[starman]

It's getting to the point here where a lot of lounge threads are nothing more than reruns from digg.

[jersey]

Yeah.... it's been that way for a while, and it's really annoying. If I wanted to read Digg or Cnn headlines, I'd go there.

[rickey939]

I blame Digg.®

[tooki]

Hear Hear.

tooki

[Salty]

You guys are the reason I never needed RSS before...

[ReggieX]

Golly, because everyone goes to Digg and Slashdot and

[Ratm]

Originally Posted by ReggieX

rotfl

[Leia's Left Bun]

Only been to Digg once. Nothing exciting.

I find there are more Rotten news links here than anything else.

[andreas_g4]

I think it is like marriage.

ps: and I don't get the idea of that giant smiley. Is he eating or vomiting? Or maybe he eats his vomit? Gross!

[mdc]

Maybe digg is macnn lounge lite?

[jasonsRX7]

I dig digg

[scaught]

ive never even heard of digg before.

i have made the claim at one point that this place was like Fark.

i think they all have the same crap.

[Face Ache]

Back in my day we didn't have the interweb to provide topics. We had to make our own. Out of wood.

[Oisín]

You had WOOD?

Rich kid.

[CollinG3G4]

What is digg?

[ambush]

www.digg.com

but digg.com does not have Do You Urinate In The Shower threads!!!

[Kerrigan]

I think that says more about the popularity of Digg rather than the lameness of NN. NN has always basically been a lite version of Slashdot, Drudge Report, Engadget, and a few others, it's nothing new, and I don't think it's bad for the forum.

When you actually look at those huge sites like Slashdot, Digg, Engadget, etc, all you find in the discussion area are several hundred worthless responses. Most replies are concentrated towards either end of the spectrum: ie, most replies are either incredibly lame or incredibly sly and geeky.

[jersey]

Originally Posted by Kerrigan

...When you actually look at those huge sites like Slashdot, Digg, Engadget, etc, all you find in the discussion area are several hundred worthless responses. Most replies are concentrated towards either end of the spectrum: ie, most replies are either incredibly lame or incredibly sly and geeky.

Agreed. But why do most people around here simply post a link to the story? The rule should be: If you are going to link to a news story, offer up some opinion about the subject.

Not OMG!!!! Elton John just purchased a goat. CNN Link.

Congratulations, you can read teh internets.

[Oisín]

Originally Posted by jersey

Agreed. But why do most people around here simply post a link to the story? The rule should be: If you are going to link to a news story, offer up some opinion about the subject.

It used to be, actually; but I see they’ve removed that from the Forum Guidelines. There used to be something like, “Don’t do a post-and-run: if you link to a news story or similar, provide your opinions as well, do not just post a link” in there, I’m sure.

Perhaps they removed it because nobody followed this particular rule anyway, and there was no moderation done based on it.

[Kerrigan]

The problem is that if you do type up a one or two paragraph bit on your opinions, people will whine: "Get a blog!"

We all know that people rarely read anything over 1 sentence long on MacNN.

If you don't type one liners and separate them each with a space, like in this post, people simply won't read what you've typed.

Look at this thread for instance: every single response (except for yours and mine, Oisin) is written in this single-sentence, double-spaced fashion.

[wdlove]

Awesome smile, to digg!

[Oisín]

Originally Posted by Kerrigan

We all know that people rarely read anything over 1 sentence long on MacNN.

If you don't type one liners and separate them each with a space, like in this post, people simply won't read what you've typed.

I detest ‘one-liners’, by which I mean single-line paragraphs of course. Paragraphs are both far more efficient and aesthetically far more pleasing units to use, as a general rule of thumb. Another good rule of thumb that I tend to use when posting here: if I don’t have enough to say in a thread to fill at least a short paragraph of, say, three to four lines at least, I’d just as soon not post anything at all, and usually don’t (with the exception of those occasions where I use my one line on some sort of humour in an attempt to be funny).

[nredman]

i have never heard of digg.com - so my crappy threads dont come from there - i haven't been on here much lately - the threads havent been very interesting - i am just as much to blame for that as anyone else though

[Ghoser777]

Originally Posted by Oisín

You had WOOD?

Rich kid.

I have wood all the time.