Comments on: 2800 Digg Users Are Wrong About Gmail Opening The Doors

By: Gmail Open to all?

Gmail Open to all? — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 19:01:58 +0000

[...] had opened up universally. Once such incident occurred back in December when 2800+ Diggers dugg an article which said that Google had opened the registration to everyone. In fact, it was only released in [...]

By: Smiff

Smiff — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 11:54:08 +0000

digg is horribly flawed. i’ve decided to stop using it these last few days because of just this type of thing - how many other stories (in areas I don’t know about) are wrong?! the majority of diggs are literally coming from people who think the headline is interesting but haven’t even read the story, even enough to see the people pointing out it’s wrong. absolutely hopeless, makes the Sun newspaper look reliable, or something. back to slashdot or something with slightly less of a sheep problem. even Fark looks sane next to digg (bizarre!).

By: nick botulism

nick botulism — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 09:09:26 +0000

shirizaki wrote:

Digg = Myspace of News sites.

haha! excellent.

By: Bharath Kumar

Bharath Kumar — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 07:35:09 +0000

Ryan: Its already open in Australia long back.

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» Links for 07-12-2006 » Velcro City Tourist Board » Blog Archive — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 02:16:30 +0000

[...] 15 - 2800 Digg Users Are Wrong About Gmail Opening The Doors “Yesterday a story made the frontpage of Digg […] As of right now the story has 2860 Diggs but the original submitter has also posted a retraction on Digg.” It’s all about the fact-checking, people. (tags: networks social cascade information fact-checking research crowds wisdom crowdsourcing voting news propagation rumour false Digg) [...]

By: Ryan

Ryan — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 21:27:45 +0000

curtissthompson wrote:

actually very few realize this…but when it was originally submitted…it actually was a registration page w/o the need of a cell phone…the link was changed quickly. if i still had the page up and running i’d copy the site and take a screenshot of it for you all…but my ISP has been on the frits lately…cutting off my internet access every 10-30 minutes…requiring me to reset my modem and my entire network to get it all up and running again for no longer than another half an hour.

but it actually was a normal registration page, and not the cell phone one….i suppose it was either a mistake by google, or something to that end..as it has been changed.

apparently this was only intended for certain countries…but the link was valid…and diggers weren’t digging it blindly to the homepage…the page was merely changed while it was being dugg…so certainly many dugg it w/o clicking the link…but for quite a while..even when on the homepage the page was a legit registration page, and no via cell phone.

Huh, that’s weird. I tried it when it was at less than 100 Diggs and still didn’t get it to work. Guess Google must have switched it pretty quick then.

By: curtissthompson

curtissthompson — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 21:10:28 +0000

actually very few realize this…but when it was originally submitted…it actually was a registration page w/o the need of a cell phone…the link was changed quickly. if i still had the page up and running i’d copy the site and take a screenshot of it for you all…but my ISP has been on the frits lately…cutting off my internet access every 10-30 minutes…requiring me to reset my modem and my entire network to get it all up and running again for no longer than another half an hour.

but it actually was a normal registration page, and not the cell phone one….i suppose it was either a mistake by google, or something to that end..as it has been changed.

apparently this was only intended for certain countries…but the link was valid…and diggers weren’t digging it blindly to the homepage…the page was merely changed while it was being dugg…so certainly many dugg it w/o clicking the link…but for quite a while..even when on the homepage the page was a legit registration page, and no via cell phone.

By: SLA

SLA — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 19:15:28 +0000

I saw this screen yesterday too! I never had Gmail account, and yesterday was trying to create it, but changed my mind, and created webmail inbox elsewhere.
P.S. I don’t like Google a little, because it is something like Big Brother.

By: CoryC

CoryC — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 18:28:49 +0000

That why I just say “no” to Digg. I tried to like the site, I really did. But there are simple to many stories about Digg.

By: Defeatable

Defeatable — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 17:14:40 +0000

Haha, looks like the jokes on Digg users!

By: Daniel

Daniel — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 16:46:56 +0000

Sorry I meant SHOULD NOT

By: Daniel

Daniel — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 16:45:37 +0000

unless you’re new to digg this really should come as a surprise.

By: shirizaki

shirizaki — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 16:34:33 +0000

Digg = Myspace of News sites.

By: xpgeek

xpgeek — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 16:30:13 +0000

That happens a lot on Digg lately. Someone pointed out to me a Digg story to a YouTube video last month, the story had 800 Diggs, but the YouTube video only had 200 actual views. Boggles the mind.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 16:25:04 +0000

When I first saw it I was about to Digg it as well because we all know that it is overdue for Google to open Gmail. I originally thought it was just me that couldn’t get it work but then saw other people saying the same thing. For some reason, however, the guy that commented saying that this must not work in the U.S. has been buried and currently stands at -22. That made me think that it was working for people in the U.S.

By: Nate The Great

Nate The Great — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 15:49:44 +0000

Ah I feel bad now I dugg this story yesterday without checking*

*I did read some comments which said it was open though.