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- Qorzm, on 11/04/2009, -3/+63Trends are clearly trending
- KMehthas, on 11/04/2009, -4/+50is there any way to turn it off?
- doublsh0t, on 11/04/2009, -2/+44I really like this idea, the lack of this type of "breaking news" feature has always been a thorn in the side of Digg's news aspect. Keep up the good work.
- srt4b, on 11/04/2009, -2/+34I don't see it.
- cards, on 11/04/2009, -4/+33Combined with the twitter feed, this could make it very easy for highly opinionated groups to prevent stories from reaching the homepage. Did the bury brigade just get stronger?
- srt4b, on 11/04/2009, -2/+27It's called the Front Page
- djskyler, on 11/04/2009, -6/+28It will be interesting to see the outcome of this. I am unsure how some stories will withstand a "ten-minute gauntlet" against the bury brigades.
- silver26, on 11/04/2009, -3/+24The twitter effect...
- justjeninsf, on 11/04/2009, -1/+16There may not always be trending stories live on the homepage.
- JTMON, on 11/04/2009, -3/+14JUST DISABLE IT IN YOUR SETTINGS. THERE, ALL GONE!
- cards, on 11/04/2009, -0/+9I guess I just think it gives groups on either side of an issue the opportunity to disproportionately affect what makes it to the front page vs the general digg population. Imagine a scenario where a controversial story is surfaced. People on either side can spring to action, contact one another, and push their side of the issue. If the story isn't highlighted, (like it's always been in upcoming), these groups don't have a single story to focus their energy on, meaning it's harder for them to out-vote the general digg population.
Whenever these ideas come up on how to get a better, fairer front page, I always go back to the idea that *the* solution is customized front pages for every user. If there's no such thing as *the* front page, there's less motivation to game it. - youshallhave, on 11/04/2009, -3/+12More stories about weed, incoming.
- Surkit, on 11/04/2009, -2/+10Where the part about keeping spamers off of the comment section? That's what they should focus on, not this BS.
- FLarsen, on 11/04/2009, -2/+10Negative, I'm a meat popsicle.
- dukeeeey, on 11/04/2009, -6/+13"We've been working on new ways to expose the most interesting stories to more people."
lol yeah sure
I think more likely MrBabyMan and his friends have been working hard on that .. - esmitty20, on 11/04/2009, -4/+10Dumbing down Digg a notch?
Don't find the trendy diggs by looking at the "most popular" ones? Is that too difficult for people? - franciscocosta, on 11/04/2009, -0/+6are you human?
- frieddonuts, on 11/05/2009, -0/+6Yo dawg...
- legofanboy, on 11/04/2009, -4/+10I hate to say it, but with the icons out, the ad voting and now this, Digg looks more and more like reddit...It's still a cool feature though.
- mark076h, on 11/04/2009, -1/+7Does anyone see it?
- sewalsh, on 11/04/2009, -0/+5Upvoted.
(sorry, DUGG) - 1jaxstate1, on 11/04/2009, -0/+5I saw it flash for about 30 seconds and it disappeared.
- DaviDTC, on 11/04/2009, -1/+6Love the people who blame it on the bury brigades when the crap that makes the "ten minute test" or fp is put there by the blind diggers who are just the opposite, but much more powerful than the bury brigades. This feature wouldn't be needed if people actually looked at what they were digging. Blind diggers, you can put blame for this feature on yourself.
The main point of this is to give no credit to the blind diggs that got it there. It says
"Based on the Digg and bury activity in those ten minutes the story will either become popular or not".
The diggs from people who don't even look at what they are digging, that powerusers rely on, will mean crap in this period. It pretty much puts each story back at 0 diggs but in a place where the community can decide, not your bed buddies.
If you actually submit good stuff, you will have no fear of this. If you rely on your 150 friends who blind digg your stuff to the fp, you are going to hate this. I assume most powerusers are going to hate this. Their precious ratio are going to go down. Boo-hoo, you all brought this feature on yourselves.
Is it going to stop blind digging? Nope. Is it going to stop powerusers from getting any crap to the fp? Nope, but it will slow it down. There good stories will make it, their random crap stuff will have a much harder time.
One thing I do hope they do, can't tell by just the screen shot, is when the story is in the 10 minute test, that it DOESN'T show who submitted it. That way people wont just bury it cause it is submitted by mbm or someone else they auto-bury. Make the people who bury it also decide to bury it based on the content of what is submitted, not who it is submitted by. - rwbrinso, on 11/04/2009, -0/+5Right, but won't enough people be digging the content to offset that anyway? I missed the one from earlier but from what I understand it wasn't up there long.
