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- FyreGoddess, on 02/21/2008, -7/+262I'd like to see the censorship claims addressed (the theoretical "auto-bury" function, blacklistings and what that actually means, superusers whose buries are so heavily weighted as to prevent stories from ever moving forward), as well as someone speaking to how it's possibly for stories to garner hundreds of Diggs without becoming popular.
It would be nice to have something official and definitive that we laymen can point to instead of having to say "Well, probably..." - mhanley, on 02/21/2008, -6/+226Please, fix the Search. It is almost useless sometimes. I have searched for stories before I post them, only to find they are duplicates AFTER I post them.
- MrBabyMan, on 02/21/2008, -23/+229Can we get a moderated Digg user forum? We need a frequent, regular way for Digg users to communicate issues on a one-to-one basis with Digg administration. Ofttimes letters sent to support@digg.com result in no response. It's understood that Digg may be short staffed to handle support of nearly 3 million registered users, but a moderated forum may alleviate that.
- Skitzzo, on 02/21/2008, -12/+205I'd personally like to hear you guys address issues with the new algo. Specifically:
- the high threshold for stories for average users as well as power users
- the increasingly stale front page content
- the fact that the aglo seems to penalize stories dugg by like minded people (if a group of people enjoys sports, doesn't it make sense that they'd digg a lot of the same stories? and yet, these diggs are somehow discounted because they don't get enough variation)
- the fact that the algo seems to penalize the people that use the site most
I think that's it for now. Thanks! - SeaMowse, on 02/21/2008, -19/+197I'd like to see buries become public. It might discourage to any sort of alliance formed (aka the 'bury brigade') to bury stories without good reason. Mixx uses it as a means to see who voted a submission up or down. If a person can see who likes a submission, then they should be able to see who doesn't, along with a legitimate reason for the digg down.
- scaaven2, on 02/21/2008, -3/+157Can you let us delete our comments during the edit period?
- op12, on 02/21/2008, -6/+158We've seen the new comment system, when will it be rolled out?
- dutter, on 02/21/2008, -8/+116Given the news in December that Digg engaged the services of a bank to find a buyer for the site, can you tell us if Digg is still up for sale, and what kind of interest has been expressed in the site?
- canewediggit, on 02/21/2008, -7/+103more seriously- can you fix my profile activity, history, and friend's activity sections? they show up with no activity way too often. friend's diggs in upcoming has never worked once for me.
- supermanred, on 02/21/2008, -8/+98I would LOVE to see the "shout" system as it stands scrapped. With many friends now all I get is spam after spam of links to posts which I can't even keep up with.
I think a lot of us would like to be able to send private messages between users we flag as "friend"... As far as personal friends that also use Digg, I would love to be able to message them through Digg and say "Hey Greg, check out this story...pretty cool" but as it stands now our "shouts" to each other get buried in a tidal wave of shouts that come sometimes hundreds a day. Perhaps you would have to flag a friend as private message enabled to allow them to send you a message, thus bypassing the flood of shouts I get from my other Digg friends?
Right now my friends and I recommend digg stories by emailing each other. With a private message system, we could do it right through Digg, and Digg wins by getting a crapload more ad displays and page views.
Just a thought boys!
Love Digg, Diggnation and the new Digg Reel... keep up the great work.
Oh, me and my friends also agree that you should keep a graphic up on diggnation podcast relating to what story you are talking about. Sometimes we don't have enough time to watch the whole thing and would like to skim through and see what stories you are talking about but its a bit more difficult without an on-screen display.
Again, keep up the good work. Digg has become pretty much the first site I check out when I get home. I really should just make it my homepage. - bamafun, on 02/21/2008, -5/+94Please can we have a remove all old shouts button instead of having to delete them one by one and I'd also like buries discussed. Let's make them open !
- Sun.Surfin, on 02/21/2008, -7/+95Why are stricter measures not in place to prevent 'superusers' from resubmitting stories already in the upcoming section? As it stands right now, superusers often simply see a story upcoming, resubmit, collect tons of diggs, bury the other submission.. it's hardly fair to the little guy.
- inactive, on 02/21/2008, -2/+78Whats up with the Podcast section?
Most podcasts don't update, you can't digg/bury any comments, and it seems like it will be in beta forever(but that's very web 2.0-ish) - IllBeBack, on 02/21/2008, -10/+74Please show the number of thumbs up and down separately along with the overall total for comments. For example, something like:
+10 diggs (+13, -3) - Skitzzo, on 02/21/2008, -2/+66along with that, I'd also like to hear some discussion about stories being removed by moderators or whatever you'd like to call them
- EmitStop, on 02/21/2008, -7/+61How about a way to sort through your old comments? So you could see which comments got highest dugg, etc.
- chihpih, on 02/21/2008, -11/+63definately need to discuss censorship issues and auto bury that mysteriously happens for some stories
- laddr, on 02/21/2008, -5/+54Please discuss better options to get upcoming stories to the front page. Such as a random story appearing for easy digging for users on the front page. Maybe recommended upcoming stories on the front page based on digging history? This will allow a diverse crowd to help grow upcoming stories rather than a small hardcore crowd.
