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- kevinrose, on 01/18/2008, -6/+74Unfortunately ValleyWag never contacted us for the real facts.
FWIW, we have one site administrator on duty at any given time. Their main responsibility is to monitor and review stories the digg algo/backend has flagged as pornography or SPAM. With 20M+ monthly unique visitors and tremendous traffic implications, gaming Digg is something that is attempted regularly.
So, as we have since the beginning, we'll continue to build tools and maintain staff that detect and remove spam/spammers - but most importantly, we rely upon you, the Digg community, to Digg your favorite stories and bury the ones you don't like.- inactive, on 01/18/2008, -8/+4I think we're the ones getting gamed. It's either democratic or not. A spam story may get dugg by a legion of zombies, but it will be buried quickly! Additionally, please explain the hordes of missing comments. I've lost a few, myself.
Having a Moderator Über Alles makes the rest of the process inconsequential. Bad Digg!- Branchex, on 01/18/2008, -2/+2Democracy does not always mean anything or anyone can be voted for otherwise the Governator could run for president right now. Some restraints are necessary to stop a mobocracy like a constitution or terms of service. If its no ones job to specifically to look for and stop spammers than who will. If spammers are not stopped before something gets to the front page then they already accomplished their goal.
- inactive, on 01/20/2008, -1/+1You understand nothing. Your example is invalid. You fail.
- inactive, on 01/29/2008, -0/+1***** you
- inactive, on 01/20/2008, -1/+1You understand nothing. Your example is invalid. You fail.
- Branchex, on 01/18/2008, -2/+2Democracy does not always mean anything or anyone can be voted for otherwise the Governator could run for president right now. Some restraints are necessary to stop a mobocracy like a constitution or terms of service. If its no ones job to specifically to look for and stop spammers than who will. If spammers are not stopped before something gets to the front page then they already accomplished their goal.
- inactive, on 01/18/2008, -1/+11When you look at the front page of each section and see two or three stories by the same users, and you see that a lot of them are duplicate stories that they have been allowed to resubmit instead of digging the original, when some of these users have over 25% of their stories promoted to the front page regardless of the quality, it makes you realize that something is wrong. I don't submit many stories. None of them has been dugg to the front page. I visit Digg fairly regularly and enjoy it, but it does frustrate me to see this obvious abuse. I can only say that continuing to allow these supposedly nonexistent superusers to abuse Digg like this may be one of the reasons the conspiracy theories are so easy to believe.
- PatrickX, on 01/18/2008, -0/+3Out of curiosity, could you tell us anything about what criteria the human editors are using to determine whether something is actually spam or not?
- inactive, on 01/18/2008, -8/+4I think we're the ones getting gamed. It's either democratic or not. A spam story may get dugg by a legion of zombies, but it will be buried quickly! Additionally, please explain the hordes of missing comments. I've lost a few, myself.
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