What is Digg?43 Comments
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+49But the people on Digg are doing the same amount of work for nothing.
- MaddDog, on 10/12/2007, -3/+39Hmm.. $1000 a month.. the top earner blogged 645 times, added 1437 comments and uploaded 358 images. He took from the pot $349.38 Canadian dollars.
Sounds like a lot of work for peanuts. - 1spinnaker, on 10/12/2007, -7/+27Jason from netscape tried the same thing.... he failed
- Walker2323, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15With a site layout like that it won't be killing anything.
- swOhio, on 10/12/2007, -2/+15The problem with a site that pays its users like that is that once the money gets big, some people will stop caring about the content and will only worry about making money. That effectively turns their submissions into spam, trying to have high stats/posts rather than quality ones.
Digg has nothing to worry about from them. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14dude, when will all of these sites learn that the true power of digg is the design, ease and simplicity of the application itself. This site is all over the place, its like yahoo.com's front page as compared to google's.
- oOLiquidNightOo, on 10/12/2007, -3/+15"Digg is growing exponentially"
growing exponentially, isn't necessarily synonymous with getter better .. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14My time's not worth that kind of chump-change.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11I don't know, I get a nice paycheck every month for actively participating at work...
- SharinganBob, on 10/12/2007, -2/+13Wow, that's probably the ugliest site I've ever seen.
- shatters, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11It seems only fair. Digg and YouTube cash in on our work as it is.
- iamnos, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Not everyone is in it for the money. Look at slashdot. Same general idea, been around for a lot longer than digg, and still going strong. Simply put, users get out of the site what they put into it. I've been around on slashdot for a umber of years, and love the discussion that takes place there. Its not going to die anytime soon, and likely, neither will digg. There are other motivational factors than money.
- unibomber999, on 10/12/2007, -4/+13you assume they work for nothing. I'm sure a front page article is for sale if you wanted one.
- PAJK, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Digg and YouTube cashes in from your "work"? YouTube - they give you free bandwidth, and a free audience of millions of users. You owe them! LOL.
Digg - the site is supposed to be fun! Submitting a story is not "work". It's contributing to the community, to a site that you use regularly for your enjoyment.
Why do people not put a price on entertainment on the internet? Digg owes me nothing, and it owes you nothing. I don't pay a dime to use Digg, yet I use it every single day, and I learn a lot from it. Surely, if anything, I owe them?
Anyways...Digg killer? Well, of course not. - Konquest, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Check some facts... Alexa ain't the cold truth, but it gives a good estimate... And ignore the April 2006 jump, it's probably a change in alexa's counting method...
http://traffic.alexa.com/graph?u=digg.com&u=&u=&u=&u=&r=3y&y=p&z=3&h=800&w=1000 - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5swOhio...have you seen the crap that makes it to the front page of Digg NOW? Many that get here only because of underhanded digging tactics. It is already happening on Digg, so it obviously would not be the getting paid part that would bring the crappy SPAM, far left or right politics, etc. to the front page of a site like this.
- DigitalPimptres, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6/agreed
Digg.com is nothing if not addictingly beautiful in all its simplicity. - coolian, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5"The Real Digg Killer"
What are you on, dope? - DragonAura, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3From the site:
Digital Journal makes Front Page [digg]
Posted 1 hour ago by Brandon and viewed 229 times
Read the full story here:
http://www.digg.com/tech_news/Readers_Cash_in_on_Social_Network_The_Real_Digg_Killer
Digital Journal has made the front page of Digg.com a popular news website.
Digital Journal is paying members to provide content. Yes! paying members to blog about news-worthy stories. Today, Digital Journal has been featured on Digg.com an extremely relative website that may soon become Digital Journals largest competitor.
Support Digital Journal and visit the link provided (and digg the story) so that Digital Journal may stay on the front page of Digg.com longer.
25/25 users found this article important - Hegemony, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Considering how much people complain on digg about how things work behind the scenes I can't imagine how pissed they'd get if they were trying to get paid for it. This will fail for that reason.
