Aftermath

I have to say I am incredibly disappointed with the direction or lack there of that the this the user revolt has taken. Kevin Rose posted this,

"But now, after seeing hundreds of stories and reading thousands of comments, you ’ve made it clear. You’d rather see Digg go down fighting than bow down to a bigger company. We hear you, and effective immediately we won’t delete stories or comments containing the code and will deal with whatever the consequences might be."

Everyone dugg it, then Kevin himself posted the numbers, and now all I see is a bunch of whiny ass people babbling out shit like this,

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I truly cannot believe how many people decided they were going to stand up (while sitting down mind you) for a cause that 50% of them were not going to actively participate in anyway. If "protesting" or "sticking it to the man" as they call it, is in fact possible by simply clicking your mouse a few hundred times then I for one welcome our new carpal-tunnel ridden overlords.

IF we're all done acting like 5 year olds, I'm sure someone's got a great picture of a cute kitten in a computer to submit.

That's REAL Digg frontpage news... :)

For the love of all things holy. It was obvious that diggers DID recognize the importance of the issue at hand, but less than 24hrs later comments like the one above are getting Dugg hand over foot. I just don't get it? And for the record, let be clear on one thing, "protesting" and "sticking it to the man" can ABSOLUTELY, with out a doubt be accomplished with a few hundred clicks. A few million people clicking something a few hundred times.....hmmm that sound like a political bot net of sorts. Why wait for someone to create a bot net that actually stands behind a real cause or idea, not just extortion and greed, when we could do it with out all the zombie boxes? (Although I must say, Zombie box's are cool with me as long and they are not spamming and extorting).

Then there is this comment in direct response to Kevin's story, which it would seem by the number of Digg's clearly represents the overall attitude of the digg community.

"Well said. Can we move on now?"

This to me is what is really sad. Maybe the guy was right in the first comment above? Most of the people who were out there digging like mad last night were just a bunch of coffee shop revolutionaries, attention spans no longer than a few hours who have already moved on to the newest IPhone pictures , but I refuse to adopt that attitude (even though it may very well be true) simply because I am stubborn and I have faith in both political and conscious movement.
Really, if you sit back and look at it for a few minutes, what happened on Digg on May, 1st 2007 has some pretty interesting implications in the grand scheme of things. I encourage those of you who have yet to see it to take a closer look.