soshable.com — Recent changes and restrictions made by Digg.com to encourage diversity in the range of users whose submissions reach the front page have had 2 profound results. Newer and less active users have seen their stories reach the front page, but the sources that are able to hit the front page have tightened.
Mar 18, 2009 View in Crawl 4
ddogfilmMar 18, 2009
great story!
joshstone100Mar 18, 2009
There must be some monetary compensation to obsessively game Digg like this. Otherwise why would people bother to waste so much of their time and energy trying to push a front page story here. Bored and nothing better to do or what?
yeeaauuhMar 18, 2009
Because they work there. <a class="user" href="http://digg.com/users/TimeDotCom" rel="nofollow">http://digg.com/users/TimeDotCom</a>
upickMar 18, 2009
Another great article to display the s**t going on here at digg.com,No joke, all the power users (1% of users) are controlled now by how many fp's they can hit per day, but they don't limit websites? Half the s**t on here is from huff and youtube, I'm just seriously sick of it, I'd rather just go to google news at least it's not so bias
thinkboxMar 18, 2009
Gizmodo courted top diggers along time ago, they saturated the front page so often the didnt need their help anymore.Diggers saw it on the front page, so that is what people submitted - thinking submitting content mirroring hte front page is the best way to front-page yourself...This is what's wrong - everyone mimics the front page rather than diversifies.
crazlunaticMar 18, 2009
why do power users spend so much time on the website? what do they get out of it?
crazymaster16Mar 18, 2009
As i see DIGG may become just site where are shared a few feeds of famous sites. I have seen a lot of interesting stories which are from non famous websites, and that's why they can't hit FP...
datgrrlMar 18, 2009
So really how did we all think that a democratic news stream was a good idea in the long run? Fun for a while, but ultimately a big mess.