Users who Dugg This
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sabazouNov 11, 2010
First
superman101Nov 11, 2010
I am so jealous.
dajobeNov 11, 2010Staff
Don't break it
extravagantNov 11, 2010
LOL....that's funny, i upvoted the top comment :)
gameondiggerNov 11, 2010
Is this the same thing as Trending that we had on V3?
That reminds me will ever ever see trending stories on V4? It was awesome in V3.
cdurukNov 11, 2010Submitter
It's not exactly the same, these are hand-picked. However, we have some new features so keep watching this space :)
cdurukNov 11, 2010Submitter
I hate you.
hipmanNov 11, 2010
How can a staff member be so immature?.
canyoucountNov 11, 2010
Film at 11.
thomasmoenNov 11, 2010
awesome!
badserverNov 11, 2010
I so Digg it. The Digg v4 experience is becoming interesting again. I hope you guys get the traffic back too.
heidenreich12Nov 11, 2010
I feel the same way. I have officially started coming here again. Reminds me of the good ol' days. Keep up the good work, and try not to get off track this time :)
justatoolNov 11, 2010
I really hope so too. I remember the time when I saw the most dugg story on digg..it was 50k!
impedance101Nov 12, 2010
bring back proper pedobear
diggisforn00bsNov 11, 2010
For the 8 people that still come to digg this is great...
minnullNov 11, 2010
I've decided to come back on board recently since the site does seem to be heading back in the right direction. Save the community, save the site.
cdurukNov 11, 2010Submitter
Glad you are back!
kwcarpenterNov 11, 2010
That makes me miss Heroes. Back when it, also, was good.
mastersaiyanNov 11, 2010
great news..
k so i have a feeling im back at v3 with new design..and less traffic lol :D but going good ! keep it up digg
l0nerNov 11, 2010
I love the load more button that loads no more comments.
bobbymacnairNov 12, 2010
Double clicking does it weirdly enough...
brianhollingsNov 11, 2010
Amazing work Digg. You're on the right track. Keep it up. I'm here to stay.
ltgenpandaNov 11, 2010
Thanks for the regular roll-out of new features.
I would like to hear from digg staff about two issues:
1. Nice to see that digg staff are now regularly commenting, but how about digg staff pay a daily visit to the Digg API support group? Questions more than 10 days are waiting. In the past I have written emails to the community manager about the same issue, which was then passed on to others and for a short time, there were timely responses. Now back to square one. The API has a ton of things to be fixed and unless digg staff want to engage in a constructive dialog with people who use the API, it will just stay the same.
2. This issue has been brought up by so many people several times. I have raised it numerous times and have been told that the fix is very close. But some staff seem to not even recognize the issue. So one more time .....
Clicking the upcoming tab on the site and sorting by newest stories OR getting the same via the API shows stories submitted from about 10 minutes ago, with about one story a minute or so. All stories there will have at-least two diggs. But the fact is (you can see through the stream), there are much more stories submitted, but they are simply not included in the upcoming tab or the API. Is there a reason to select only a few stories and leave out a majority of them? Or is it a bug ( as agreed to by several staff in the past http://digg.com/news/technology/digg_brings_back_user_submissions_page/20100930160938:d607cf41f95f42ed91abf6c441775edb ) This bug has existed ever since digg rolled out the upcoming tab.
No matter what, Digg is surely on a steady progress since the V4 launch and soon we will be back to where we were!
superman101Nov 11, 2010
The upcoming list, like almost all stories lists, are generated every 10 mins. Otherwise, that query wouldn't return in enough time. (It is a massive sort). Furthermore, we limit the stories that get into upcoming by a size
The missing stories was a result of our log rotation and analysis. That dependency for upcoming was removed (~week ago).
We are making the upcoming section more interesting in the coming weeks.
ltgenpandaNov 11, 2010
Thanks for the swift reply. I see your technical reasoning for the filtering. But do you realize that you are effectively killing any submission made by a user who has no followers? Why should they even submit anything?
A submission from a user with no followers, can be seen no where -- but for their profile page. To my understanding, the upcoming section is to serve as a place to find stories beyond what our friends have submitted/dugg/commented.
