bloggingexperiment.com— Here's a detailed play by play of what happened during tonight's Town Hall for those of you that don't want to watch the whole hour plus video.
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gotta say, the rant sounds like you watched it WANTING to hate it. it really does comes through in your piece. i think you let your snarky bias come through. as a whole, they went above and beyond what any company would do
For the first Townhall, it was relatively good. However, there were many missed opportunities. Hopefully, they will be prepared next time sans the horrible music.
What they said is that they have things in place to catch spam but there is no button people push to bury stories. When you combine that statement with their statement that sites that have stories hit the front page too often are often reported by users as spam, I believe you what we know as the "autobury" list.While this is just my interpretation and reading between the lines a bit, I think basically if your site is being autoburied, it's been reported and Digg now considers it spam.
Diversity' became some kind of holy grail word whenever the subject of the algo came up. I understand what they were getting at..and I get that diversity is key. By god, there should be 'diversity' everywhere. The site is practically drowning in it ...millions of users every day.But, there aren't millions of users voting up stories to the FP. That's done by a hard-core subset of users that cover the site inside and out. And, yeah...those people are always going to be the same. The algo knows them all pretty well. And, I think it's been mentioned before...these people - and the stories they digg - are the ones punished the most by the algo. Kevin and Jay never addressed this, and they passed up another golden opportunity to encourage more users to participate in the process behind the FP. The algo would truly be diverse if even a fraction of those people spent more time in upcoming.
milocatFeb 26, 2008
gotta say, the rant sounds like you watched it WANTING to hate it. it really does comes through in your piece. i think you let your snarky bias come through. as a whole, they went above and beyond what any company would do
Closed AccountFeb 26, 2008
Cry more.
nomadelleFeb 26, 2008
For the first Townhall, it was relatively good. However, there were many missed opportunities. Hopefully, they will be prepared next time sans the horrible music.
skitzzoFeb 26, 2008
And hopefully with better audio. I agree though, it was at least a step in the right direction.
skitzzoFeb 26, 2008
What they said is that they have things in place to catch spam but there is no button people push to bury stories. When you combine that statement with their statement that sites that have stories hit the front page too often are often reported by users as spam, I believe you what we know as the "autobury" list.While this is just my interpretation and reading between the lines a bit, I think basically if your site is being autoburied, it's been reported and Digg now considers it spam.
tomboy501Feb 26, 2008
Diversity' became some kind of holy grail word whenever the subject of the algo came up. I understand what they were getting at..and I get that diversity is key. By god, there should be 'diversity' everywhere. The site is practically drowning in it ...millions of users every day.But, there aren't millions of users voting up stories to the FP. That's done by a hard-core subset of users that cover the site inside and out. And, yeah...those people are always going to be the same. The algo knows them all pretty well. And, I think it's been mentioned before...these people - and the stories they digg - are the ones punished the most by the algo. Kevin and Jay never addressed this, and they passed up another golden opportunity to encourage more users to participate in the process behind the FP. The algo would truly be diverse if even a fraction of those people spent more time in upcoming.