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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