04/16/24
March 23, 2006
SportsFlip.com: It's digg.com with sports content. And sports metaphors.
posted by DrJohnEvans to general at 10:21 AM - 7 comments
It's OK, I guess, but where's the love?
posted by NoMich at 10:35 AM on March 23, 2006
Needs to be hit with the Not Ugly sitck. That's the secret of Web 2.0.
posted by yerfatma at 10:55 AM on March 23, 2006
Ummm ... I don't get it. So, the content is just links to sports stories, which are then ranked by the number of people who "flip" them? Why wouldn't it just be ranked by the number of people who clinked the link? And are there only three or four people posting links right now? And the design looks like a Florida Gator fan barfed on it. I checked out digg.com also and was greatly underwhlemed. Maybe I need a coffee or something.
posted by wfrazerjr at 10:57 AM on March 23, 2006
Yeah, I was underwhelmed too. I don't think the paradigm shifts all that well to mainstream sports news: when you find something neat, your instinct isn't really to think "oh, wow, I hope everybody else sees this" because everybody else probably already has. The nice thing about digg.com is that it points out sites that you wouldn't necessarily stumble across every day. If this site was used for more obscure things than SI.com, it might be a little more compelling.
posted by DrJohnEvans at 11:08 AM on March 23, 2006
I like reddit better than Digg. Maybe we could start posting sports links to Reddit. After a while, people would complain about too many sports links on the front page, and we could get a sports.reddit.com sub-reddit (how do you like that jargon?). Or we could just use terrapin's Magnolia sports group. Yerfatma's right on the money with the "not ugly" stick.
posted by qbert72 at 11:09 AM on March 23, 2006
Or, you could just bellow loudly, "fukitverymuch," log off and jump back into March Madness with the sweet 16, cheering LSU to throttle Duke, or jump on anybody else's fan wagon who can bust ACC and Big East teams. Can you digg it?
posted by Bud Lang at 08:38 PM on March 23, 2006
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