Looking at some more of our stats shows that StumbleUpon is also a really big source of people. Each week we normally receive a few thousand people from there. Who would have thought that such a random idea could bring such a good amount of traffic.

I only wish they would provide options to add more feeds to their site, because I like the way it looks and works.

Thanks for mentioning my name in the thanks note (and I shall be looking forward to my check)

Thank you Ryan and your team. Keep going as you are.

Keep up with the flashy and keep the user base

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reinvent yourself so that you find a steady user basse that will continuously come for content.

The only problem with user generated content is the type of users it attracts. Either way they moderate it, they would lose. So that’s why there’s alternatives, like digg to reddit and MySpace to Facebook.

I don’t Digg, and probably never will. I only heard about digg when I saw those funny icons on the pages.

Take for example TechCrunch, their quality in my opinion, as dropped significantly, and is still a blog, that is religiously submitted to Digg. Their blog seems more like paid advertisements in blog posts, as if he were being paid (maybe they are…idk) to post all these new and upcoming web 2.0 sites that will all never make it because they don’t have a pre-established base and don’t innovate enough to compete.

The TechCrunch BLOG seems a little too much like an infomercial to me. I like maybe 1 or 2 stories in ever 100 they post, at best. And each time, I’ve already read and seen the content from other sources. And he just ends up scamming the story from another blog or website, without sourcing them and giving them credit for the content.

Beyond them, there are tons of other blogs that hit Digg, that are good and bad, that aren’t prevented from submission by Digger’s unmerited complaints. ThinkProgress is a blog, CrooksAndLiers is a blog, both of which have good content, no better or worse in general than this website, just different topic. Yet these websites don’t get blocked by Digg users.

Note: These actions aren’t representative of the Digg team, but rather the opinions and resulting actions of of the Digg community.

Diggers are more and more abusing their power on the site, only to deteriorate the quality of content. It is unavoidable that you’ll get the bad apples on the Internet, when you leave the good niche website community that Digg once was, becoming popular with the masses.

Anytime a social website becomes this open and this popular, what I like to refer to as the “Myspace Kids of the Internet,” will hit your website, those are what I consider in general the bad apples online. The people who only go on the Internet to f*** around, and piss people off, etc….only for their own stupid entertainment.

I mean even by definition Digg.com is a blog really. I find that blogs, if you view the good/right ones, are more accurate, and report better stories, than conventional mass media markets, that have hit the Internet from other such mediums as TV and newspapers. So I can’t find justification for people’s “disgust” with blogs. The people who flame about them in my opinion are nothing but ignorant, arrogant hypocrites often times.

Either way, this website will definitely maintain it’s popularity, and grow without Digg. Keep on posting your good stories Ryan!