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DeTweet or DownTweet: How?

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 The ReTweet is, in terms of a growing number of indexing sites like Topsy, the equivalent of an upmod vote or endorsement of the post as has been practiced by Digg or Reddit: basically, if one prepends "RT" to the prior poster’s username, the content of the repost and the associated shortened URL to the external site, Topsy interprets the RT as an endorsement of the reposted content and the full URL. 

So the "DeTweet" was introduced as a concept by various posters as being the opposite of the ReTweet last year, one that has not yet been credibly created or fleshed out for mass consumption or indexer use. Basically, instead of "RT" next to an associated post, a DT would be prepended in order to indicate dislike.

But what does that mean? Continue reading DeTweet or DownTweet: How? →

Burying vs. Wu wei

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Went to the doctor yesterday, going to get an MRI soon. Hope for the best.

Anyway, there has long (over two years, actually) been an active and heated discussion about Digg’s bury brigade, which is seen more as a demonym for a large and disparate group of Digg users who are united only by their fondness for organized "burying" (downmodding) of recently-posted URLs based on their different agendas or impulses.

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What is up with Digg’s user demographic today?

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I’m not even linking to the post or the video (oh, who cares anyway…), but there’s a post on Digg (still receiving comments, over 500 of them, of either an alarmist or contrarian nature as of 10:46 PM EST) that links to a video on Ning that manages to combine the following features:

  • net neutrality
  • the Mayan 2012 hypothesis
  • how the Internet will be crushed by the ISPs in 2012
  • boobs

Just…..WTF?

I mean, this isn’t the first time that a post to Digg has managed to inflame the prepubescent passions of Digg’s mostly-middle-class-teenage-libertarian user population, but damn….an alledgedly-poorly-made conspiracy video with boobs (I haven’t watched it; the comments to the post already turned me off to it) managed to get this much attention?

Now you have the net neutrality fans using the post to call for regulation, the 13375 “leets” calling for a revolutionary alliance of “Anonymous” forming a sub-internet that will be free of the greedy corporate and government monsters, the tinfoil-hats pushing for the furtherance of doomsday (12-21-2012), and others who are calling BS on the video.

I only want to know how it gained so much attention in the first place? Or are the public schools out in other parts of the world already (just like it is here in Houston County)?

EDIT: This is also an example of why the new comment system on that website is debilitating to the viewing of recently-posted comments: since it is filled with at least 754 threads (containing 1,435 Comments), having to click to “show 51-100 of 754 discussions” at least 14 times on that page is rather heavy on the JavaScript, leading to several alerts of “a script on this page is running slowly. Do you want to continue or abort the script?”

The only reason why I am interested in seeing the (actual) end of the page is to see the heated reactions to the “Inaccurate” tag placed on the post.