More on Digg’s political bias
An individual who is involved in the back end of politics.wikia sent me an e-mail this morning that includes the following paragraph. Note that he is not interested in giving his opinion on any political issues, but found it interesting that statistics were supporting my assertion that Digg is biased.
http://digg.com/tech_news/Is_Digg_Biased_Against_Conservatives was
made popular with 30 diggs. But then it was buried immediately after
– literally within a minute or two (we were watching). Given your
thesis, the irony is incredible!
Incredible indeed, but not surprising. I recently wrote about my personal experiences with Digg and its flaw that allows a large group of users to actively bury stories with little or no merit, and it ended up getting quite a bit of attention.
My assertion is that there is a group of Left Wing Diggers who troll the upcoming stories in search of stories with which they disagree with, or have been asked by friends to bury. Digg has a flaw that allows stories to be Dugg or buried without ever actually visiting the story. This means that users are burying stories that they haven’t even read, which I would view as cheating the system.
Many, MANY complaints have been sent to Digg, with little or no response in return. It’s obvious that Digg is aware of the secret army of Digg trolls, yet it does not view this practice as an issue important enough to deal with.
Having this in mind, I’m left with little choice but to conclude that Digg indeed is biased towards Conservatives. Now if only they could admit such a thing.
I digress.
-Eric Odom
Popularity: 13% [?]
