First of all, people say it’s obtrusive, How is it obtrusive then any other toolbar out there today (web or not)? It’s not ginormous or anything or a size that’ll consume up most of the screen and it doesn’t even interfere with anything, I can read the article just fine without anything obstructing my view. And also, I don’t get the thing about it being in a separate inline frame being bad. First off, the DiggBar is resizable, I’ve tried this and the DiggBar just hides the text slightly and the inline frame resizes horizontally among the window meaning it works with almost every screen resolution imaginable. Secondly the web has changed since the age of flashy design elements and people are designing their websites with an mix of design and style, meaning that their designing sensibly rather then going out of control, just look at almost any site on the web today. Third, some sites still use inline frames and I don’t get the cross compatibility issues that you keep complaining about, rather they resize accordingly just like the DiggBar

Frankly, you guys that hate the DiggBar are just overreacting because frankly you can disable the bar if you don’t like it and if you don’t like Digg then you don’t have to use or join Digg if you don’t want to. While I do agree with some of your guys reasons, this is just completely insane. For people saying that they’re keeping you on Digg’s domain and not redirecting you to the source link, the source link is in an inline frame itself which means that the page gets loaded as normal and that page get’s a view count. Also I need to clear some things up about some of the absurd things that I’ve heard. DiggBar does not display it’s own advertisements per say, there are no Google Ads, no Banner Ads, nothing. If you’re thinking that it’s one big advertisement for Digg then you seriously need some help.

One thing that really bothers me is the fact that people knew that the DiggBar was coming beforehand and it had alot detailed information on how the DiggBar was going to work. It even described in full detail that it was going to be in an inline frame and Digg was going to have a shortened URL. There was even a small dicussion that was before the initial DiggBar release about some doubts that people have about the then unreleased DiggBar which was at the time being beta tested to make sure that Diggers’ would love it and not have a problem with it. You guys could of addressed these issues to Digg before they released the DiggBar and you guys complained about how sucky, that way you could of at least made a difference or at least made the DiggBar a little bit better. You guys could of said “Hey, I don’t like the upcoming DiggBar, there’s a specific thing that I don’t think is right”. Thankfully there’s a feedback button on the bar itself so you guys can help improve it but still, why didn’t some of you guys know about the upcoming DiggBar?

In closing, I have to say that all of you guys are simply overreacting to this, sure there might be people who like it and people who hate it but during the time I’ve used it, I have to say that it’s not obtrusive, that you guys are focusing too much on the inline frame as the source of criticism, that even though they’re keeping you in the Digg domain and not letting you leave Digg, you can just click the X on the top right of the toolbar or disable it entirety and most of the issues that you claim to be problems are exaggerated over the top. I admit that there are some problems such as logging in from the DiggBar is not as dynamic as I want it to be but overall people should just give the DiggBar a chance and not just complain about it because it uses obsolete technology or it radically changes Digg so much. I like Digg but I occasionally don’t like their users because of the childish way that they treat things (A.K.A. The Digg Ban Brigade), but overall the community is very mature, again, just give it a change.

Now before I go on I must say that I do not watch FOX News, I am not a regular government believer, in fact my father is an activist and has really thoughtful words to say about politics, the government and anything altogether, nor do I believe in the propaganda. Mostly these truth sites force you in by saying “The government may seem nice on the outside but there is loads of corruption and things the government does not want you to see in the inside. Stop believing the government’s lies and let us show you the truth that they do not want you to see.” Now that’s how they grab you but what you see inside is more lies, lies even much more deceptful then the government.

What you see is a lot of christan propaganda, you know with every truth-seeker being a christan and all, they’d probably connect with god not approving with the government doing the things that they want you to believe that they’re doing. But what they’re doing is not what they’re even doing at all. They claim that they’re poising you with common household materials to make you dumber and make you believe everything the government is doing is a good thing, they claim that AIDS and HIV are curable and a scare tactic that is used to convince people to get the shots which somehow introduces a chemical that changes your body to make you much more closed-minded, also debatable is the claim that you can cure AIDS and HIV naturally and that you get sick because of all of the medicine they give you. Please, if AIDS and HIV is so “curable” then Eazy-E would be alive by now and cranking out hit rap records.

