Posted on 09/07/2006 1:49:52 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Are Digg’s democratic values in peril? Complaints have emerged that a small group of users are manipulating which news stories appear on the website’s homepage.
Digg is a website that promotes news stories submitted by users. If enough users “digg” a story, the article will make it to the site’s homepage and heaps of traffic will flow to the link in the story. Digg prides itself on using a different methodology than the hierarchical editorial systems that other news sites employ.
But one blogger took a close look at Digg’s home page this week and concluded that a small group of influential Digg users, working in concert, were responsible for a significant percentage of the news stories on the page. The complaint follows accusations that political bloggers in rival camps were acting to remove each others’ posts that had been digged.
Some suggest that serious Digg users, who are rated based on how highly ranked their stories become, simply spend more time searching the web and are more successful finding articles to digg.
But that argument was clearly not good enough for Digg co-founder Kevin Rose. While noting that users ought to recommend each others’ stories to share and promote news that is important to them, he wrote in his blog that Digg was changing the algorithm used to rank top stories on the home page.
“I can say that a key update is coming soon,” wrote Kevin Rose in his blog. “This algorithm update will look at the unique digging diversity of the individuals digging the story. Users that follow a gaming pattern will have less promotion weight. This doesn't mean that the story won't be promoted, it just means that a more diverse pool of individuals will be need to deem the story homepage-worthy.”
All this was a bit too much for Digg’s top digger, known as P9. In a scathing post, he accused Mr. Rose of pissing all over the site’s top diggers and announced that he would no longer support Digg.
Be aware that GE uses the term "leftist moonbat" to describe anyone who disagrees with him, especially the ones who routinely document his lies.
This makes it especially ironic, then, that he is the one talking about Stalinist purges.
I think we first need to clean out the one guy who doesn't believe that copyright holders should be able to decide how their work is distributed, and who purports to have computer and security knowledge but doesn't even know of one of the most famous network security tools or the identity of its author.
1. Admitting that your statement that SCO (The SCO Group) was a UNIX company that went downhill by involving itself with Linux is factually wrong.
2. Apologizing for calling me a liar when I said truthfully that Planned Parenthood's web site runs on Windows (including the fact that it sends IIS headers and is run on a Windows-only content management system).
GOPJ, for reference, I am one of those "moonbats" who are always trying to correct GE's lies and constantly being called liars by GE for telling the truth. He always evades or disappears when cornered. The above are two concrete examples.
It's alive!!!!
LOL
Still waiting...
He'll run away....again
Then again, it's been All Quiet on the Western Front for the past bit...
LOL
that's because he was fighting all of the damn ***COPYLEFTISTS*** on his own....
This is true...
He's a busy man ya know
LOL
Busy with what...
We don't want to know....but he'll assure us that it is important......
Can anything done by a bureaucrat be important?
well sometimes....
I guess....
Maybe when he's escorting the Janitors or something....
Or when he's on one of his 20 minute smoke breaks (6 per day at least)....
LOL
I don't digg it.
who knows?
yeah exactly....
*chirp* *chirp* *chirp* *chirp*
GE yet again punches, is pummeled with the facts, and retreats. IOW, please ignore his previous misrepresentation of the situation.
Ping.
All I know is Sarah Lane did herself a world of favor by dumping Kevin Rose for Brendan Moran.
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