Comments on: Digg’s million users raise many questions http://franticindustries.com/2007/03/08/diggs-million-users-raise-many-questions/ Fri, 10 Oct 2008 19:42:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: » Digg at 1 million diggers: Digital media democracy or algorithm rule? | Digital Markets | ZDNet.com http://franticindustries.com/2007/03/08/diggs-million-users-raise-many-questions/#comment-42043 » Digg at 1 million diggers: Digital media democracy or algorithm rule? | Digital Markets | ZDNet.com Tue, 22 May 2007 22:36:29 +0000 http://franticindustries.com/2007/03/08/diggs-million-users-raise-many-questions/#comment-42043 [...] “Digg’s million users raise many questions,” as FranticIndustries underscores:  As much as Digg’s value, popularity, traffic and chances to sell for millions has increased, Digg has also been on a steady decline when one of its core strengths is concerned - news. With more users came more submissions, with more submissions came sensationalist titles, and with those all the important news is stuck in traffic…so they turn to submitting single Flickr images, “believe it or not” facts of dubious origin, and old stories that were around before Digg and were never submitted.This has hurt Digg, although perhaps not in the traffic/number of users kind of way. [...] […] “Digg’s million users raise many questions,” as FranticIndustries underscores:  As much as Digg’s value, popularity, traffic and chances to sell for millions has increased, Digg has also been on a steady decline when one of its core strengths is concerned - news. With more users came more submissions, with more submissions came sensationalist titles, and with those all the important news is stuck in traffic…so they turn to submitting single Flickr images, “believe it or not” facts of dubious origin, and old stories that were around before Digg and were never submitted.This has hurt Digg, although perhaps not in the traffic/number of users kind of way. […]

]]> By: john http://franticindustries.com/2007/03/08/diggs-million-users-raise-many-questions/#comment-11371 john Mon, 19 Mar 2007 15:14:25 +0000 http://franticindustries.com/2007/03/08/diggs-million-users-raise-many-questions/#comment-11371 The biggest problem with digg is the way users make duplicates of stories. So say you submit a big story in which an hour has past and no-one has dugg it then someone else then submits it three hours later they get dugg because more users are online and you don't thats hardly fare. The problem is they don't have people a digg headquarters, which digg good stories. They need to reward the user for submiting the story better and reward the user by policing the whole site by reporting duplicate storys and reporting spam. The biggest problem with digg is the way users make duplicates of stories.

So say you submit a big story in which an hour has past and no-one has dugg it then someone else then submits it three hours later they get dugg because more users are online and you don’t thats hardly fare.

The problem is they don’t have people a digg headquarters, which digg good stories. They need to reward the user for submiting the story better and reward the user by policing the whole site by reporting duplicate storys and reporting spam.

]]> By: Stan Schroeder http://franticindustries.com/2007/03/08/diggs-million-users-raise-many-questions/#comment-8432 Stan Schroeder Fri, 09 Mar 2007 16:08:39 +0000 http://franticindustries.com/2007/03/08/diggs-million-users-raise-many-questions/#comment-8432 @anonymous: there's an analysis of Reddit in the next article, I should have linked to that. But my comment about Reddit was not with a bad intention: I think that most people who visit Reddit would agree that it is more of a social content than a social news site. @anonymous: there’s an analysis of Reddit in the next article, I should have linked to that. But my comment about Reddit was not with a bad intention: I think that most people who visit Reddit would agree that it is more of a social content than a social news site.

]]> By: anoynmous http://franticindustries.com/2007/03/08/diggs-million-users-raise-many-questions/#comment-8415 anoynmous Fri, 09 Mar 2007 15:32:16 +0000 http://franticindustries.com/2007/03/08/diggs-million-users-raise-many-questions/#comment-8415 Why the subtle knock to Reddit? Seems a bit uncalled of really. Especially since no evidence at all is sited for any parallels between Reddit and Digg. Why the subtle knock to Reddit?

Seems a bit uncalled of really. Especially since no evidence at all is sited for any parallels between Reddit and Digg.

]]> By: gozino http://franticindustries.com/2007/03/08/diggs-million-users-raise-many-questions/#comment-8365 gozino Fri, 09 Mar 2007 13:57:14 +0000 http://franticindustries.com/2007/03/08/diggs-million-users-raise-many-questions/#comment-8365 The quality of Digg has fallen The quality of Digg has fallen

]]> By: Charbarred http://franticindustries.com/2007/03/08/diggs-million-users-raise-many-questions/#comment-8301 Charbarred Fri, 09 Mar 2007 09:56:08 +0000 http://franticindustries.com/2007/03/08/diggs-million-users-raise-many-questions/#comment-8301 It's good news for digg but I guess the hardcore diggers will be the ones to suffer. it's inevitable that digg will have to dumb down and become the MySpace of news. A lot of the core digg users will probably cry, but what can you do, digg has to pay the bills. It’s good news for digg but I guess the hardcore diggers will be the ones to suffer. it’s inevitable that digg will have to dumb down and become the MySpace of news. A lot of the core digg users will probably cry, but what can you do, digg has to pay the bills.

]]> By: Vincent http://franticindustries.com/2007/03/08/diggs-million-users-raise-many-questions/#comment-8077 Vincent Thu, 08 Mar 2007 20:48:19 +0000 http://franticindustries.com/2007/03/08/diggs-million-users-raise-many-questions/#comment-8077 very insightful. So how can I digg you? :p very insightful. So how can I digg you? :p

]]> By: Reddit learns about the importance of editors the hard way - franticindustries. http://franticindustries.com/2007/03/08/diggs-million-users-raise-many-questions/#comment-7972 Reddit learns about the importance of editors the hard way - franticindustries. Thu, 08 Mar 2007 16:02:00 +0000 http://franticindustries.com/2007/03/08/diggs-million-users-raise-many-questions/#comment-7972 [...] Features « Digg’s million users raise many questions [...] […] Features « Digg’s million users raise many questions […]

]]> By: kilps http://franticindustries.com/2007/03/08/diggs-million-users-raise-many-questions/#comment-7934 kilps Thu, 08 Mar 2007 14:57:34 +0000 http://franticindustries.com/2007/03/08/diggs-million-users-raise-many-questions/#comment-7934 I agree - Digg still has some great content - but I have been feeling of late that the type of content has been changing :( I agree - Digg still has some great content - but I have been feeling of late that the type of content has been changing :(

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