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Main Stream publishers on Digg are stealing their own content
Brandon Davenport
Currently on Digg, the “Top News” section is packed full of news from Engadget, Gizmodo, Ars Technica and Mashable which is all submitted by themselves. So here’s the kicker — Ars Technica is using Digg’s fancy new auto-RSS importer that spams Digg with it’s posts, which inevitably all make it to the homepage, thanks to its thousands of “followers”, and then becomes the post of the day.
Now, your probably already pissed off about this, but it gets much worse. It turns out Ars Technica unwillingly stole their own Digg story submission.
The original submission by an Ars Technica fan
Here’s the funny part… some guy called Paul Maior originally dugg this before Ars Technica! (this duplicate post was Ars’s [link] ) — So essentially, Ars Technica posted duplicate content, and stole their own story from one of their fans. This isn’t Ars’s fault by all means, this is a major flaw in Digg — and you guessed it… it gets way worse, yet again!
Digg no longer checks for duplicate titles
That’s right. They add a “_2” at the end because they don’t really seem to care whether big blogs unknowingly take a giant sh*t in the face of their fans. This is dis-respectful to content creators and users alike, and if Digg is ever going to get their diggnity back, they need to do it fast because the patience of their users are growing thin. This is no place for people to submit news — it’s a place for news to submit people.
We’re second guessing our decision joining the new Digg. We don’t want to be a part of this, and unknowingly steal our reader’s cool findings. That would make us feel horrible!
