View Full Version : Here is the problem with using digg stories as fact
bob8779
05-06-2007, 07:08 PM
I'v seen the several times on the show and with some of my friends they see a single story on digg and assume it is fact. The were talking about the walmart hd dvd thing Alex used only the one story to base his report on but if he would have gone through and looked at the other articles digged on this walmart story he would have found out it was based on a mistranslation here is the engaget story on the same subject. If Alex had even bothered to read the post below the article he would have seen this
http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/20/the-wal-mart-299-hd-dvd-player-on-the-way/
this is an older story and most sites corrected it within one or two days that is why it popped out at me from the podcast.
is it that big of a deal........no
bob8779
05-06-2007, 07:35 PM
I guess it comes down to this people being lazy just reading the first part of a digg story and assuming it is fact. The community does a good job of fact checking on the digg site if they see something that is wrong they will speak up in the comments sections of a story.
comhcinc
05-06-2007, 08:19 PM
i think the point of diggnation is to talk about cool stories, not cool facts.
tokenuser
05-06-2007, 08:29 PM
They were discussing the story on diggnation, not the facts behind it ...
However don't dismiss the WalMart factor. Denials from WalMart could just be FUD. They mananged to decimate the big box electronic retailers over HDTVs last holiday season, and it is in their best interest to standardise on one platform for HD movies. If it is HD DVD then so be it - no point in having 3 different formats on the shelves, DVD, HD DVD and BluRay ... and they got burnt by the PSP movie format before, so I am guessing Sony is not a favourite with them.
bob8779
05-06-2007, 08:30 PM
hehe omg comhcinc it doesn't matter to you if a story has any fact in it just as long as it is funny?
token but they were talking about the story as if it was a fact
i think the point of diggnation is to talk about cool stories, not cool facts.
Well put!!
comhcinc
05-06-2007, 10:21 PM
hehe omg comhcinc it doesn't matter to you if a story has any fact in it just as long as it is funny?
yes if we are talking about diggnation. i like kevin and alex but i'm not getting my news from a couple of drunk 30 somethings who are looking over stories submitted by 13 year olds.
masherscf
05-06-2007, 10:27 PM
Kevin and Alex are great guys and I love watching them, but I wouldn't trust any of "facts" that come out of their mouths.
Kevin is really famous for making unprepared and drunken statements that are sometimes just plain ignorant. It's all part of the fun.
(P.S. My favorite is then Kevin didn't realize that alcohol has calories. Hello? Calories are a measure of energy. You can burn alcohol. That's energy. )
Anyone looking to diggnation for hard news is gonna be disappointed.
tempesta
05-07-2007, 01:39 AM
is it that big of a deal........no
bman++; or ++bman; if you're anal like that (i know some poeple who are reaaally uptitght about that)
tokenuser
05-07-2007, 02:49 AM
bman++; or ++bman; if you're anal like that (i know some poeple who are reaaally uptitght about that)bman+=2?
..
bob8779
05-07-2007, 03:16 AM
At lease Alex could have put in little bit of effort. if he would have just read the second readers comments on the stories original website he would have found out that the story was based on a mistranslated story. this was on just about every hd related web site and most of them corrected the story within a day the original translation was ?? hddvd and it was later translated as blueray or bluelight hddvd. once this happened the story pretty much died no one was sure.
tempesta
05-07-2007, 12:14 PM
bman+=2?
..
no.....just no :P
j34nn07
05-08-2007, 12:42 AM
«Here is the problem with using digg stories as fact.»
Maybe Digg's crew has a certain responsibility to check their sources... but I really mean a certain. Digg is for entertainment, not for quoting in a college/university paper... And as someone else wrote: They read stories that are published, they comment them but they don’t say out loud that the stories are Facts…
groover
05-08-2007, 04:51 PM
It looks as if the story on the Wal-Mart HD-DVD players are not coming out. http://www.highdefdigest.com/news/show/High-Def_Retailing/Wal-Mart/Hardware/$50_Wal-Mart_HD_DVD_Player:_Fact_or_Fiction_(UPDATED)/585
Also Porn is coming to Blu-Ray. Thank you Vivid. This is old news http://www.highdefdigest.com/news/show/Disc_Announcements/Vivid/Blu-ray_PornGate_Ends_with_the_Return_of_Debbie_Does_D allas/445
I hate format wars but I think they are competing for the next Laser Disc spot if this fight lasts years. I'm a big movie fan so I am multi-platform. HD movies are cool to me.
bob8779
05-08-2007, 08:19 PM
«Here is the problem with using digg stories as fact.»
Maybe Digg's crew has a certain responsibility to check their sources... but I really mean a certain. Digg is for entertainment, not for quoting in a college/university paper... And as someone else wrote: They read stories that are published, they comment them but they don’t say out loud that the stories are Facts…
when you look at that part of the podcast they are commenting on the store as if it was fact that is how it came across to me anyways.
moparpower
05-09-2007, 06:11 PM
Also, Walmart is not that big for 5.7billion people on the planet. So it doesn't matter alot.