And if you are really annoyed by that user, there’s a nice ignore button.

Or is this just what makes Digg interesting? Will it be boring without emotional posts and semi-flames from annoyed people? Is this post just as stupid as using the comments to complain about others?

One thing I can guarantee though: As soon as I submit this story on Digg, people will comment things like: “Link to blog, no digg” and “This is only to get traffic to his blog, lame”, and stuff like that.

Which gives me another bunch of users to hit the ‘ole ignore button on. Goodies.