Lately, I’ve been surfing around on digg, and I’ve seen more & more submits that are in completely different languages.

I can’t even begin to decipher what they are supposed to be about. Sometimes they come in spanish, sometimes arabic. Every once in awhile I’ll see one in french or chinese.

Is it just me, or does anyone else have a problem with this?

I mean, I have No Idea what the submit is about. I don’t even want to click on it, in fear of what’s on the other side. Not like I would even click on it to begin with, because if I can’t read what the title or description says, then why would I even click it, much less digg it.

We already have to deal with a large portion of the digg community being spammers who only contribute if there is some sort of personal gain. Why should we put up with stories we can’t even read cluttering up the already cluttered upcoming sections?

The Bury Dilema

This is where my bury dilema starts. Is it ok for me to bury it, or is that just selfish of me, because others might be able to read it. But, then I start to wonder if anybody even reads them at all? What percentage of the digg community actually clicks thru on these stories? I don’t think I’ve ever seen a foreign language story submitted to digg that had more than 3 votes.

Has anyone reading this ever dugg a story that was in a completely different language? I haven’t.

To be honest, I just want to bury them down. Get them off the page as soon as possible, because that would ultimately improve the content on digg. right? But who am I to attempt to police digg? I’m not a moderator. I have no power. I just have one digg that I can choose to contribute or not.

Plus, I realize that there is somebody on the other end. Somebody that took the time to fill out the digg submission form. Sure, it could be just another digg spammer. But what if it was somebody who intended to submit good content? Somebody just doing their job. I don’t want to do that to somebody. Most importantly, I don’t want the bad karma.

What Should Diggers Do?

So, what do we do? Should the digg community as a whole actively bury these stories? Ignore them? Ban them?

If nobody ever clicks on these stories, then what’s the point of them being on digg at all? But on the same accord, why should we only restrict digg to one language… wouldn’t that just cut out a potentially large audience?

I for one, say we should bury them down. But that’s just me.

Thoughts?