Guy Blocks Digg Due to Hate Comments

January 4th, 2007 • Related • Filed Under

Kevin Burton of Tailrank spotted an interesting ‘Digg’ story a few days ago. Some poor guy made it onto Digg, but didn’t like the comments that were being left, so he blocked Digg and put up a nice error page in it’s place:

403 Go Away!

The server understood the request, but is refusing to fulfill it because you’re coming from digg.com and the proprieter of this system is frankly terrified by you people. Authorization will not help and the request SHOULD NOT be repeated.

Quality! I just spotted another similar story.

I agree partially with one of the comments left on Feedblog:

I can totally see the guys point. If you ever scan the Digg comments, you’ll seriously start to worry about the future of humanity. They make Slashdot comment threads look like flame wars between Dickens and Conrad, comparatively.

It’s the same ‘lowest common denominator’ audience that YouTube and MySpace are suceeding so well with. Sure, looks great if you’re a businessperson. Not so great if you suddenly get slammed with offensive, inappropriate comments in mangled English.

I have to agree that the comments on digg are normally quite poor, but in-between the dross there do tend to be a few good ones.

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  1. #1

    Comment by Dave Starr on 16 January 2007:

    Frankly I’d like to see someone post a step by step on how to block Digg and not screw anything else up on my blogs. Digg has been reported by many much smarter than I for their phony popularity contests and inner circle favoritism. They also ban people who question these practises … they banned me for complaining.

    I know that many are in this for the money game and feel they have no choice but to play along with Digg’s “awesome power” but for myself … Digg can take a long walk off a short pier.

  2. #2

    Comment by Everton on 16 January 2007:

    If you run your own server you could ask you could probably put a rule in your .htacesss file to block or redirect requests from Digg’s IP address or url.

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