Comments on: Kevin Rose: Digg’s Biggest Hypocrite

By: jimmy

jimmy — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 22:25:20 +0000

It’s true, Kevin is a pretty big hypocrite at times and not only for these types of reasons.

He also doesn’t give a shit about the users.

By: A whine about Digg | Rainysundays.net

A whine about Digg | Rainysundays.net — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 04:56:05 +0000

[...] This smarmy looking tool (pictured above) is Kevin Rose the guy who created digg. I’m going to have a whine today about the website he “created” (paid web developers to make based on copied ideas). But firstly why do I have a problem with Kevin? Well you can read about it here. [...]

By: Phillip P

Phillip P — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 04:19:43 +0000

Very interesting.

By: TheWayoftheWeb » Is Digg’s day done?

TheWayoftheWeb » Is Digg’s day done? — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 12:34:04 +0000

[...] Weinberg has done some great posts highlighting the times Mr Rose has seemingly escaped the Digg Banhammer team despite breaking his own rules. Or see someone who submitted 1800 times, and made 4 mistakes get [...]

By: Nick Stamoulis

Nick Stamoulis — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 13:20:53 +0000

This is a great post Tamar, even though it is over 6 months old…still a very useful resource. Thanks again!

By: Open Social Media « chimney

Open Social Media « chimney — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 10:42:45 +0000

[...] Another case in point is that of a 17-year-old who got banned because he tried to get diggers to join a Facebook group for diggers. Of course, later, Kevin Rose [...]

By: Tamar Weinberg

Tamar Weinberg — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 00:12:55 +0000

I think you need to look at when this was written, Colin.

By: Colin

Colin — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 00:10:26 +0000

Aww poor Kevin. I honestly think you guys are being harsh.

By: Joe M.

Joe M. — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 22:08:33 +0000

Tamar,

The post is on point but I must say few words. Its true Digg turned into a money making machine for it�s founder and Kevin is cutting corners for its own good. I think we need to shout it loud and clear when they band their own guidelines, but lets not forget that if we deal in SMO and, or SEO its using Digg, in Kevin�s eyes, it�s us against him ( or reddit, stumble upon…)and that’s the kind of strikes we are facing. When we create a mega account on Digg we�re under Ross�s eyes. I can’t understand why Erick was using his personal mega account for his experiment (I don�t know Erick, but even if he wasn’t using his account for SMO he should have been more cheerful.)

Anyone experienced enough in SEO would never be surprised from this story. In Google, a hand removal is a normal think and an expected loss. I’m sure you are familiar with a dating site which was promoted by some TOP SMO experts (sound familiar?) and got bent from Google about 72 hours ago ( check the term � online dating???). Was that a hand removal? We don’t know for sure, but I can show you some cases which the removal was manual and not allegoristic as Google promise.

In conclusion, I see it happening more and more in the future and the work of SM optimizers will have to mutate.

In regard to the last post by Kevin about the improvement of his algorithm to prevent SMO on Digg LET ME JUST SAY
No worries Mr. Ross, we beat Google�s algorithm, who the fuck are you.

Ps. if my English wasn�t all understood please accept my apology, my Hebrew is much better.

By: fadern

fadern — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 13:10:02 +0000

Thanks