[Air-l] Digg user 'riot' going on now

[Andrew Lih]

At the risk of shameless self-promotion, here's a view of how it
affected the Big Three usergen sites -- Digg, Slashdot, Wikipedia:

http://www.andrewlih.com/blog/2007/05/02/what-does-cyber-revolt-look-like/

-Andrew


On 5/2/07, Jose P. Zagal <jp at cc.gatech.edu> wrote:
> The Digg admins have since changed their position on the issue.
> See the latest entry on the Digg blog: http://blog.digg.com/?p=74
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> Jose
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> Ellie Wix wrote:
> > I found this story on gizmodo.com this morning and thought I might share for
> > anyone who might be interested.
> >
> > Apparently someone found an HD-DVD key code that would allow users to bypass
> > copy protection.  This was posted onto Digg but was then removed for obvious
> > reasons.  Out of anger the users are now (is diggbombing a word?) flooding
> > the site with the code in retaliation to it being removed.  Even now I'm
> > looking at a few of my friends who have the code as their away messages.
> >
> > http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/geeks-will-not-be-silenced/breaking-digg-riot-in-full-effect-over-pulled-hd+dvd-key-story-256982.php
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> > And thanks to the entire list.  I posted a question and req for lit a few
> > months back and it helped tremendously, even changed the course of my
> > project.
> >
> > -Ellie
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> --
> José Pablo Zagal
> PhD Candidate - Georgia Institute of Technology
> jp at cc.gatech.edu  - http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~jp
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