This submission to Digg from Daily Kos “went popular” today, which is to say it made the front page:
So it wasn’t “buried” per se, in that the story has not (as of about 8:00 p.m. Thursday) been demoted from the front page, and almost surely will not be. Last I checked, it was #10 out of 10 in all categories. The article submitted was a user diary by someone calling themselves environmentalist (like e.e. cummings or k.d. lang), cross-posted from the long-running mid-tier leftroots blog Unbossed.
The first Digg commenter said:
It’s a scam engineered by big oil interests to dupe the $4 per gallon weary public. Drilling/plundering our coasts for about 19 billion barrels of oil is akin to placing a Band-Aid on the hemorrhaging wound that is our oil-dependent, wasteful lifestyle.
The comment received +31 “diggs”, that is to say a net total of 31 votes in agreement. So far so good. But out of the ~430 comments added to this story, the top-rated comments fell somewhere between ~+150 and ~+50 diggs. Here is the first sentence of each, in descending order.
+151 diggs:
I hate to play devil’s advocate but here I go. (personal note: I am not a Republican)
+107:
Buried for being misleading bullshit.
+68:
If we began drilling offshore, oil prices would actually fall, because speculators trading in oil futures would bet on prices to be lower in the future.
+66:
Both candidates are forwarding two different ideas, but they are by no means mutually exclusive.
+59:
I should have guessed this was daily Kos bullshit.
+51:
Thanks, DailyKos, for continuing to put forth the stupidest ideas on the internet.
Anyone who follows the two websites knows that Digg and Daily Kos are both very pro-Obama. But apparently they are not pro-Obama in quite the same way. Better yet, Ron Paul’s volunteer army of paranoids seems to wandered off somewhere else.
As for the title and the caveat above, well, that’s not the only way Digg can bury Daily Kos:
