Comments on: Who will reign over Digg: Obama or Jobs?

Digg's second quarterly "town hall" Webcast reveals that the site's geeky core hasn't been universally happy about the onslaught of politics-related stories in recent months.

[fafafooey]

Leave it to the Demokooks to corrupt yet another thing with their hatred...

[middiablo]

I personally have had quite enough of Clinton and Obama cluttering up my Digg RSS feed. Not to say that I still haven't found interesting stories on digg but why not leave the "political" news for cnn or msnbc or wall street journal or Washington Post

[fredtheviking]

Why? You ask... Well it seems that you would only get news one way and you wouldn't benefit from other perspective's. On the other hand, you may one of those people who is content with what is feed to them from the mainstream (i.e. No Peak Oil, War Terror as suppose war on liberties, etc.). That may be who are and that's fine. You could choose to seemly ignore political news from Digg and look at only that which interests you. Until they have a way for you customize your RSS feed.

[ecotopian--2008]

The content of Digg reflects what Digg's users are interested in, what they are thinking about, & what they think is important. It is only natural that political news is big in an election year. If you don't like what you see on Digg, nobody is forcing you to look at it. End of story.

[MikeG8r]

The content of Digg reflects what the Digg collective wants it to reflect. Any comments to the contrary are promptly buried. It is one of the clearest examples of social censorship on the net.

[Len Bullard]

And now you know why walled gardens exist.

The first thing to notice if you are a social reporter is societies. They are pluralistic and set boundaries. Three generations ago, politics and religion were two topics that weren't discussed in polite social forums, which is another way of saying the polity limits the conversation. The only thing more taboo was sex, the only topic we all have in common.

One way to keep a common item at high value is to constrain its frequency. The way to diminish it is to increase it's amplitude. Welcome to the Web.

[Jeff Putz]

I absolutely don't get the complaints. I look at the tech category, and those are the stories I get. I never see the political stories unless I go to the "all" category, which is not what my profile is set for.

Am I missing something?

[kwilco]

YES!!! A LOT OF CRAP!!!