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WordPress plugin to block DiggBar (inspired by Jon Gruber)

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I don't understand why the concensus seems to be "Let's show digg users we mean business and give them a fuck off message" rather than let's see if they're coming from digg and simply redirect to my regular url.

Or possibly, modify your page with a slim bar on the top saying Hi to digg users, minus the diggbar, still showing your content.

There's also the whole breaking out of a frameset. But the link, or maybe an informative message (Hi, you're from Digg, visit here for the permalink etc etc), would be better than rejecting Digg visitors, where many may not even be aware of the Digg bar. They just click on links on the homepage and see what's what.

The concensus isn't in telling the digg people to fuck off. The concensus is in cheering ONE man that's telling digg to fuck off.

The reason everyone is hyping it up is because we get to see someone else be 'daring' by saying what we want to say, without having to bear any of the possible side-effects. Not that there would be any side-effects, considering most of the digg crowd is of the 'mindless, illiterate' type.

Just put up a couple lines of javascript, bust out the iframe, say hi to the visitors from digg and move on. Time for the next story.

I think the intent is to convince Digg to drop their bar altogether by punishing their users. Whether or not that's a good idea remains to be seen.

I can't speak for anybody else, but to put it simply: I do not want to modify my page to work around Digg's stupid shit. I do want Digg to stop doing the stupid shit. Your suggestion is less likely to lead to my desired outcome.

If anyone's bothered I made a simple framebreaker plugin http://alicious.com/2009/frame-breaker-wordpress-plugin-remo...

So what's the default message? "Dear Digg, fuck off and die."

The Diggbar is only visible to Digg users and links shared by Diggers.So if Digg users are revolting against it, that makes sense. But obvious Digg haters like John Gruber revolting against the Diggbar looks like a cheap publicity stunt to me.Calling Digg users "mindless, borderline illiterates" and greeting them with "F* off" message to Digg, is just hating Digg. Doest look like this has anything to do with preaching standards.

As a Digg user, i dont like Diggbar on pages linked from Digg pages. But i would appreciate this,if the url shortening service along with Diggbar was an independent feature.

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