What is Digg?391 Comments
- 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- jdawg, on 02/23/2008, -0/+2It seems to me that the sites that "dominate" the home page are the ones that a) are of the highest quality and b) are the ones with the largest audience. Engadget and Gizmodo get 50-250x the traffic of ReadWrite, so of course they are going to get more votes--they have more readers!
If you're looking for a system that is not based on votes that would be Reddit right? digg is popular vote.... why would you expect it to be anything other than its stated mission?
TechMeme is a site that isn't driven by votes and traffic and i see RWW up there all the time.... of course, users seem to like digg much more than TechMeme... so, the public has voted: they like to vote.
- jdawg, on 02/23/2008, -0/+2It seems to me that the sites that "dominate" the home page are the ones that a) are of the highest quality and b) are the ones with the largest audience. Engadget and Gizmodo get 50-250x the traffic of ReadWrite, so of course they are going to get more votes--they have more readers!
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