Also, this approach makes it impossible for an API consumer to see the full list of stories submitted in a given time span (ex: past 24 hrs), unless they were 24/7 processing the stream. Also, an application missing any story from the stream again makes it impossible to be fetched.
anillopNov 11, 2010
Exactly it seems like they are more interested in coming out with new features than fixing problems. I still cant remove the spammers that are following me. Why cant we remove followers from the site yet. I don't know these people and companies so why would I want them to see what I am doing?
sabazouNov 12, 2010
This isn't the only feature we have been working on, and we are implementing anti-spam measures in tandem. A captcha is now in place for registration, it won't stop all the spam but it will make it harder for spambots to create accounts. We are fleshing out a few more anti-spam techniques internally as well, and I'll pass along the feedback about removing followers.
When reading these blog posts, you should understand that we only announce a few major features or changes we make to the site and not all of them.
guillauweNov 11, 2010
interesting!
extravagantNov 11, 2010
please don't deviate from what digg is supposed to be, it is supposed to be completely user generated....breaking news is just a list from partners.... what digg needs to do is ensure equity and push stories to the front page quicker...not make an arbitrary list of breaking news from a small group of included sites.
anillopNov 11, 2010
The train left that station long ago with v4. User generated content doesn't pay nearly as much as ad placed content.
robbh66Nov 11, 2010
Dear Staff,
How hard can it be to get rid of the spammers?
Posts with every other line a return.
Links in the post.
Links flanked by some sort of symbol.
The same post posted 20 times in 5 minutes.
Talking about cheap fashion.
Dollar signs used frequently.
An account that was made 5 minutes ago.
It seems likek this should be a slam dunk to take care of with all the similarities most of these posts contain. If I'm wrong, let us know, but a lot of us think that this is a joke that it still hasn't been taken care of.
Thanks.
shavannah7Nov 11, 2010
i aggree. srsly guys.
richidNov 11, 2010Staff
Combating spam is not a trivial endeavor and is a constant battle (as a coworker once said, "all you can do is put more furniture in front of the door"). Individually, the heuristics you listed could be potential indicators of spam but they are fuzzy and would lead to false positives. Combined and with differing weights they could be a fairly effective algorithm but the cost of running this algorithm in real-time as comments are posted is also non-trivial. Personally, I think bringing back the comment reporting functionality was a huge win. It doesn't stop spam from being posted but it lets us remove it much quicker.
That being said, this is a topic we're taking seriously and are working to address as quickly as possible. We've had a couple releases recently that contained some steps to combat this and we're monitoring the results.
By the way, another decent spam heuristic would be physical proximity of keys for characters in a username. That is, many spammers' usernames are just the result of mashing a single row of keys on a standard QWERTY keyboard. Now that I've mentioned it that heuristic has likely become much less valid. :)
ltgenpandaNov 11, 2010
How about making use of all the heuristics robhh66 and you mentioned .... and giving the final short listed set of comments to the community to decide if it is spam or not. More like a single page of potential spam OR one more tab in every story page, with the potential spam comments.
That way, users can quickly react, rather than they accidentally stumbling on spam comments and reporting them.
richidNov 12, 2010Staff
An interesting suggestion. However, our goal is to avoid having users deal with this in the first place. We have some work in progress that I think is going to dramatically help the situation. If it does not, crowdsourcing the stuff that slips through could be a viable option.
doodlemasterNov 11, 2010
I'm distracted by your name
Can Duruk
Can dew rook
I didn't even know Can was a first name...
I'm not making fun of it it's just peculiar..
cdurukNov 11, 2010Submitter
Hehe, you'd not be the first one. I am Turkish so that's that :) It's pronounced as John.
confuciussayNov 11, 2010
Isn't the purpose of Digg is for users to decide what is popular & breaking ? Human intervention simply beats the entire purpose.Reminds me of something Kevin Rose said about slash dot a few years ago. Surely you can determine algorithmically what stories are breaking by the buzz they receive in a short time-frame from diverse sources... similar to V3's trending module.
cdurukNov 12, 2010Submitter
Rest assured we are working on some new features to surface content without any editorial intervention. Keep watching this space :)
confuciussayNov 12, 2010
Thanks Can!
cdurukNov 13, 2010Submitter
No problem, my pleasure.
anillopNov 11, 2010
I cant wait to see how this works. I can see it now.