- whereiswooby, on 02/21/2008, -7/+55Stale front page content. Dugg
- BGog, on 02/21/2008, -0/+46Please, for the love of all things, ban the advertisers who's ads fly out of the ad box and over the main content of the page. Specifically that stupid ING*Direct Share builder one. See screenshot.
http://homepage.mac.com/sscalia/last_ad_digg.jpg - Skuzzlbut, on 02/21/2008, -4/+47I feel like the support@digg.com address just goes directly to someone's trash bin.
- BigManOnCampus, on 02/21/2008, -6/+48I'd like to hear about a proposed code revamp that makes it so that threads/submissions with a high post count do not bog down any machine that I attempt to load them on because of how the comments are displayed. Perhaps there should be java-free-link to comments?
- en3r0, on 02/21/2008, -7/+47How about anything new with the Podcast section?
- inactive, on 02/21/2008, -3/+42I'd like to see more detailed stats on how many diggs to buries I receive on comments, like a ratio. I saw some people talking once, bragging about their digg to bury ratios, but I've never been able to find out where to see that.
- makismagoo99, on 02/21/2008, -2/+39I stole this idea from something I saw on Reddit, but what about hiding the submitter of all stories for a certain period of time (one hour, 3 hours, whatever seems relevant) after submission? That would make the whole system more democratic and not favor the more popular users.
- philodygmn, on 02/21/2008, -6/+38I'd like to see the ability to negative-digg something. Don't show just an aggregate total, but show both positive _and_ negative. Replace the yellow sticky under # of diggs with 3 colors stacked on top of one another: negative diggs, the balance of what hasn't been cancelled out, and then the positive diggs beyond that (or negative if that won out).
I think you should be able to set your digg's enthusiasm level. Stories with a few really entheusiastic diggers I personally might find more interesting to track than straight-up popular, even among my friends. Ideally, you could set an arbitrary number as your digg's strength, and Digg over time will create your own "currency" such that your digging something higher than normal for you really shows up in a timeline graph of your user history, without letting people get away with number-inflation.
You need a timeline graph of these digg strengths, because right now it's almost impossible to see what's been significant on Digg over time, and stories don't have the chance to generate any lasting importance or staying power, which I think keeps things shallow and harms coherent community and keeps debate shallow in a way it wouldn't if a story didn't have to have a Digg-worthy wrinkle every 20 minutes not to disappear into the previously-dugg queue (again, even among friends). - bluedog16, on 02/21/2008, -11/+39I'd like to see a "Doing Good" tab, which would collect stories that give users the chance to do some type of good in the world.
We've all seen how the Digg community can unite behind a good cause when certain types of stories are posted. Imagine a tab that would host all the stories where people have the opportunity to help a worthy cause (EX: online charity auctions, write-to-congress opportunities, etc.). - ricmac, on 02/21/2008, -2/+29Top news sources should have a handicap like top diggers
a disproportionate number of digg frontpages happen for a select few sites. In the tech section it is Ars Technica, Gizmodo and Engadget. All are excellent sites that I love to read daily. But they totally dominate the digg tech section, so that other sites (incl mine) don't get on frontpage much.
I don't want this to to be about me tho, because the principle is: should a select few sites dominate on a social news site?
And, given that top diggers like mrbabyman and msaleem are 'punished' for their high digg rating by needing 150+ diggs many times to tip to frontpage, shouldn't a similar handicap be applied to the top news sources?
Prime example: http://digg.com/microsoft/Microsoft_jumps_on_the_o ...
(to finish url) Microsoft_jumps_on_the_open_bandwagon
The above story made it to the digg frontpage. Yet Engadget is a gadget blog and this story has nothing to do with gadgets. Also they posted it 3 hours after some other top news sources. Indeed there were loads of other sources covering this story (yes including my blog). Something suspicious here, I suspect digg was being gamed. But whatever the case that engadget post should never have made the frontpage, when the story was covered better, faster and with more context by other sources. I'm sure there are lots of other examples.
ref: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/digg_mainstre ...
digg_mainstream_narrow_news_sources.php - gbarberi, on 02/21/2008, -1/+25"Invisible Admins" or whatever. Personally, it's not the editing I have a problem with. I want it to be more public and transparent. Can we review the moderators?
- joestump, on 02/22/2008, -1/+25I'm coding it right now. Well, not right this second as I'm replying to your comment. Micah and I have been working on the new comments for about a week (he's been doing JS prototyping and benchmarking for almost two weeks).
- TearJerker, on 02/21/2008, -41/+65Kevin: Out of all the beers you had on diggnation, which do you think is the best? I'd like to hear your recommendation.
- gbarberi, on 02/21/2008, -1/+23I would like to know why, no matter how many times I report them, users and domains which are clearly spamming Digg's queue have gone unpunished. The only time I see a domain banned, user account deleted, and/or a reply email from Digg's abuse team is when the submission is pornography. Another user once posted about how he was being "blackmailed" by other diggers. They threatened to have him banned. "Digg is heavy handed."
