Digg further reduces the influence of top diggers
After removing the top user list, Digg has taken additional measures against identifying top Digg users, together with some cosmetic changes to Digg’s interface. Before, the number of stories promoted to the front page was visible next to the user names in the ‘Who dugg or blogged this story’ section. Now it’s gone, as you can see in this screenshot:
This number is still visible in user’s profile, however the overall ranking of users is no longer calculated. Now, many questions remain: is this just a change in visibility, or have these rankings been completely removed from the service? Will the influence of top Digg users now really diminish, or will the top users find a way to stay influential? Most importantly, will this improve the quality of stories that reach the front page, and change the bias towards certain subjects, or will the quality of stories on front page get worse? I will be monitoring Digg closely in the next weeks, hoping to get some answers.
February 5th, 2007 at 8:27 am
Dugg, vote it to the front page:
http://digg.com/tech_news/Digg_even_further_reduces_the_influence_of_top_diggers
February 5th, 2007 at 9:01 am
I would have dugg this but I seem to be on some form of Digg ‘probation’. I can’t login yet the site acts as if I am logged in (shows which friends dugg a story, clicking links opens new windows as it is set in my profile and my comment viewing thresholds all work.)
I don’t know if I just pissed someone off or what but I can’t interact with Digg today…
February 5th, 2007 at 9:26 am
Steve -
Try logging in with a different broswer - I was having the same type of issues in Firefox (getting lots of Digg is down pages) but everything seems to work fine in Opera. Strange…
February 5th, 2007 at 9:44 am
Chris,
I’m working with Digg support on this. My account is not flagged yet the system “half” logs me in. I can see friend related information (green stripe, friends who dugg this tab) but that is it… Real strange.
I hope to have this resolved soon as the only way for me to log in is to request a password change. That only lasts until I log out then I have to request another password change!
February 5th, 2007 at 9:51 am
Digg is slow as hell for me, but it works normally. Maybe it’s the changes in the interface that are causing problems?
February 5th, 2007 at 10:44 am
Heh. This story disappeared from all Digg top lists. It got buried pretty fast, something I wouldn’t expect from a pretty neutral story in an upcoming section.
February 5th, 2007 at 12:52 pm
Am I the only one who hears the sound of nails being hammered into a coffin?
February 5th, 2007 at 4:04 pm
I’m pretty sure the number in the bracket refers to the number of friends that person has, not the stories promoted to the homepage.
Maybe your screenshot has no people with friends on Digg.
February 5th, 2007 at 4:54 pm
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February 6th, 2007 at 12:01 am
Kevin: you’re wrong. It refers (refered) to the number of stories promoted.
February 28th, 2007 at 6:32 pm
Digg Removes Another Feature, Apocalypse Soon To Follow…
Stop the presses, er, keyboards. Remember that feature on digg that wasn’t always there and then came on and nobody noticed and then it was taken away and everyone started making noise about it because writing something big about digg nets you tr…
April 5th, 2007 at 1:41 am
[…] Netscape has announced that they are going to stop considering and even counting the number of stories promoted to the front page by individual users. Many have compared this to Digg’s removal of the top users list, and Muhammad at Pronet Advertising has an interesting analysis of the situation. […]
July 19th, 2007 at 12:21 am
[…] Although Digg did everything they could to diminish the influence of so-called “top diggers” - users who submit a lot and reach the Digg front page a lot - this group is continuing to be a strong force, responsible for almost half of Digg’s front page stories. Muhammad at PronetAdvertising has done an analysis of the data. […]
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The topic is quite trendy on the Internet at the moment. What do you pay the most attention to when choosing what to write about?
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