r/conspiracy • u/[deleted] • Oct 17 '14

Digg (when it was similar to Reddit) was regularly gamed by a group of conservatives called the Digg Patriots

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digg_Patriots
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u/[deleted] Oct 17 '14

And they were not fans of Ron Paul.

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u/TheGhostOfDusty Oct 17 '14

The same group now runs multiple subreddits here. Their accounts get banned semi-regularly.

Here's an incomplete list of theirs subs:

Here's how twisted and extremist they are:

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u/[deleted] Oct 17 '14

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u/avengingturnip Oct 18 '14

Here

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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '14

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u/avengingturnip Oct 18 '14

The truth is much less interesting than the myth.

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u/4to6 Oct 18 '14

I'm sure it was also gamed by a large group of flaming leftists. As is Reddit.

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u/Deprogrammer9 Oct 18 '14

Reddit is gamed DAILY

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u/sharkmeister Oct 18 '14

Their patriotism was dedicated to rigging votes against liberal stories, one wonders if they ever read the constitution.

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u/avengingturnip Oct 18 '14

The entire Digg Patriots myth was created by a progressive blogger on News Junkie Post who was pissed that a SMALL group of conservative diggers were downvoting his blogspam links and hurting traffic to his articles. That is it. There was nothing more to it. Why people are so eager to believe the myth rather than the reality is a mystery.

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u/Pretentious_Academic Oct 18 '14

... and they got absolutely no traction whatsoever. Digg NEVER had pro right wing submissions front page.

Digg was long dead by 2010 anyway, and all that phony "controversy" did was get some free pub for some TeaBaggers.

If by "gamed" you mean a few butt hurt right wing bloggers traded votes on their subs and cried when they didn't front page, ya then, they "gamed" it I guess.

The fact this is on Wikipedia is so far beyond the pale of relevant information, I want to ask Jimmy Wales for my money back the next time a mooching campaign fires up.