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Ionut Alex. Chitu [PersonRank 10]

Tuesday, August 15, 2006
17 years ago3,805 views

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Ionut Alex. Chitu [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

The story: http://digg.com/tech_news/Digg_Adds_Video_Thumbnails
And it's a dupe.

Ionut Alex. Chitu [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

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TOMHTML [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

I don't understand the phrase "and it's a dupe"...

And actually I have seen some digg news with a thumbnail
http://digg.com/view/videos

Ionut Alex. Chitu [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

kevinrose
crap, it is a dupe...my fault – how the hell did this get submitted so fast.

Ionut Alex. Chitu [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

when I said "Digg bot" I meant he got all the Diggs very fast (look at the time in the shots).

/pd [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

its 11 minutes between screen scraps. This accounts for approx 24 more diggs...within 6 min. given the fact that 28 were there in the 5 min, then it could be that he got dugg so fast.

but your [ hawk] eyes got the "google" word included in the second scrap. How did this happen ?? I thought that once submissions were done, one cannot go and edit their entry.. or am I wrong ??

Ramibotros [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

u think digg doesn't edit stories once submitted? http://diggabused.googlepages.com/ .. basically it prooves they edited a story of mine .. and i could never submit that one to digg..
digg is the worst dictatorship ever :D
25 diggs in 5 mins then 24 in 6 .. that i could believe was done without bots, considering the amount of "friends" he has, who get rss alerts the moment he sumbits something. i love digg and hate kevin rose.

Philipp Lenssen [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

The original submitted only submitted the blog URL, not the permalink, so I think Kevin didn't do anything wrong... of course, if someone else would've submitted this he might not have ended up on the frontpage :)

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