Ok, so maybe not front page material, but I just wanted to highlight two submissions with a message to Digg staff about the bannings - in a rather comical way.
cgt… uhm… NoNipples submitted two photos in response to all the new bannings. They basically poke fun at his own banning while symbolically protesting the newest string of bannings from Digg.
I’m not going to put an image on this post… cause the only relevant one I can think of is with boobies
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No nipples here
So I shouldn’t get banned for it this time, right??????
I wonder if Kevin looked at these going “Hmm… this account looks familiar and so does this wedding photo”
I found this particularly hilarious, especially considering I loathe my own neighbors. I can’t possibly tell you how many times I’ve had the urge to go upstairs with a shotgun - the noise… it’s just too much, and I know they do it on purpose sometimes.
We all have those neighbors, and we all have those thoughts - admit it! The letter they wrote to theirs has a serious, “respectful” tone, which is what makes it funny.
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Things aren’t good in the neighborhood. Invite to a block party–& here’s the Letter Reply which goes far beyond the usual “can’t make it, thanks.” Fed up, angry & pretty funny. Sounds like a Thanksgiving get together isn’t likely….
This is an open call for writers. We need you. The original concept of highlighting stories that should have been on the front page of social media sites but that didn’t quite make it is starting to lose steam. We will continue to do it, of course, but we want more.
Lots more.
We want this site to spark the interests of the readers out there who want more from a blog. There is a distinct need to expand on our successes and bring this blog to the next level.
It has done well so far. It achieved a PageRank of 4 in a relatively short time without unnatural link-building. The traffic has been wonderful and we have seen 3 of our posts hit the front page of Digg, including one story that had over 3000 Diggs. Our subscribers are moving up nicely and consistently, but still… Read more…
In an attempt to destroy a hornet’s nest, a Japanese monk was attacked and dropped the torch he was using to rid his temple. Flames consumed the temple and the nest.
The Buddhist monk had put lighted rags on a stick into the nest in the temple, but dropped it and ran when the hornets flew out and attacked him, Niigata prefectural (state) police official Yuichi Ozaka said. The fire occurred Wednesday.
Original Description:
A Japanese monk trying to rid his temple of a hornet’s nest panicked when the hornets attacked him and dropped a torch, burning his temple to the ground.
While Popular Mechanics often gets too much social media love, this is one that probably deserved a front page more than some of the other submissions from theis (awesome) website. The only complaint - you have to click through all of the thumbnails to see them. Oh well - nobody’s perfect.
Click to the story to see all of the pics. The one below is my personal fave.
Okay, so this isn’t exactly the traditional front page story, but it’s one that is pretty darn unique. Unique enough, in fact, that I think that 389 Diggs should have been enough to push it over the top.
Quite the choice of text from the article for the title and description by the submitter. Also, quite the feat.
Joseph Pujol, the fartiste, became the world’s first flatulence “musician.” The article describes a little of how he discovered this ability and his on stage performance.
Competition can cause many negative situations. This is one of those cases where a little competition is having an impact. It’s the kind of impact that, if done on a mass scale, can have tremendous results.
Check out Energy Smackdown. It pits families against one another in good-natured competition in hopes of increasing awareness and reducing each family member’s carbon footprint. Last year three families from Medford squared off against each other in the contest, which is taped and shown on local cable. This year BrainShift expanded the contest to Arlington, Cambridge, and Medford, where 10 families from each community will compete.
It’s a perfect example of how submitters often matter the most to social media sites. Here is an interesting story about a new politically charged piece of artwork on display at an amusement park, Coney Island in New York. With waterboarding being a topic that has received a lot of social media attention over the last several months, this different perspective on the issue taken from an unusual angle would have been a “no-brainer” to hit the front page if the right submitters posted it.
On Reddit, it was an active submitter, and it was very successful. On other sites, not so much.
Social media failed, not because the submitters did anything wrong, but because the systems are not ready to accept quality submissions from people who aren’t “in”. Sad.
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A man with a black hood pours water on the face of a prisoner in an orange jumpsuit strapped to a table: no, it’s not Guantanamo Bay naval base, but New York’s Coney Island amusement park.
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submitted two photos in response to all the new bannings. They basically poke fun at his own banning while symbolically protesting the newest string of bannings from Digg.
Quite the choice of text from the article for the title and description by the submitter. Also, quite the feat.
