Best of Digg: June Comments
In addition to presenting the most talked-about news of the day, Digg allows users to discover and comment on the sometimes beautiful and sometimes ridiculous images that fly across the web.
To honor the popularity of image submissions (they often dominate the weekly Digg Digest emails, which you can sign up for here), we’re spotlighting only comments related to images in this month’s look at Digg comment lulz. All but one (a personal favorite, can’t help myself) received more than 1,000 comment Diggs. You really need to check out the submissions themselves for these to click, but the effort is worth it.
To start, a question: When did Sarah Jessica Parker jump the horse? Maybe she was never considered “hot,” but didn’t she spend a large portion of her adult film career playing “cute” or “attractive” women? Maybe I’m just crazy. But there’s one thing I do know: Give an (anonymous, male) Internet commenter a horse and it’s only a matter of time until he gives you an SJP joke. Digg does not disappoint.
Give it up for another great, unexpected zing. As user dscan states in his praise of the commenter, “You commented with something witty that the Digg community wasn’t expecting. Touche.” That’s how it works, folks.
Want another example of a user coming up with something surprising? As the follow-up commenter so accurately and succinctly puts it, “You win.”
Digg users often complain about having to click 10 or 15 (or more) “next” arrows to view an entire post. Some even take it upon themselves to list the contents in one uninterrupted block of text. But this might be the first time someone has translated a photo slideshow into text. Bring on the emoticons!
Digg loves The Oatmeal. Digg really loves irony. Bring both together and you get some excellent comments. Here’s one tasty contribution (with proper attribution to boot).
Honorable mention goes to this comment, which not only gets Governator points (we love us some Arnold) but also provides an excuse to bring up a fantastic photo submission (and remind everyone that BP blows). And we’d be remiss not to give a nod to the World Cup fever that has taken over Digg this month (¡viva España!).
Once again, a million thanks to the Digg community for keeping the discussions lively and fun. Holler if you have any comments for us, either via our handy contact form or through Twitter @digg_community.
Hasta pronto,
T.J.