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1. Hahahaha. I started watching this when a coworker sent it to me on Friday but bookmarked it to come back to later, and forgot until just now. Absolutely hilarious. No idea why this didn’t hit digg. If I had remembered I’d have posted it to popfail myself. =]

   942 diggs on this version. never went popular.
   http://digg.com/linux_unix/The_Website_Is_Down

   #1 Urgo

2. Haha, I didn’t find that post. If you look at the commentary, you can tell that the 1,000+ diggs are actually over the course of several days. Still, it should have been promoted. Digg admins must have something against it.

   Funny you should mention that, a co-worker sent it to me as well.

   #2 gbarberi

3. I don’t think Digg has anything against it. It looks like it was paid/multi/spam diggs. If you check out who dugg it, the vast majority are inactive users. If I check a story with 100 legit diggs, I’ll have 30-80 of those diggs from people on my friend’s list even if I didn’t submit it.

   This one has so few people that I know digging it, it has to be spam diggs.

   #3 JD Rucker

4. Oh yeh, should note. This finally did go popular - twice! Sam day, too.

   #4 gbarberi