Threatened by truth? How sad. If the only way you can get your own message out is by silencing others, you have a real problem. I see I was one of their targets. What cowards.
FTA: The primary function of the Digg Patriots is to censor politically progressive content from the upcoming Political, Political Opinion, World News, and Business sections, so that conservative stories have a better chance to get more traction. To do this, they constantly monitor these sections, progressive submitters, and news websites.
Whether I agree with Bjornski, Anamaly100, PhilPerspective, Novenator, JanineWallace, UncaJoe, & a couple others I can’t think of right now, I bury `em anyway. *ACTUALLY* each of them has been “dead-on, balls-accurate” (an industry term) at least once in the past week or so, and it sort-of pains me to be dishonest by burying them anyway, but then I remember . . . I’m not up for re-election!
-BentheDog
Way to go on uncovering this and naming those involved
I knew it. I f**king knew it. I knew it over a year ago when they were gaming Digg from their #DiggCons Twitter page:
http://digg.com/political_opinion/DiggCons_The_HQ_for_conservatives_spamming_Digg
They spiked that story (despite it getting nearly 300 authentic diggs -- I only had a handful of Digg friends) and then vanished into the woodwork. I thought they'd given up, but they obviously just holed up even deeper. And they've denied it endlessly and called people who complained about the daily right-wing circle-jerks paranoid. f**king assh**es. Every last one of them should be banned.
received back:
Hello from Digg.com.
The issue is being investigated. We appreciate your concern, and thank you for taking the time to contact Digg.
If there are any other issues, please don't hesitate to contact us.
-The Digg Support Team.
I would encourage others to contact Digg support about this as well.
One of the Digg Patriots (SadLisa/mollydog12/who the f**k knows) responding to my comment calling out their spammy blog last week:
"I always read with amusement Leftie complaints about anyone gaming Digg. As I said before, they love to play as long as they're rigging the game. [...] Digg is a vast and diverse community. If a view point has merit it will be heard. Rather than constantly obsess about paranoid conspiracies the lefties might do better to question if their message has resonance."
You really should read the rest of the comments in that thread (most of whom I now see are DP members), it's quite the display of doublethink:
This is how the Republican Party has been operating for a while now, since there are less registered Republicans they constantly feel compelled to manipulate polls and media in order to make it appear that the majority support them. Instead of fine tuning their party in order to appeal to more Americans, they spend their time manipulating Americans so that they think the party represents things it does not.
The majority do not support them; but not everyone gets off their butt's to vote. It's beyond pathetic that people devote their lives to shutting down the ideas of others (as unAmerican as you can get) simply because they have no good ideas and it's the only way they can win.
All I can say is unless you want this kind of Orwellian leadership (saying you stand for freedom and liberty and going so far as to co-opting American flag), VOTE this fall.
Two simple words for all those involved: f**k YOU
"I’ll continue to bury their submissions until they change their ways and become conservatives" The fact that you think that bury news stories to "change my way" is just so arrogant and is exactly why my political views oppose you.
Many diggers have been complaining for a long time to Digg about this, yet Digg only banned individuals, even though proof was sent to them time and again of groups violating the TOS.
How about it DIgg? Will you do the right thing?
Do these tards not have jobs? Or does the GOP pay them to censor freedom of speech? The right in this country is just disguting. Duplicitous, evil, bigoted @ssholes.
stonecircleAug 5, 2010Buried
Threatened by truth? How sad. If the only way you can get your own message out is by silencing others, you have a real problem. I see I was one of their targets. What cowards.
vegetablelambAug 5, 2010Buried
Sweet Jesus could these folks be more pathetic? What a bunch of sad losers.
alecbAug 5, 2010Buried
These people should be permanently banned from Digg.
vegetablelambAug 5, 2010Buried
...and it goes to show, once again, that people who make it a point to call themselves 'patriots' are usually nothing of the sort
upnorthgirlAug 5, 2010Buried
FTA: The primary function of the Digg Patriots is to censor politically progressive content from the upcoming Political, Political Opinion, World News, and Business sections, so that conservative stories have a better chance to get more traction. To do this, they constantly monitor these sections, progressive submitters, and news websites.
