What is Digg?50 Comments
- merreborn, on 10/12/2007, -3/+42"If Digg was bad, nobody would launch 9 copies of it every day."
Since there have been a couple hundred myspace clones to date, that means myspace is really good too, right? - webcrunch, on 10/12/2007, -5/+27If it isn't my blog, I have nothing to do with it and I don't give a rat's ass about you visiting that blog, how is it blogspam? Sorry about the "long" description. As I was submitting the story, Digg said "Be Descriptive: You're the story's editor, so explain what it is and why it's cool.".
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -5/+15If Digg was bad, nobody would launch 9 copies of it every day.
GTFO +1 - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+13Agree. I think Digg should implement what these guys do with the "My Front Page" thing, the like-minded users and if it's not too much to ask, the skins. The other stuff I don't see it as important. Well, threaded comments of course :-)
- bitterg, on 10/12/2007, -3/+13Link to actual site:
http://www.corank.com/ - webcrunch, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10I think you just made my point :-)
- seca111, on 10/12/2007, -3/+12what if I have no friends :(
- theantirobot, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Personalized front pages are a nice idea. Digg should do this. It should weigh stories more based on the people who digg them. If a user diggs mostly similar stories to you, and then diggs something that you have not, it should be given more weight.
I think a problem with the way digg works now, is that as the number of people using it increases, the quality of stories promoted to the front page diminishes, in much the same way that music loses it's quality when it is made to appeal to the large audience.
Someone should start a social news site with self forming niches generate your front page. - bonexaw, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6IMO this new site is less about the "ooo.. new feature.. look the front page is nicer". It's about the premise that a large percentage of Digg users are idiots.. rather, you regard them as such because they don't share your view.
This site lets you only let the votes of people / groups you care about to matter, and not those fan boys that you despise (but that your friend loves) - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Actually if you go to http://www.corank.com/features.html and read the slide #8, it says: "Besides the default, five completely UNORIGINAL themes are provided today". So at least they're honest :-)
- SteveMax, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8Link directly to the information, in that case (or: link directly to the site you described, not to a blog post that will repeat what you just said in the description). The blog adds nothing to what you said in the description + the site the blog links to.
- EtherGnat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4The Internet has already succeeded in giving us access to vast quantities of information. The next frontier is technologies that help us filter and evaluate that information. I think the first site that manages to correctly combine editors, personalization (both automatic and manual), and collaborative filtering/ranking is going to be very successful. All three methods offer something valuable--combined they would be incredible.
Some sites have managed to combine at least two of the technologies haphazardly. This site seems like it might be another step in the right direction. - poisonberry, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5I wonder if they get UBUNTU articles all over the front of their site as well?
- geonlab, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Yup, threaded comments, please.
- cutlerite, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5If digg had all the features people wanted, no one would start up digg-style websites.
I'm still waiting to be able to search within my own dugg links again... - webcrunch, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4You can actually see the user base here: http://www.corank.com/tech/users/
Not sure if it's real-time or cached, though.
On the other hand, if you read the article, you'd see that the site just launched, so I'd be surprised if in day 1 it had a large user base (unless the company launhing it was Google, Yahoo, MySpace, Digg, etc). I mainly submitted the story because I think it's an interesting concept, and it has some features I haven't seen in other Digg clones and that I think could be really neat to have them here in Digg. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -6/+9Registered, let's see what this is like.
- Azimuth1, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4http://www.corank.com/features.html
This is the page the submitter is actually talking about. I agree that skins would be a nice addition. Other than that, I'm happy with how Digg works. - moojj, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Oh my god, a photos section! That has me sold!
- webcrunch, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Steve, I still think that linking to a story that provides some insights (IMO this one does, plus an odd conversation between the blog author and Marshall & Arrington from Techcrunch, as well as a comment from the coRank founder) is better than just linking to the site, but of course not everyone needs to agree with that.
- webcrunch, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I also think the "Top this month" is not a bad feature. You don't necesarily get "powerful" users and everyone who's been doing a good job lately gets some exposure.
- CountC, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Fags.
- iofthestorm, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Ugh, Digg needs threaded comments. Please? Without threaded comments there are very few intelligent conversations and pretty much only the first couple comments and their replies actually get read. Threads would let you respond to someone else who replied to another comment directly, which is especially useful if someone disagrees with you and you want to continue a dicussion. Much better than this stupid @user business. While a lot of people here may rag on /. for being outdated and backward, at least it's got threaded conversations, and the new comment system is way better than digg's, although it could be a bit smaller to fit more comments on one screen.
- jmah, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The "shared" nature of digg is one of its assets. I can see a person browsing the site and start up a conversation: "Hey, did you see that story the other day on ...?"
If the stories you saw were personal, that wouldn't happen, and there could be no diggnation! - bobcrotch, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4Not to mention horrible punctuation.
- mikehartor, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Well... sweet!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1I think the "9 clones" thing wasn't meant to be taken literally.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Better? Did you check the skins/themes? You can actually make it look JUST LIKE Digg :-)
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0coRank isn't about having friends but about selecting people whose opinion you value. It's right there in their home page :-)
Are you telling me that, besides not having any friends, you don't value anybody's opinion? Well, that might be the case, but then, what are you doing in Digg? :-) The way I see it, you use Digg because you value EVERYBODY'S opinions, and if that doesn't work well for you, then you have things like coRank to select a smaller group of people, friends or not. Something like that... - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+3The constant flow of blog links dramatically increases the desire to game the system because there is a financial incentive to do so. On rare occasion a blog adds some really valuable information. This is not one of those cases. I often wonder what Digg would look like if all blogs were banned from submission.
- cmburns69, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0@cutlerite
Or maybe clone site founders are just looking to make a quick buck... - ArnoldTPants, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Looks a lot better than Digg.
- abstractstar, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1The majority is always wrong!
- Scrappy1850, on 10/12/2007, -6/+4rehab
- HarryBauzonia, on 10/12/2007, -5/+3To the re-education camp, comrade!!!!
- zbarlowe, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1anybody look through the categories? looks like they don't have much of a user base because the top story on the entertainment page was joost, not exactly brand new news
- supermajic, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2http://img525.imageshack.us/img525/6167/originaliz6.jpg
how original - lazyeyesam, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1digg is great for the simple functionality which gives me more time to read the articles -- plus, I'm interested in expanding my mind - if I only listened to people like me then I'd never learn anything new!
If it ain't broke, don't fix it - love you, digg! - Matic, on 10/12/2007, -4/+13 Cheers for a site that shows the power of Drupal!
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HIP HIP HOORAY - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -6/+3the mighty apple fan boy rules all
- shaun1018, on 10/12/2007, -15/+11I for one welcome our non-digg over lords.
- brstilson, on 10/12/2007, -11/+7How dare you say *****. Off to therapy with you!
- BullTaco, on 10/12/2007, -5/+0I think it was Mindfreak that claimed that.
- VhaidraU, on 10/12/2007, -7/+1"coRank is more a "crowds are stupid" (note: the site doesn't claim that, neither do I)."
Then who is claiming that? God? - SteveMax, on 10/12/2007, -20/+12The description has as even more content than the linked blog. Buried for blogspam.
- CountC, on 10/12/2007, -14/+6The "Top 10 submitters" and what stuff only leads to pure faggotry imo
- Scrappy1850, on 10/12/2007, -11/+2http://www.corank.biz
- GawtMilk, on 10/12/2007, -17/+7Thanks, I had assumed it would be http://www.corank.info
- b05q, on 10/12/2007, -13/+1Buried!!!! I'm not going to sit here and let him say CROWDS ARE STUPID!!!!
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