I haven't seen that. Digg has been lenient and has been allowing the spam to accumulate in the queue amking it more difficult to find quality content [and the new users who submit the stuff]. - kelowna4life, on 02/21/2008, -8/+30let me get this straight...your calling in sick to watch a townhall meeting about a random website on the internet....thats ***** up man..you need to get a life.
- bouche, on 02/21/2008, -3/+25The community, postings and stories that really get DUGG in general are becoming more and more juvenile.
I'd like to know if there will be a time that Team Digg will ever have to step in and find a way to direct the community to things to be more meaningful and useful.
There also seems to be the same people getting stories posted over and over again, despite quality (suprnova for example had 4 on the same main page one day). That doesn't seem to be an accurate snapshot of COMMUNITY activity. - jaychuck, on 02/21/2008, -0/+22Also, make Upcoming more noticeable to everyone else that doesnt go there. This would help out a lot.
- DeathfireD, on 02/22/2008, -7/+28OMG sqtpppr dugg down 2 of my stories! That bastard! *starts digging down everything he submits as revenge*.
/end example
Showing dugg down's is a bad idea for a number of reasons. However I feel we should be able to see out comment dugg up and dugg down numbers like displayed in the DiggRatting Extender grease monkey userscript. (screen shot: http://img141.imageshack.us/img141/5442/digglf3.pn g - Kev585, on 02/22/2008, -2/+22Making buries public has too much potential for abuse. They'll be users out there who will use bury information to either digg up or bury a users stories. The exposure of this disapproval is too negative.
- gbarberi, on 02/21/2008, -4/+23Seriously, not the right time for trolling. Give it a rest right now. How about we leave this one post alone and all be serious and conscientious Digg users. If you can't, just log out for the day and come back tomorrow.
- perkonis, on 02/22/2008, -0/+18Absolutely agree with that. I've been thinking that visible moderators coupled with a Slashdot-esque meta moderation on those mods would go a long way toward cleaning up some of the mess around here.
- zcreem, on 02/21/2008, -6/+24Can we just go back to the good old days when this was an interesting techy site.
- misterpony, on 02/22/2008, -5/+23Wouldn't showing buries cause some major flame wars? How would that help Digg? I see that as a disaster waiting to happen.
- absolutelytrue, on 05/26/2009, -6/+24My main issue with Digg is transparency on the buries. I believe that auto-bury exists and I believe that several domains that I have modestly submitted content from are now on an auto-bury list. Wouldn't it make sense to see if you're buried, and get feedback as to why your content was not well received?
Transparency in the bury process would cut out, or at least identify the abusive users on Digg.
If Digg has domains on auto-bury, which I already said I think they do, they should answer the question as to why or remove the auto-bury. I have never knowingly violated the TOS or spammed Digg, yet I even have one domain that is banned because the submit form tells me it has been reported as spam. This domain actually had the advertising removed so that I hopefully could submit good articles to Digg without buries. I don't get it.
It sure would be nice if Digg answered their emails or created a moderated forum so that questions could be answered and problems resolved in a timely manner.
There is now an auto-bury script to bury any submissions from certain users. The top Digg users are targeted with this, but anyone could be. Digg has been notified of this problem script, has this issue been addressed?
So.. auto-bury, anonymous buries, banned domains, abusive users who now have scripts and a lack of any concern or communication from Digg. Those are some of the things I would like to see addressed.
OH.. and as far as comments.. I have never seen a reply button. I know it must exist, as users scream for people to use it, however I can't find it. I think I'm reasonably intelligent, and if I can't find it either I'm going blind or most people can't.
I'll put the town hall meeting on my calendar. - KMye, on 02/21/2008, -8/+26Making buries public would utterly destroy digg within a week.
- Sun.Surfin, on 02/21/2008, -2/+19Could we get an additional tab for stories in which users of Digg.com can submit their mirrors for stories? We could then promote them if they worked, or *mainly* demote them if the mirrors are down as well... With a site so huge, submitted pages on inadequate servers are bound to go down, and it's a pain having to sift through comments to find a mirror...
- thatsmyaibo, on 02/22/2008, -3/+20By putting more bags of Cheetos in your mom's basement and stocking the mini fridge with Mountain Dew?
- sgtpppr, on 02/21/2008, -3/+19I don't see any reason why it's ok to show who dugg a story but not show who buried it. It can only help the user base look for corruption among specific groups of users.
- Skitzzo, on 02/21/2008, -4/+19Oh, I forgot one earlier... a Digg Section (space for stories about Digg)
- Luminoth, on 02/21/2008, -1/+16And there's no reason for it to be that way.
- keysersozejr, on 02/21/2008, -3/+17The [Reported by Diggers as Possibly Inaccurate] tag appears far too easy to apply and tends to undermine stories.
Some users (Pizzler, Supernova17, MrBabyMan, MSaleem, Etc...) seem to have far too much influence and power. - soloride, on 02/21/2008, -1/+14***** your right I need to get a life. I don't even have a job. I was lying about having a job to make myself feel better.
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