Should Digg.com Create a Category for Cannabis? If so, digg this!

Below is an open letter to the developers over a Digg.com.

Im trying to convince Digg that they should have a category for Cannabis with subcategories such "medical", "hemp", "blogs", etc.

I dont know about you but I have such a hard time finding the proper place to put my cannabis articles on digg. And Id also like to see the highest ranked cannabis stories on Digg.

If you agree, please digg this!:
Should Digg Create a Category for Cannabis? If so, digg this

Dearest Digg's Diggiest Diggers:

I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for providing Digg, a valuable service of allowing we the people to affect the media of our time. As a Medical Marijuana Media Maven, I value this service beyond words.

Also as a Medical Marijuana Media Maven, I would like to suggest that you, the Digg Developers, consider adding a category specifically for all-things cannabis.

If you haven't notice, cannabis has been all over the media lately. I assume many of your dedicated diggers enjoy passing cannabis stories around as if the stories were the diggiest joints ever.

Your categories now just do not allow for easy placement of such stories. I keep putting my articles under "political opinion". I agree that my articles are political opinion, as are probably 80% of the articles about cannabis (itâ??s far more a political issue than any other).

However, I doubt 80% of the people who click on "political opinion" are really looking to find cannabis stories.

You even ask diggers to:


Tell us where to place your submission. Be as accurate as possible so that other people will be able to easily find it.


It's very hard to be accurate when your current categories are so limiting. For example, when I post this to digg, where should I put it. It seems like a "social networing" or "Social Media" category may be more accurate of an option.


It seems like digg could benefit from revamping their entire category list. If you would like help, I think diggers will be happy to provide input. Just ask.

If you could create a category dedicated to cannabis, you would have more people coming to digg to post their cannabis articles and looking for cannabis articles. Possible subcategories could include "medical", "hemp", "blogs", etc.

To prove my point, I will create a blog post with this information and ask all my cannabis friends to digg it. Weâ??ll see if others feel that cannabis disserves its own category on digg.

Digg deeper,
Cheryl
Medical Marijuana Media

even major news sources such as cbs have their own marijuana category on their website might be a point to add also. Marijuana Nation: The New War Over Weed - CBS News

That's a really good idea RedLocks. Someone thought that Digg wouldn't allow cannabis as a category because cannabis is against the law but I figured media about cannabis isn't against the law. Who knows what will happen?

Oh and someone said a category about cannabis is a gateway category and that other categories about bacon would then need to be added. I think that was a joke because I'm not sure how that came about.

My friend Devin Calloway said on facebook:"Kevin Rose, the founder of Digg, had a launch party for his other site Pownce at Dennis Peron's sometime back. http://laughingsquid.com/pownce-party-at-dennis-perons-cozy-castro-cottage/"

one bad thing I can foresee, when news articles related to cannabis are on non-canabis enthusiast/mmj/legalization websites, the inbreeds come out of the woodwork/caves with their spoon fed propaganda about marijuana is more addictive than crack and if you smoke it once your eyes will explode and you will die of cancer, but not before raping small children and goats while committing drive-by gang shootings, etcetcetc.. happens every time... :(

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Originally Posted by RedLocks

one bad thing I can foresee, when news articles related to cannabis are on non-canabis enthusiast/mmj/legalization websites, the inbreeds come out of the woodwork/caves with their spoon fed propaganda about marijuana is more addictive than crack and if you smoke it once your eyes will explode and you will die of cancer, but not before raping small children and goats while committing drive-by gang shootings, etcetcetc.. happens every time... :(

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Yeah, but I bet we can "bury" that nonsense on digg. I think there are far more of us on digg than there are of them.