Nubuntu rumors and who is really gaming Digg

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Nubuntu rumors and who is really gaming Digg

by Ryan Carter Sep 13th 2006

A story on Digg recently claims that Nubuntu (network Ubuntu) is closing it's doors. It doesn't seem to be true from the look of the Nubuntu homepage. The fluxbox wallpaper design contest has been closed, but that hardly constitutes all development efforts closing down. Digg users have marked the story as possibly inaccurate, which is good because it does seem to be inaccurate. Nubuntu is still around as far as I can tell, which leads me to this whole gaming Digg idea. Lately people have been accusing certain groups of users for "gaming" Digg, saying that the "gamers" are putting all their own stories up to the front page (or trying to) by having everyone in a group digg stories to make them jump to the top of the site. I don't know what Digg can do about this, and frankly I think this is less of a problem than most people seem to think. What difference do 30-40 users make in the grand scheme of hundreds of Diggs on any one story? I dare say that people who submit Digg (or Netscape for that matter) stories when they are false or inaccurate are the real folks gaming Digg. It is the people who start crap stories that really kill Digg. In my blogger's opinion, I get sick of reading Digg only to find half the stories are inaccurate or plain not true at all. By the time everyone finds out these stories are a bunch of hooey, several hundred people Digg it and these little baby memes get spewed all over the blogosphere (someone get a sponge and hot soapy water), and for no reason. It is no better than the people who start email forwards to see how many suckers they can get to sign their name and send it on. What? Oh, I guess my time on the soapbox is up, who's next?

[Via Digg]

Tags: Nubuntu, ubuntu

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