- dsander, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4I guess they'll "digg-it-al'" instead of digg'n. I'm thinking another copy that'll die soon.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -8/+11This site is great! Now all the egotistical ***** on Digg that are whining that this site or that site ought to pay them for all the "work" they're doing can just ***** off and go join this thing, taking their constant whining with them. Good riddance!
- jdgtrplyr, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Never even heard of Digital Journal...will have to check this out for myself.
I can already tell that I will most likely still dig Digg more ;) - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+6What a surprise! Another Digg "killer"!
- AudioPhil3, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I like it how one can make an “arbitrary donation” to a users account. This makes Digital Journals site work better for the reader. E.g. Lets say I am a user called ‘DellAdmin’, and other users posted up articles about some awesome new Dell flatscreens. I would defiantly keep encouraging them to do that, with small arbitrary donations.
And it would be interesting to pay an arbitrary donation to a user, to see them climb the ranking list of earners for the month. Because, their stories would obviously be far more interesting than other, lower earning bottom feeders.
/sarcasm.
The time I spend on the Internet, is not for sale.
Please, please don’t turn the Internets into a capitalist society. - epitaphic, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4So instead of talking about digg, how about we talk about the friggin topic at hand, namely DigitalJournal's revenue sharing. Anyone know how its being done? Multiple google adsense IDs on a page?
- mikeyj10, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Let me know when your rolling in all that dough.
- scott1, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Did I miss something?
It seemed like yesterday that diggers where very loyal to digg and now they seem to think that digg is a rip off. - nwkeeley, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1haha I like how this story made their front page with a description like this:
Digital Journal has made the front page of Digg.com a popular news website.
Do you really have to explain what digg.com is if you are posting to digital journal?
Their model won't stop people from coming to digg because they can make 75 cents on digital journal - matthawaii, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"you assume they work for nothing. I'm sure a front page article is for sale if you wanted one."
I never thought of it that way......it is very easy to find out who gives you the best chance to make the front page.
Just like the eBay consultants who help you with the title, etc.
Black market listings! - ToxicGas, on 08/11/2008, -1/+1yeah ... digg kept it simple and fresh ... that looks old school
- muffins, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Simple as this - its too late to take down digg. The popularity is already too high. The only way to get people to leave digg would be to pay amounts of money that no company can reasonably afford.
Also if you have to pay your users to post content, is it really a social network? - PantsSupreme, on 10/12/2007, -8/+7Good idea!!! Digg model just benefits Kevin Rose and co. All these heavy submitters and intelligent comment posters who are the heart and soul of the site get absolutely nothing for their hard work.
- IanRReardon, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1No one is killing Digg anytime soon, and its really simple. What makes Digg? The community, and Digg has the largest. It's not the news posting from a small % of users that makes digg valuable. It's the "digging" by the millions of us who probably never even submit a story. I don't see how paying people to post adds ANY value at all to their site. If anything it removes value. People are just going to post for the sake of posting.
If someone really wants to replace Digg then they have to offer a better product based on features/algorithm or whatever.
The only reason digg will die, as others have said, is because of digg itself. There has to be a balanced, broad array of diggers, and not just tech nerds and crazy liberals. An unbalanced community, like an unbalanced (single party) government, leads to corruption. - greenbox, on 10/12/2007, -8/+6the only thing that will kill digg is digg itself. i don't see that anytime soon so stop assuming someone else can stop this site from growing just because you might make a few bucks from submitting somehting. besides this sites interface is kind of cluttered and noisy.
- kritik, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2The submitted articles on digg are some of the best and it keeps me informed on many of a subject if it was not for digg i would never of come across some of these websites which have entertained me and informed me greatly.
- destraynor, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1Is this not exactly what NewsVine.com tried and failed with.
- unicornhunter, on 10/12/2007, -7/+3Paying for people to participle has NEVER worked in the long term.
- pianomahnn, on 10/12/2007, -6/+0Maybe the growth of good articles leveled off, but the quantity of pure choss has not. Take this article, for example.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -12/+6Digg is growing exponentially? Are you stuck in 2005? Digg levled off a long time ago.
- betterth, on 10/12/2007, -11/+4Everyone tries to pay people for submissions, and label themselves the "digg killer".
It's been happening for years. Oddly, Digg is growing exponentially.
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