Breaking: [insert company name here] comes out with new revolutionary new product
or
Breaking: BP announces new study that proves they did not cause the small oil spill in the gulf.
ltgenpandaNov 11, 2010
Really nice feature. But ...
1. Breaking means, something time sensitive. Typically, there would be no more than 10 real breaking news a *day* worth being highlighted.
2. Algorithm should decide what news is "Breaking" or not. If the algo cannot or does not want to do it, USERS should be able to vote what is really "breaking".
Without the above, and with what is displayed as breaking at this moment (2:23 PM CST) -- it appears to be a mere "Stories From Our Publishers We Want to Show in the Front Page". Again I stress, the stories I see now, suggest so. May be things will change later.
cdurukNov 11, 2010Submitter
Thanks for the feedback. The module is going to be used for not only picking breaking news but also collecting stories about a certain topic on a central place, that's what drive the development of this. I can say as the developer of this feature that those are what drove the decisions.
inajeepNov 12, 2010
Interesting concept. Instead of removing functionality you try something new. I hope this trend continues. It seems like a group committed to gathering those breaking news stories into one section would personalize it but ongoing a tagging system would need to be implemented that is tied to a time stamp. so news submissions would float on top as they become popular. This concludes my run on sentence.
senate4vidalNov 11, 2010
Digg Rocks! Happy Veteran's Day!
dfrankzorNov 11, 2010
I'm really loving the updates to the site. Its really improving, good job digg!
cdurukNov 11, 2010Submitter
As Steve Jobs once said: ”This is why we do what we do”.
Closed AccountNov 11, 2010
any staffers looking at this... could you please put the show comment button back to the old place... ive been mistakingly reporting comments because that button is where the show comment one used to be
im sure others have been doing it as well out of habit
cdurukNov 11, 2010Submitter
There's a small change to how comments look coming in a day or so. I think it'll care of that issue too.
Closed AccountNov 12, 2010
nice... digg is getting better every week
cdurukNov 12, 2010Submitter
:) Great to hear that. Personally, nothing motivates me more than seeing people love to use our site.
inajeepNov 12, 2010
I'd digg you up but you were unable to complete the request so I must refresh the page and try again. X
Some of us are still here. Trying different things like a breaking news section may fail but it is much better than removing functions and calling it new. Keep trying new things.
cdurukNov 13, 2010Submitter
Sorry for the bug you experienced there for a second. Trust me, we have some new functions that we are very close to rolling out and we think it'll make your Digg experience a lot more engaging.
rickybennettNov 12, 2010
56 comments and i cant see them all i only see maybe 30 or 40 of them WHAT THE HELL IS UP WITH THAT s**t
ch28kidNov 12, 2010
I gave up on Digg. I liked it when there was power user finding really cool content. All I see is blog spam, website spam and useless junk.
inajeepNov 12, 2010
Proper tense please. I have given up on Digg would be more accurate since given up on Digg would then mean you would not have given up by the the fact you just posted on Digg. It has improved. I'd call it digg v3..25 now.
superdog87Nov 12, 2010
Okay Digg, I promised myself I would keep active through this site change. I'm so glad I did. You guys have really started improving things lately. Your starting to act like a start-up company again, which is great. You have staff active and cutting up, you are starting to launch feature and tweaks QUICKLY, and are constantly improving. Keep up this pace and you will gain many more fan.
artofwar420Nov 12, 2010
Great idea bros! It's like saying "do you guys like this?" Then we either say "yeah!" o "nope" with our diggs.
Specially useful when there's crappy stuff in the front page.
peepNov 12, 2010
So, if I understand correctly, there is now a section that editorial staff are actively old school hand sorting to ensure usefully and timely things get seen? On the one hand I think this is great, because it is very necessary; On the other it kinda makes me sad, because it is very necessary.
cdurukNov 13, 2010Submitter
Think of it as an experiment; we are thinking of ways to surface more of the great content on Digg one way another and a human-picked widget of stories is just one of the ideas. We already have some new features being developed that will allow you to find interesting content without any editorial content.
The reason we wanted to write a blog post is to keep things transparent about how stories on that module is handpicked.
signitaNov 23, 2010
Good place indeed!
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mirasa70May 10, 2011
how in the heck do you remove a follower????? Why in the world can't I do such a thing!??