What is Digg?38 Comments
- halleyscomet, on 10/12/2007, -3/+28Please note, the above link to gigaom.com is the very kind of Blog Spam that's referenced in the main article.
Those who dugg it are falling for the very trick that the article is warning us about. - RaggTopp, on 10/12/2007, -2/+25That link is to a blog that someone basically paraphrased everything the original link had. Oh wait, isn't that what 99% of "blogs about blogs" are? People think they're presenting original content when all they're really doing is plagiarizing.
- ArchieAndrews, on 10/12/2007, -0/+21The people that get me are the folks who dig stories on headlines alone. Come on folks, that doesn't help.
Some folks do it to "bookmark" the page for later reading so I think that a method of _marking_ stories as opposed to digging them is a valid feature request. I guess you could use the "my #1 story" feature as it does keep a history of stories you marked as such but that seems awkward to me.
Anyways, if folks took the time to weigh the value of stories they digg instead of just digging stuff that they think has a promising headline, we would be in better shape. - Cymrubeats, on 10/12/2007, -2/+22They can't. There was one posted just yesterday "19 things you didn't know about death" or something like that, it hit the front, and all it was was an insurance company page.
- joelhardi, on 10/12/2007, -3/+21News about digg! If you read digg, read this!
Umm, well, if I didn't read digg, I wouldn't ... forget it. Not that this particular guy's article wasn't interesting and all, but when I first started using digg, the front page wasn't full of: New digg features! How to use digg better! Kevin Rose interviewed! Random plugin/service for digg! Digg featured in buzzwordy web 2.0 story! Stupid site copycats digg! Digg spam is terrible, how to stop it! Why digg is broken! Why digg rules!
I'm here for news, not news about digg. I suppose we all have one thing in common, and that thing is digg, but people gotta exercise some discretion. If I'm a crotchety old man, mod me down.
Then I'll start a blog called digginsider.com, make the front page 3 times a day, and laugh all the way to the bank. - NewChar, on 10/12/2007, -1/+16I LOL'ed, I was pretty sure it was a joke.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13Looks like nearly 1,000 Digg users can't spot a spam page when they see one...
- argh44z, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Digg is horrible for ad conversion, because many of it's users have adblock and other related applications/extensions on. It's talked quite a bit here: http://forums.digitalpoint.com/ and other web marketing/SEO forums.
Spammers ARE using Digg to increase pagerank thouhg. - webtickle, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8I actually submitted the "19 things you didn't know about death" article yesterday. Not sure if that is what people consider diggbait but as a Digg user I try and submit anything I find that I think people will like.
That story had over 1000 diggs, pretty sure the community liked it. I personally don't consider it as spam, if it was spam the community should have marked it as lame or spam. I found it a bit humorous. - JaytB, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9I hate spammers!
- skored, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9Isn't this essentially the same story as http://digg.com/tech_news/Spotting_Splogs_on_Digg - even though this one is the direct link? Is there any need for both of these to be on the front page?
- Fhwqhgads, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Archie is spot on. i myself am guilty of this for the reasons he stated. They need a mark option for sure.
- victorycig, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5@Archie:
That's a good point. Easy bookmarking or tagging stories is something I wish digg had. - mindstyle1, on 10/12/2007, -4/+9Does it really matter what kind of site that article is placed on as long as the article is good?
- ArchieAndrews, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Actually, I guess you have to digg them before you can mark them as My #1 so my quick awkward try at a solution won't work either.
- Ampers, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Thats right. Aren't we meant to dig stories that are good, and in order to work that out you have to read it first. If it is spam it can be marked accordingly.
So what if some company writes a good story and submits it to digg, isn’t the idea that it will be treated equally and judged accordingly by the masses. Is there any difference between a company that submits their own articles and a blogger that submits every one of their own blog posts?
If it is spam and makes it to the front page, it means that it was eighter a good article, or we as a whole eighter a) do not read the article first, or b) are too stupid to work out if it spam. - invinciblechunk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Lisa needs braces.
- abohling, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3This is one of the reasons I read the comments before clicking on the link. Usually if it's spam-tastic it is noted fairly early on.
- jcaino, on 10/12/2007, -4/+6yea, i'm marking this one as spam...
- Johnbinarystar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2bloggers (vanity press users) writing about each other ad infinitum, it's just as undigestable as the word blog.
- MrDaniil, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Coming up next - an article from spammer explaining how that article is a spam.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4If the content is good, then its a sure bet that if its appearing on a spam/ad-ridden site it was ripped off from a more legitimate source first.
The problem is finding the original, a task th net makes very difficult. - bonez05, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Its all about the content. WHO CARES WHAT SITE ITS ON. Isn't digg istelf selling ads just as their blog was doing? I read the article in question and it was helpful, and useful -> dugg.
- victorycig, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3The problems they discuss are extremely apt:
"Social media sites and search engines need to stay on top of this new form of content creation, continually analyzing data and scrubbing out the dirt. Sites overrun with web spam quickly lose their utility and might be banned from search engines."
We don't want digg to become a haven for spam that's one step above some of the crap in our inboxes. - yahoofrom, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Guys. What's your problem? Don't you think spam is delicious?
- Asianwaste, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Isn't that what the Bury option: "This is spam" is for?
- TSSaloic, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Yes yet one's spam is another's good story.
Plus it takes many to bury the story completely. - tipsqueal, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Well written, although I thought the conclusion was kinda weak.
- yahoofrom, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@ArchieAndrews,
Use del.icio.us. - JiggNJive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0THANK YOU for doing the very same thing! :-D
- FushBuck, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Stoopid noob question: how can you tell this guy's doing the same thing he accuses someone else of doing? He wasn't trying to sell anything, and his links were to his flicker photos and something else I didn't bother clicking.
While I'm at it, how come all my posts have a "reply" option, there doesn't seem to be any way of turning it off, and other people don't have the "reply" on their posts? (I don't mind, just wondering.)
Appreciate your input, thanks. - sreeks, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Archie is right. We need a mark option. Anyway the rate at which the stories are flowing in, it is difficult to read each one of them as well as its comments and then digg it. My vote goes for a mark option. A mark converted to a digg should carry more weightage.
One more idea is to classify the comment as supporting, dissent or interesting will help in adding more meaning to the news and quickly assimilate the information.
A side effect of this feature, would be that as a news archive will help us, diggers, evaluate ourselves, particularly stories that discuss about a future possibility. - AlexSGabor, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Looks like much ado about nothin...
- sfacets, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1The culprits, as usual, appear to be Christians.
- tagawa, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1You'd better not call it digginsider - the lawyers will pay you a visit.
- Cymrubeats, on 10/12/2007, -5/+2To quote the first post "Looks like nearly 1,000 Digg users can't spot a spam page when they see one..." And you could now also add "...and neither can some of those who submit them".
- shmatt, on 10/12/2007, -8/+3um, like you maybe?
- sophiaperennis, on 10/12/2007, -54/+6Good article. More on this: http://gigaom.com/2006/11/21/social-media-anti-social-problems/
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