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Re:Digg is Dead by ivankirigin on Saturday July 26, 2008 @04:35PM (#257752)
Despite my love for higher level discourse, both YouTube and Digg are doing fine without it. You don't die when the average vocal user is rude online. That's almost the definition of mainstream.
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Re:Digg is Dead by froo on Sunday July 27, 2008 @05:17AM (#258131)
That's exactly right.

Look at World of Warcraft (WOW) vs most other mmog's, the language used by an average WOW user is much more coarse, yet WOW decimates other mmo's for subscription rates.

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Re:Digg is Dead by stcredzero on Monday July 28, 2008 @01:54PM (#259338)
I think this says something significant about our "society." I think this reveals where our notion of community has gone.
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Re:Digg is Dead by ivankirigin on Monday July 28, 2008 @02:18PM (#259373)
Online communities are nothing like the still vibrant IRL communities. The best of both worlds is when they intersect.
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