tbh this is going to screw the casual user. A lot of people don't come on digg to make friends. They have 15 minutes here and there and come to the front page looking for quality content. This new system revolves around your friend feed. Sites like cracked, CNN, and APOD will still be on the front page daily due to all of their followers.
If you want the casual digger to become more active just drop maximum diggs per day down to like 50. This would give stories from new users way more exposure than they have now.
Also right now the algorithm doesn't take page views in to account and it should. If I am a new digg user and I sub a good story, then I share that story with non-Digg users and it ends up going popular in my crowd of friends, it might get something like 2k views and only 20 diggs.
IMO if a story is generating lots of hits from non-digg users it should be popular. I see awesome stories get 350 diggs and 2k views and they will never see the front page. Then I turn around and see something hit the front page with 50 diggs and 55 views. That doesn't make much sense.
New digg = destruction of casual user.
Also, I know a lot of people think that this will kill the "power users" - it won't. I have 2654 followers. CNN.com has 1730. Guess whose account will get more Diggs? But 1730 is hell of a lot more than the average Joe has. Food for thought.
Also, don't get rid of the bury button FFS. I see single jpegs and gifs surrounded by 20 ads hit the FP daily. If it isn't imgr, photobucket, or a direct link, then 90% of the time it's scraped from reddit and uploaded to some s**t hole mommy blog. Bury the f**k out of those.
guillebravo6Aug 19, 2010
Digg is always one step ahead
xclusive1Aug 19, 2010
New Digg or New Dick* ?
rocker8Aug 19, 2010
Dugg for the Girl
Dont you think she looks like a hot porn star.
couragewulfAug 19, 2010
tbh this is going to screw the casual user. A lot of people don't come on digg to make friends. They have 15 minutes here and there and come to the front page looking for quality content. This new system revolves around your friend feed. Sites like cracked, CNN, and APOD will still be on the front page daily due to all of their followers.
If you want the casual digger to become more active just drop maximum diggs per day down to like 50. This would give stories from new users way more exposure than they have now.
Also right now the algorithm doesn't take page views in to account and it should. If I am a new digg user and I sub a good story, then I share that story with non-Digg users and it ends up going popular in my crowd of friends, it might get something like 2k views and only 20 diggs.
IMO if a story is generating lots of hits from non-digg users it should be popular. I see awesome stories get 350 diggs and 2k views and they will never see the front page. Then I turn around and see something hit the front page with 50 diggs and 55 views. That doesn't make much sense.
New digg = destruction of casual user.
Also, I know a lot of people think that this will kill the "power users" - it won't. I have 2654 followers. CNN.com has 1730. Guess whose account will get more Diggs? But 1730 is hell of a lot more than the average Joe has. Food for thought.
Also, don't get rid of the bury button FFS. I see single jpegs and gifs surrounded by 20 ads hit the FP daily. If it isn't imgr, photobucket, or a direct link, then 90% of the time it's scraped from reddit and uploaded to some s**t hole mommy blog. Bury the f**k out of those.