Digg and Reddit users have higher moral and ethics than Shoutwire?
Monday, September 03, 2007 by Jason
After I have found out about Google Flight simulator, I have noticed that Marco submitted his story to four community based sites : Digg, Reddit, Shoutwire and Slashdot, at the same time. As Slashdot is editorial based, I won’t discuss about that here.
Here are the screenshots for the other three.
Oh My GOD! 352 views and only 2 shouts? Come on, this article definitely deserve to be shouted. It is impossible that all those 352 people have already known about this easter egg before Marco.
When you compared with Digg and reddit, all the community users gave Marco the diggs and points he deserved.
Why all these Shoutwire users are so mean? Maybe they can't shout anymore as their voice are running out? Come on shoutwire, you can be a lot better than this. I don't mean to offend anyone, just sharing my thought.
Here are the screenshots for the other three.
Oh My GOD! 352 views and only 2 shouts? Come on, this article definitely deserve to be shouted. It is impossible that all those 352 people have already known about this easter egg before Marco.
When you compared with Digg and reddit, all the community users gave Marco the diggs and points he deserved.
Why all these Shoutwire users are so mean? Maybe they can't shout anymore as their voice are running out? Come on shoutwire, you can be a lot better than this. I don't mean to offend anyone, just sharing my thought.
Considering over 90% of the stories on the Digg front page required user fraud to get there, I'm gonna say no.
Small correction: I wasn't the one to submit to shoutwire. I don't really know much about it anyway - someone else posted the link to the submission to my blog.
The low ratio of shouts:views is kind of understandable. I have traffic data to back that up. When things calm down I'm keen to post an analysis as I'm very curious when it comes to statistics like this.
As for the comment about user fraud, let it be known that while others might have done so, I personally did no such thing.
okay, even though you didn't submit to shoutwire, there is not much different time as both digg and shoutwire are showing submitted 2 days ago.
I'm eagerly waiting for you traffic report.
Oh! by the way, you are very lucky and genius to find out this easter egg.
ShoutWire is just a different place from Reddit and Digg. Don't take it so personally you didn't get shouted.
I have one question... did you shout it?
If the answer is no then you have no reason to complain.
alright, i'm not complaining. most of my submission got front page. but i'm just wondering why shoutwire users view only and no shout.
Btw, i did shout.
So what? I didn't shout a story about a flight simulator. What's the big deal? Who cares? Certainly Not Mature Adults or even savvy young gamers.
But... until now I didn't bother to view it either - I was just curious to see what all the fuss was about.
Yawn....
ShoutWire users don't view that much, that one article is a statistical anomaly. Just look at the views on some other articles in the same section.
People shout if they feel like it. Why do you care if people shout or not.
Shoutwire users don't just view...
Btw, don't be a [censor].
@rcg
that is not just a flight simulator, it is hidden from Google earth. Google hidden it to be found by someone. Marco deserve some credits, don't u think?
@Uroboros
Yeah, i'm also wondering about that too.
@thePwinator
I don't care much either, but if we don't shout the good story, SW frontpage will be missing the real story.
ever heard of digg's bury brigade?
i didn't shout it because it's an uninteresting story
a hidden flight simulator isn't very interesting. Instead of the DRAMA!! packing heading to the story maybe you could change it to, "Shoutwire readers less easily impressed than other news sites"
OH I'M SORRY FOR NOT GIVING A SHIT, I'M GOING TO SHOUT IT RIGHT NOW. OH WAIT, I DON'T CARE.