Userscripts.org

The following is an archive of comments made before threaded discussions was implemented (November 16th, 2008)

Yeah, looks like the source is good now! Congrats!

However, to whomever run userscripts.org, it sucks that you've set the script source code page body to "text-align:center" for IE users! Who wants to read code centered!?!

Wow! I just looked at TheBunman's code and it isn't even that bad! It waits for you to view the article summary, and even then it pops up a confirmation. C'mon! With all the controversy I expected it to just bury EVERYTHING on the home page that was from Daily Mail, maybe 2 or 3 or 4 stories on every page. But this? This isn't bad. This is like a helper application.

However, what IS bad is that it auto-posts a comment saying that the story was autoburied and providing a link to the script. That's spammy. In fact, that's just as bad as someone posting spammy stories! So TheBunman, I'd encourage you to release a new version with the auto-comment lines removed. Just allow the buries without spamming the discussion.

Good luck!

If someone is going to manually bury daily mail articles, I don't see anything wrong with automating it. People can bury stories for any number of reasons. I often bury stories because of certain authors or sites. Some groups are notorious for being spammy, and it's a good thing for members to react to that. In the case of daily mail, I believe it has a reputation for being poorly fact-checked and sensationalist. That's the kind of thing I can shrug off or even laugh at, but for people who want Digg to appear as more "legit" let them put in their 2 cents. They're doing what they think is correct for Digg.

please don't install this script. automatically burying stories spoils other people's enjoyment of the digg website.