valleywag.com — Ever hear of a "top Yahoo user" or a "top Google contributor"? Ever wanted to meet the top Amazon buyer or most active NYTimes.com reader? Nope. At the biggest sites on the web, it's not about the top users. It's about all of them.
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Closed AccountFeb 3, 2007
ooo allow freinds to send messages, lame, have u ever heard of stickam, i want live audio video webcam broadcasting to my freinds not just messages. put up some fibre optics digg
vanosFeb 3, 2007
@followme: Just look at it. It's all jacked up!
juano11Feb 3, 2007
HA, HA, HA...f**k all of the little geeks who thought that by being listed as a Digg "Top User" somehow made them cooler...Now quit your whining and get out there and find me some good articles to read....
juano11Feb 3, 2007
@Radical...Nice, thanks for condescending to the rest of us while reminding us that you've had your two inches added to your ween by reaching the "Top 100"f**k off...
diafelFeb 4, 2007
Wow, Kevin actually wants to PROTECT the top users? I can only assume Kevin lives inside some sort of fantasy world considering almost all the top Digg users are part of a technological circlejerk of digging each others sites. Much like the very submitter of this story: <a class="user" href="http://digg.com/users/scoreboard27/news/submitted">http://digg.com/users/scoreboard27/news/submitted</a> < Notice how every one of his articles has at least 15 diggs? What does gaming mean for you? It means stories are being fraudulently promoted to the front page not on merit, but on how many efriends one person can coerce to digg their sites for them. Digg is as editor driven as slashdot... only here the editors have all chosen themselves.
sabret00theFeb 4, 2007
As an occasional digg user i must've stumbled upon the list once. i don't think i've actually successfully submitted a story. however i do see the merits of the list and the reasons for removing it. A user reward system is always important.
grtwhtFeb 5, 2007
As a digg addict (spend FAR too much time here), but minimal commenter/submitter, I have noticed something reading the pending stories: the exact same story will be submitted many, many time, but only the one submitted by a top user (or simply a user with lots of friends who digg it for that reason) makes it to the front page. Yes, the story still makes it to the front page, but so do duplicates, spam and 'lame' reposts because people are digging people, not what they submit. The move to a semi-anonymous or prefererably a completely anonymous submission system will improve the content on digg, although it may also reduce the total number of submissions. Which do you and digg want more: tons of crap that's on every link site on the 'net (making digg just another news site), or high quality, unique content?
Closed AccountFeb 9, 2007
@KoderOne: the "user-generated content" in this context is not the stories. Only the link and a small description to the story is submitted. The user-generated content consists of the comments.