Why the Digg Community Hates You
January 6th, 2007 by Michael Gray in Social NetworksIf you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Read my top posts or learn more about Michael Gray. Want more frequent updates follow me on Twitter. Thanks for visiting!
Jason pretty much nails it on this one, and if really want to understand social communities, not just abuse them you should read his post Will digg die the death of 1,000 cuts?
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January 6th, 2007 at 5:27 am
Did you see this poor guy?
http://www.chandlerkent.com/stories/2007/1/06.php
http://digg.com/tech_news/The_Most_Hated_Comment_on_Digg
Talk about people at digg trying to alienate new users.
January 6th, 2007 at 8:54 am
Calcanis was commenting on one of my posts about the destruction of Digg via Digg clones.
The original post is here http://www.cornwallseo.com/search/index.php/2007/01/04/is-this-the-thing-that-will-destroy-digg/
January 6th, 2007 at 1:19 pm
Netscape is just a nightmare at this point. There are a couple of things it’s still good for but for the most part it’s unusable.
mad4 - I saw that this morning and actually wrote a post about it - good stuff.
January 6th, 2007 at 7:31 pm
Couldn’t digg allow for biasing? Like in your profile you could select from a list of biases that included (politics, entertainment, tech etc) and then it could automatically slants everything that way and potentially give your comments / stories more value underneath those categories. That way if someone with a tech bias tried to troll out your political story there down vote would be less damaging. I don’t necessarily think digg would have to create new domains, just enable sub communities to form within the young / tech group that is currently so active there. I think biasing or a way to personalize digg to fit certain demographics could be the answer.
January 6th, 2007 at 7:45 pm
mad4 thanks for the link to the “digg” “spammer” I must have missed that story in my daily reading. I wonder if that guy was really spamming digg and then just spun it as a poor me story, although his site has no monetization that I can see so I’m not sure how we would benefit, although all those nice links will inevitable raise his site’s page rank / ranking/ and value. I wonder if we’ll see adsense splashed all over his webpage later on. I’m being too cynical now, probably just a noob who didn’t realize how much his comment looked like spam being attacked by the pissed off diggers.