blog.digg.com — "Just wanted to give everyone some insight into some of the changes we’ve been making this week. As we’ve talked about in the past, Digg’s promotional algorithm ensures that the most popular content dugg by a diverse, unique group of diggers reaches the home page..."
Jan 24, 2008 View in Crawl 4
sapo916Jan 24, 2008
I like the indicators that you are foreign, I notice in a lot of spam and such the overuse of the words dear and kind. Total give away as normal English speakers do not speak that way.
gallardoJan 24, 2008
This was a much needed change. How do you think the most lame/obscure stories from Gawker Media or Weblogs Inc or other large sites/blogs always hit the main page? They have huge groups of people to help them game the system.Gawker Media (Gizmodo, Valleywag, etc) recently introduced a pay-per-traffic system for its editors rather than a pay-per-post or salary structure. This is 95% built around Gawker staff gaming Digg or otherwise getting their stories on Digg. Straight up... that's what it is. Why do you think Gawkers are all upset about this now?
tandy400Jan 24, 2008
"Oh noes the algorithms changed." Some of you are taking this way too personally. Digg is a place of recreation, not a lifestyle. Sometimes the stories are good, sometimes they're not. Who cares? If you don't find a story you like, do something else like, I don't know, go outside? All the whiny bitches are really ****ing up the place, that's what the real problem of Digg is.
srilankaboyJan 24, 2008
This is good news. Digg is a very interesting place. you can find all the coolest, hottest and best web content there. But yeah, at the moment it is difficult to get digg votes for content submitted by small diggers.
rmullen1Jan 27, 2008
Algorithmic changes are fine, but I hope you pay more attention to the duplication algorithm. There is a TREMENDOUS amount of garbage coming through. I know you don't want a 1st Amendment battle, but the number of independent posts for "hentai" and porn beggars belief! It seems to me that you can enforce the grouping rules on "hentai" fairly easily. I'm sure I don't have to explain what it is and the fact that it's not easily confused with any other Japanese word. I'd think the incentive to deal with this would be strong, since it dilutes the value of any one "digg" and uses up processing power. You could even just create a rule that says if we find "xxx" and/or "hentai" we put it is this basket and then the poster has to overcome the presumption of spam. IF they don't, then it gets dumped into one basket that isn't counted in a way that affects legitimate stories. Would love to hear the solution you come up with. And, thanks so much for all the interesting code. It has been a while since I looked under the hood here, but I REALLY like the submission form "topic-container", hidden input box stuff ! Definitely something to implement once I figure out how to do it! SCHWEET!
thisiscjfoolJan 30, 2008
It's more about accountability. This site would turn to s**te if no one was responsible for what they posted. Imagine TV where people put on what they wanted anonymously. People would submit horrible things and get away with that. I'm sure that you might like something like that, but the rest of the normal people don't like watching a website turn to just a spam and porn dumpsite. You are so thickheaded.
cowsgonemadd3Jan 31, 2008
This is a change that could hurt digg. It has hurt many submitters including me.
Closed AccountJul 11, 2008
If Mr. Rose read this with this comment about reading out comment being dugg down big time he should be changing this and setting up an email for the feedback or is there one already?
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