[OSM-talk] digg

[Bruce Cowan]

On Wed, 2006-09-20 at 15:04 +0100, Paul Neave wrote:
> On 20/09/06, Nick Black <nickblack1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Yes, they sound like 12 years olds.  It reminds me of AOL chatrooms back in '95.
> 
> Exactly. Digg (and SlashDot et al) is mostly used by American teenage
> geeks who think they know everything and actually know nothing but
> still insist on shouting their malformed opinions in some kind of
> techie slanging match.  It's the MTV (or should that be MySpace?)
> generation.  If it's not immediately obvious why something is
> worthwhile then it's shunned as crap and uncool.  So don't take any of
> the comments to heart!
> 
Indeed, it's not as if any of these people really would have helped out
anyway.  I noticed this when I saw a topic about climate change.  The
first comment was "It's a myth".  Also, I reminded them that America is
not the whole world, and they replied "Yes it is.  Silly foreigners."

It can be fun arguing though.
-- 
Bruce Cowan <bruce.cowan at dsl.pipex.com>