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- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Another whiny blog entry, criticizing digg to get to the home page. Marked as spam.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4If digg took away there comments, think about how much feedback the author/site would be missing. Let me better explain, as the article fails to point out:
If a digg user is unable to provide feedback/comment through digg, then the only place for them to leave feedback is at that site itself. For one, some cites don't have an option for comments; for two, you may be requiring each digg user to maintain multiple usernames//passwords on different sites in order to leave feedback in the site does not allow anonymous feedback.
Personally, I like the digg comments. I comment on lots of digg submissions yet never actually 'digg' them. And if I were required maintain multiple usernames//passwords to leave feedback/comment, then I wouldn't go to the extent of managing multiple usernames//passwords. But since I can leave feedback/comment on digg, I do. - raj3, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3This would only make sense if Digg's only purpose was to give traffic to blog author's. In theory, Digg is for the benefit of Digg's users. And while it's possible that removing commenting from Digg would drive more traffic to the original site, that isn't really the point.
This guy is probably already getting plenty traffic from writing Digg-critical articles which eventually get homepaged. Why complain about Digg making you lose traffic when you wouldn't have gotten it in the first place if not for Digg? - doktorrocket, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2"Do the man a favor and reply back on his page."
Or, do as you please, and reply here instead. As I said elsewhere, the public is free to discuss these articles in the forum of their choosing. Maybe they don't want to bother with logins for a hundred different sites. Maybe they like the digg community better. Maybe they like the comment system better. When they cut-n-paste the article in it's entirety, there's a legitimate beef. But the discussion of the article belongs to whoever chooses to discuss it, and should be posted wherever they please. - EliW, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3No Comment
- Skitzzo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1There should be way for a site to show the comments on their site. For example, if an article is dugg, the site owner would have the option of importing the comments onto their site. I'm no coder, but I would imagine this could be done in much the same way the Digg This buttons work that show you how many diggs the story has received.
The fact that you'd have to register for each blog or site you comment on is a valid one and my solution would solve that. Just my $0.02 - MistressRoninS, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I commented on his page in my usual novel format.
I think that he is misunderstanding the source of commenting and what makes a comment happen. Simply wanting comments does not a comment make. Eliminating commenting on Digg is not going to magically bring comments to his site or other sites.
Having a site interesting enough to hold the attention of a person and evoke their interest enough to comment is likely to succeed more.
Questions he should ask himself about why he doesn't have comments and other sites do:
How easy is it to comment?, Does one have to register? Is there a email approval required or annoying security question? Does the person care enough to even come back to see the replies to his comment? Does he even care enough to remark?
Community establishes commenting.
Digg.com's community is here because the web site has established this community by making it a convenient and interesting place to be and return to. A bond is made, people care about leaving feedback because the feedback shapes the place they spend a lot of time in. - aahpandasrun, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Digg should change the way the comment system works by only allowing people to "digg up" comments. It helps to remove a lot of the negativity and feeling that people are censoring unpopular views.
- netburnr, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Another whiny blog entry, criticizing digg to get to the home page. Marked as spam.
+1 - Skitzzo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1He's not the one complaining - the author of the site is....
- Br0wn, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1You are complaining about comments but want us to reply and see our feedback?
- Skitzzo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Another possibility would be for Digg to begin some sort of revenue sharing system, but frankly I dont see that happening and could open up a whole new can of worms...
- Skitzzo, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Michael, I think you're pretty much right on.
Here are my ideas: http://digg.com/tech_news/A_Response_To_Digg_Listings_in_Google_Results - MichaelDotNet, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1The issue, of course, is that people who comment on digg and never surf to the original site (even if they click to the dugg site, it may not be the originating site) don't contribute to the revenue of the content creator, lessing incentive for creation of content. I proposed a sort of Social Discussion site that could aggregate conversations and still display the original site's content (including ads)...just a thought.
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