First of all, how can the government include chemicals that taste exactly like the food it taste likes? It would take a lot of money to engineer the chemical to have the exact same taste as the billion types of food out on the market today. And why would they waste millions of dollars trying to get the people to dumb down and believe in the propaganda? I mean aren’t people already stupid enough to believe in anything, as evidence by the millions of idiots flooding the idiot today believing in anything told to them, mostly they’d be the target demographic they’d want to spread the “truth” to. Besides, with everybody under their control, how will they create the illusion of the “American Life”, spending most of their money trying to control them and all? It’s just blatantly stupid.

Also, answer me this question. How in the world could your body get sick from medicine? They act as if the medicine taken doesn’t allow people to procrastinate, reduces their brain function and makes your white blood cells weaker. And they blame it as the basis for the common cold, flu, basically every disease there is. I’ve taken lot of medicine and I have not gotten sick, once. This reveals another thing with “truth-believers”, they’ll do anything to get you to believe in the truth, even if it is deceiving you. If you look at most of the “proof” they have, you’ll see that it’s very, very fake. Here’s how they make you “believe”.

1. Create a claim so over-the-top that it’s got to be real.
2. Subject won’t believe so it’s forced on him over and over again
3. Proof created using Photoshop or staged as a video “documentary”
4. Subject begins to worry, brain starts to think that it’s real
5. Subject actually believes that the claim is real
6. Profit!

Simple right, simple forcing fake proof like Barack’s voting record which was obviously created in Photoshop to suggest that he’s the same like George W. Bush, at least McCain was actually twisted and involved in a Ponzi scheme where he stole from the banks a lot of money. This is just suggesting that every president is the same corrupt, world ruining guy just wanting the seat of power, wanting to get rid of freedom, wanting it all for the money, that’s just crazy stupid. Also to make you believe that they don’t even care about the first amendment, they put themselves of situations of controversy… By stepping up to the office, saying that they’re protesting, then change the story that they’re not protesting and that they’re just at a disagreement, and get this, they actually jump cut it to make it appear that they’ve been arrested for violating the 1st Amendment. Wow, it’s almost like the government is behind these videos.

Also, subliminal advertising. Really, really, really stupid. To think that companies, actual companies, could insert subliminal advertising in their advertisement. First of all, the human eye is able to detect every frame of video or what they’re seeing, so I’m sure they’ll be able to detect the “subliminal advertising” on the “18th frame”. I have nothing against advertising, but these people make a big deal of it. I’d admit that the commercials are too long, take up too much time and also take up too much space, but they’re not forcing you to buy the products, it’s not like the advertising is telling you to actually buy the product. Besides, without advertisements, companies wouldn’t be able to make much money, websites wouldn’t be able to support itself and local places would likely close up without anyone knowing it exists, how much they cost and the wonderful experience you could have there.

Now imagine a world as these people who believe in the “truth” imagine it to be. Imagine if albums like Nine Inch Nail’s “Year Zero” Nas’ “Untitled”, Young Jeezy’s “The Recession”, Metallica’s “…And Justice for All” and Megadeth’s “The System has Failed” never existed. There would be no expression, no freedom of speech, because that would be restricted in a perfect world. People aren’t being allowed to do what they do, people following a forced regimen, people being controlled and forced with much more propaganda then there is. All other religions not existing, no chaos, no balance, everything would just be love, happiness, and perfect. Everything would be same on the radio and the news and people would probably go insane from all of the peace and order.

That’s the kind of world that could theoretically exist but considering that every person is genetically different and probably has different needs, then the world would not probably work out for everyone. It may not matter for everyone but I am tired of these “truth groups” going out and spreading lies about everything just so they can destroy the government and have her very own way. I know that the government lies about some things and try to cover it up, but under the Obama administration, I think that’ll stop. Goodbye people trying to launder money and goodbye USA trying to get Oil so they can get a financial benefit.” I feel that the War on Iraq was mostly for Oil because mostly they want to control all of the Oil and get all of the profit. Anyways, that’s it for me…

Karras out!