sociallygiven.com— Instead of sitting around and complaining, I have decided to offer a potential solution to solving the duplicate story submission problem.
Dec 29, 2006View in Crawl 4
AMEN bubba9999!! I too have noticed this huge annoyance. The Search very rarely returns what you are looking for. Case in point... after the latest Diggnation, I was trying to find the "Podcasts for learning a foreign language" story. (The Diggnation user hadn't yet Dugg the story, so I could find it that way). The Search was not finding it, when I was searching for keywords "foreign language podcast". Go ahead-- try it. It won't find the desired story. Only once the Diggnation user had actually Dugg the story, could I go and find it by looking at its profile. VERY frustrating, when you know there is a story you're looking for, but Search is not finding it.
Looks really good. I think the number of exactly how many sources have been posted next to the "alternate sources" field would be a helpful one-glance kind of thing.
Hell, I'd be s**ttin' puppies if Digg implemented dupe prevention for the *EXACT SAME URL*... not just for similar stories.If Fark can do it, I don't see why Digg can't.
@lukas,One problem with this whole thing is two articles on the same topic might NOT actually be duplicates - however, DIGGers who fail to read both articles before marking one (or both) of them as duplicates would be unaware of that.For instance, suppose I see a story on DIGG about a topic that I am very concerned about, so I do a lot of extra research and find some other source on the web that offers much more accurate, detailed, or up-to-date information about the same topic. If the first story has reached the front page, the original submitter deserves to keep the credit for being the first to submit an article on this topic. But then, my new article should also have a chance to reach the front page if it gets enough DIGGs, and I should also get credit for this, WITHOUT taking any credit away from the first submitter's article. The first article provides prompt information for eager DIGGers, while the second article offers a substantial amount of additional information and/or a follow-up on what happened after the first story came out.I wouldn't want to submit the second article with more complete or updated information if I thought that this would cause the first article to lose the "front page" credit that it has already earned.DIGG submitters do like to get credit for articles that reach the front page, and there's nothing wrong with that. It provides an incentive to motivate people to submit good articles promptly, and to keep looking for and submitting better and more informative articles as the story develops and additional material comes to light.If DIGG users feel the need to see all articles on the same general topic linked together, a keyword tagging system would be a better way to do that.
mhanleyDec 30, 2006
AMEN bubba9999!! I too have noticed this huge annoyance. The Search very rarely returns what you are looking for. Case in point... after the latest Diggnation, I was trying to find the "Podcasts for learning a foreign language" story. (The Diggnation user hadn't yet Dugg the story, so I could find it that way). The Search was not finding it, when I was searching for keywords "foreign language podcast". Go ahead-- try it. It won't find the desired story. Only once the Diggnation user had actually Dugg the story, could I go and find it by looking at its profile. VERY frustrating, when you know there is a story you're looking for, but Search is not finding it.
picfuturoDec 30, 2006
Looks really good. I think the number of exactly how many sources have been posted next to the "alternate sources" field would be a helpful one-glance kind of thing.
fishbertDec 30, 2006
Hell, I'd be s**ttin' puppies if Digg implemented dupe prevention for the *EXACT SAME URL*... not just for similar stories.If Fark can do it, I don't see why Digg can't.
nerogtrDec 30, 2006
Caps At The Start Of Every Word? Why? Isn't That A Bit Of Unnecessary Extra Work? It Looks Pretty f**king Annoying Too.
Closed AccountDec 30, 2006
Sorry, I think I forgot to include the URL: <a class="user" href="http://www.indierockcafe.com/2006/12/stephen-colberts-green-screen-challenge.html">http://www.indierockcafe.com/2006/12/stephen-colberts-green-screen-challenge.html</a>Has anyone checked out<a class="user" href="http://www.webcontentprofessionals.org">http://www.webcontentprofessionals.org</a>
bigkittyDec 30, 2006
@lukas,One problem with this whole thing is two articles on the same topic might NOT actually be duplicates - however, DIGGers who fail to read both articles before marking one (or both) of them as duplicates would be unaware of that.For instance, suppose I see a story on DIGG about a topic that I am very concerned about, so I do a lot of extra research and find some other source on the web that offers much more accurate, detailed, or up-to-date information about the same topic. If the first story has reached the front page, the original submitter deserves to keep the credit for being the first to submit an article on this topic. But then, my new article should also have a chance to reach the front page if it gets enough DIGGs, and I should also get credit for this, WITHOUT taking any credit away from the first submitter's article. The first article provides prompt information for eager DIGGers, while the second article offers a substantial amount of additional information and/or a follow-up on what happened after the first story came out.I wouldn't want to submit the second article with more complete or updated information if I thought that this would cause the first article to lose the "front page" credit that it has already earned.DIGG submitters do like to get credit for articles that reach the front page, and there's nothing wrong with that. It provides an incentive to motivate people to submit good articles promptly, and to keep looking for and submitting better and more informative articles as the story develops and additional material comes to light.If DIGG users feel the need to see all articles on the same general topic linked together, a keyword tagging system would be a better way to do that.
allholy1Dec 30, 2006
awesome idea.... don't forget to add duggmirror too.<a class="user" href="http://img174.imageshack.us/img174/3673/diggdugpg9.jpg">http://img174.imageshack.us/img174/3673/diggdugpg9.jpg</a>Although there is a greasemonkey script to do this automatically, it still would be nice to have it built into Digg.
nardukJan 1, 2007
Let's not pull the trigger too fast. Think about the possibilities for abuse.
sherifgmansourMar 14, 2007
This article was posted with what I believe is a better suggestion: <a class="user" href="http://digg.com/tech_news/Is_anyone_else_getting_sick_of_duplicate_articles_on_Digg">http://digg.com/tech_news/Is_anyone_else_getting_sick_of_duplicate_articles_on_Digg</a>That is - The more someone marks a story as a dupe, the more effect the dupe has. Read up on it. I like dexter's idea better.
treeheadApr 11, 2007
If you want to fix this, help me Digg this up. It's a feature idea to solve the story duplication issue:<a class="user" href="http://www.digg.com/design/Digg_Feature_Idea_Digg_Pile">http://www.digg.com/design/Digg_Feature_Idea_Digg_Pile</a>Similar to this one, but elaborates on other possibilities.