- srt4b, on 11/04/2009, -1/+5are you stupid?
- JTMON, on 11/04/2009, -9/+12Just give babyman his own section already.
- franciscocosta, on 11/04/2009, -1/+4from outer space?
- inactive, on 11/04/2009, -1/+4This is awesome! It will give us an insight into the circlejerk process!
- Alli3388, on 11/04/2009, -3/+6Why complicate things? This doesn't seem helpful or useful at all. Just busy work, or someone at Digg trying to impress his boss. Oh, and ***** Twitter.
- xsecretfiles, on 11/04/2009, -1/+3...same story was here a month ago
I wonder what's its agenda... - huff51, on 11/04/2009, -0/+2spend time fixing that mess up there ^
- inactive, on 11/04/2009, -3/+5Me neither :-/
- DaviDTC, on 11/04/2009, -1/+3Most popular still counts the 150 diggs that were done while they were in upcoming section. This means if it is crap, the digg/bury ratio will be very lopsided cause of the blind diggs it received. This trends feature says it will not factor in the 150 diggs it has that got it to the trends category. It will be like a new submission with 0 diggs/buries so if it is crap, it can be buried easier and the 150 diggs that got it there will mean nothing.
This lets the community decide if it is fp worthy, not the blind diggers. - IphtashuFitz, on 11/05/2009, -0/+2I find the countdown timer VERY annoying and wish I could get rid of it. I've taken to just burying anything that pops up next to the timer as my own sort of protest against it.
- algaeturd, on 11/05/2009, -0/+2ie: more surface area to fill with advertisements disguised as digg submissions. It's bad enough that they're on the front page.
- dcmcderm, on 11/04/2009, -1/+2I hate web pages that have white text on dark background. Makes after images burn my eyes, especially when returning to the black text/white background Digg comments to complain about it.
So far, I've managed to avoid clawing my eyes out of their sockets, I'll report back later if that happens. - justjeninsf, on 11/04/2009, -2/+3This is actually different than stories that simply have the most Diggs (the "most popular") - these are stories we've identified as having high amounts of activity (share, Digg, comment etc) that have not yet been promoted to the homepage.
- mabsark, on 11/11/2009, -0/+1YOU SEEM TO HAVE BROKEN YOUR BILLY MAYS KEY
- diggsterbuddy, on 11/17/2009, -0/+1This is filed under " You gut to do what you have to do ".
Ad space on a web page = Trendy
Folks will see them the same way you slow down to see a car wreck on the highway.
ads pay the bills so we get to see a great web site, right :)
It's not like we are drinking water from a fire hose. lol - mabsark, on 11/10/2009, -0/+1Your wish is my command.
Override the style using the following code.
#game {
display:none !important;
}
There is a FireFox add-on called Stylish that will let you do this, https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/210 ...
If you do not use firefox, you will likely find an alternative for your browser of choice discussed here, http://digg.com/mods/How_to_remove_the_Digg_Dragon ... - mabsark, on 11/10/2009, -0/+1I hate it nearly as much as I hated the Dragon Age background *****. It just does not fit with the rest of the page, the digits of the timer are too big.
Kill it with Stylish. - innonano, on 11/07/2009, -1/+2Wow, greate new feature!
- sickthoughts, on 11/05/2009, -0/+1Dugg for using the wrong [i]there[/i] and then correcting yourself in the next sentence.
- renesisx, on 11/05/2009, -0/+1Very trendy!
- DaviDTC, on 11/04/2009, -1/+2Cards, you are getting the general digg population confused with the blind diggers. Almost all the diggs that get a story to the fp are by the same people who don't even look at what they are digging. That is not the general population of digg. The general population is on the fp. For 10 minutes a story will be on the fp with 0 diggs/buries (will still show the 150 diggs it got in upcoming, but those diggs will not count for 10 minutes) and based on that it will make the fp or not.
- borez, on 11/04/2009, -5/+5The countdown clock that appeared before was extremely annoying, I'm editing video on a split screen and I can't be done with something like that appearing in my browser every few minutes.
Cool feature... but it needs an opt out button. For sure. - borez, on 11/05/2009, -1/+1It matters quite a bit actually if I'm editing video and a big countdown clock that looks like a film roll-in is flashing in the browser window.
- Myonosken, on 11/05/2009, -2/+1Why the ***** does it matter what is added to the page if your browser is already open?
- Moralogic, on 11/04/2009, -2/+1I will be happy to see it when it is up.
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