Whether I agree with Bjornski, Anamaly100, PhilPerspective, Novenator, JanineWallace, UncaJoe, & a couple others I can’t think of right now, I bury `em anyway. *ACTUALLY* each of them has been “dead-on, balls-accurate” (an industry term) at least once in the past week or so, and it sort-of pains me to be dishonest by burying them anyway, but then I remember . . . I’m not up for re-election!
-BentheDog
Way to go on uncovering this and naming those involved
sarahleeAug 5, 2010Buried
Ha! We knew this was happening. Good to have some proof.
Jordan117Aug 5, 2010Buried
I knew it. I f**king knew it. I knew it over a year ago when they were gaming Digg from their #DiggCons Twitter page:
http://digg.com/political_opinion/DiggCons_The_HQ_for_conservatives_spamming_Digg
They spiked that story (despite it getting nearly 300 authentic diggs -- I only had a handful of Digg friends) and then vanished into the woodwork. I thought they'd given up, but they obviously just holed up even deeper. And they've denied it endlessly and called people who complained about the daily right-wing circle-jerks paranoid. f**king assh**es. Every last one of them should be banned.
xirfanAug 5, 2010Buried
comments on this article should include relevant ascii art. thank you.
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stonecircleAug 5, 2010Buried
They're probably wringing their hands, trying to refrain from burying this post!
vegetablelambAug 5, 2010Buried
sent this message to Digg Support:
I don't know how substantiated the claims in this article may be, but I'd imagine those involved have clearly violated the Terms of Use. http://blogs.alternet.org/oleoleolson/2010/08/05/massive-censorship-of-digg-uncovered/
received back:
Hello from Digg.com.
The issue is being investigated. We appreciate your concern, and thank you for taking the time to contact Digg.
If there are any other issues, please don't hesitate to contact us.
-The Digg Support Team.
I would encourage others to contact Digg support about this as well.
Jordan117Aug 5, 2010Buried
One of the Digg Patriots (SadLisa/mollydog12/who the f**k knows) responding to my comment calling out their spammy blog last week:
"I always read with amusement Leftie complaints about anyone gaming Digg. As I said before, they love to play as long as they're rigging the game. [...] Digg is a vast and diverse community. If a view point has merit it will be heard. Rather than constantly obsess about paranoid conspiracies the lefties might do better to question if their message has resonance."
You really should read the rest of the comments in that thread (most of whom I now see are DP members), it's quite the display of doublethink:
http://digg.com/political_opinion/The_Rattington_Post_Bloggers_dodged_a_bullet_with_DISCLOSE?t=34059261#c34059261
hdrkidAug 5, 2010Buried
I hate bury brigades and people who are afraid of new ideas so they want to ban em. It seems we lose more liberty every year.
novenatorAug 5, 2010Buried
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DiggPatriots/
The Digg Patriots cheating Group has officially been scrubbed. I wonder where they will run and hide at now?
freedomjoeAug 5, 2010Buried
This is how the Republican Party has been operating for a while now, since there are less registered Republicans they constantly feel compelled to manipulate polls and media in order to make it appear that the majority support them. Instead of fine tuning their party in order to appeal to more Americans, they spend their time manipulating Americans so that they think the party represents things it does not.
The majority do not support them; but not everyone gets off their butt's to vote. It's beyond pathetic that people devote their lives to shutting down the ideas of others (as unAmerican as you can get) simply because they have no good ideas and it's the only way they can win.
All I can say is unless you want this kind of Orwellian leadership (saying you stand for freedom and liberty and going so far as to co-opting American flag), VOTE this fall.
xiiiganonAug 5, 2010Buried
Two simple words for all those involved: f**k YOU
"I’ll continue to bury their submissions until they change their ways and become conservatives" The fact that you think that bury news stories to "change my way" is just so arrogant and is exactly why my political views oppose you.
neognosticAug 5, 2010Buried
Many diggers have been complaining for a long time to Digg about this, yet Digg only banned individuals, even though proof was sent to them time and again of groups violating the TOS.
How about it DIgg? Will you do the right thing?
hediggmeAug 5, 2010Buried
Not surprised. I had noticed since last year, just didn't know where it was coming from.
djshayAug 5, 2010Buried
Do these tards not have jobs? Or does the GOP pay them to censor freedom of speech? The right in this country is just disguting. Duplicitous, evil, bigoted @ssholes.
bearkillAug 5, 2010Buried
I am Jack's complete lack of surprise.