Digg is a place for people to discover and share the best content from anywhere on the Web. You can submit articles and other Digg users vote them up or down. That way, the articles on the main page are those that the community finds to be the most interesting or unique. You’ll find articles about the most outrageous construction projects in Dubai and why seven hours of sleep may not be enough for you.
Digg also promotes a conversation about the topic by allowing readers to comment on the article, see who voted on it, blog about it, or e-mail it to a friend.
Unfortunately, I wouldn’t consider many of the digg user commentary to be uplifting or of good report.
I agree with Jacob. I’m a LDS Digg user, but the majority of Digg users claim to be atheist and agnostic. Many of the images, video and articles that make it to the home page of Digg are not what we as Latter-day Saints would consider the “best” content on the web. Many are anti-religious and offensive. This applies to other social bookmarking sites as well, not just Digg.
Digg is about half-full of submissions that I worry my children will see. And the comments are replete with foul language and dirty jokes.
I understand that hitting the Digg front page will drive lots of traffic to a web site. But, I am shocked it would be mentioned here. It’s like telling LDS missionaries to go hang out in a dive bar or a show at the Las Vegas strip to find worth-while people. Worth-while people may be at such a place, but I would not want to wade through the garbage to get to them.
Is there a way that I can be automatically notified if a story from one of my websites is submitted to digg?