I found a Greasemonkey script online called dgg that filters digg.com stories. Lately, I have been annoyed with certain classes of stories on Digg, namely the ones that are just of some picture that someone found and thought clever, anything from The Onion (I’ll go there for my fake news, thanks), and the Top Ten Best [insert crappy digg-bait story here]. While Mr. Grzesiak’s script could easily take care of the first two classes of annoying stories, it didn’t have a way of taking care of the other. So I rewired it! (Okay, bad Home Improvement refference.)
At first, I added an option to block stories that started with a number, but I realized that what it really needed was Regular Expression support, so I added that too. I sent an email to the author with my code for submission. I am pretty happy with the result. He did a great job integrating the code into Digg, and I think that I did a good job expanding on it.
Digg is now tame.
At first, I added an option to block stories that started with a number, but I realized that what it really needed was Regular Expression support, so I added that too. I sent an email to the author with my code for submission. I am pretty happy with the result. He did a great job integrating the code into Digg, and I think that I did a good job expanding on it.
Digg is now tame.
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