Digg is no longer user generated!
The good old days are dead, what happened to you digg? The site that used to be user generated has fallen prey to the big guns and has fallen victim to there own success. Its a shame how we always see the same domains being made popular although the storys are so boring that my grandma would not even read! Just to entail how diggs algo has changed I would like to show you, or maybe they do not have an algo at all I believe they just have a few editors that will post.
Just take a look at this for one example:
http://digg.com/tech_news/Plurk_The_Near_Perfect_Lifestreaming_Experience_Has_Arrived
Over 200+ diggs and the story still did not go popular. Why because digg is a sham, the days are gone where the users got to promote which story they love no matter where the source was from. Now BBC, CNN, Techcrunch and all the other big guns have a slice of digg and noone else can get there foot in. Yes you heard it right here digg and other big user generated sites are abusing there members to bring in the fast cash they are taking advantage of the web 2.0 bubble and if they dont sort themselves out they will end up bursting it.
An update this story has now been classed as inaccurate apparently by users!! hmmm I wonder how that can be when it got so many diggs in the first few hours. Again work of editors not users they have no right its not adult, gambling or spam, with this many diggs it should have gone popular but theres no way they would let that happen
The link is here http://digg.com/tech_news/Digg_is_no_longer_user_generated
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I agree. BBC and CNN don’t need digg to advertise their news. I dont see the point in digging a story that millions of people are going to see anyway. I did a post recently on the way that web 2.0 is going. Did not generate much interest. http://polybore.blogspot.com/2008/06/web-20-is-gigantic-pyramid-selling-scam.html
Hope your post fares better, generates some interest and helps waken people out of their apathy.
Very true people are probably going to visit CNN or BBC before they visit digg anyway. It has been submitted to digg but obviously will not get popular lol http://digg.com/tech_news/Digg_is_no_longer_user_generated
Ya know, I don’t mind the CNN/BBC stories so much when there’s something I’m interested in (I do go to Digg to find interesting news after all) but what really bugs me is that the little guy with a great story on a small blog has virtually no chance any more to land in the top stories, even when they get a lot of diggs. You used to be able to discover some cool blogs and websites and a small site could get a big promotion boost. Now it’s gotten so much harder unless you’re a big site. That’s the problem.
Very true digg is not user content anymore I think the mods just go through few times a day promoting stories themselves there no so called algo in place its all done manually
Hi again. I was wondering if you had a take on why people undigg an item. I’ve been speculating about this on my blog after a I lost whole bunch overnight for no discernible reason. http://polybore.blogspot.com/2008/06/mysterious-evaporating-diggs.html
You are right on. Digg is just another mechanism for big media to expand their reach. But, are there any other places like Digg that haver not been overrun yet?
Yeah, I have seen some URL changes in digg. It is very bad news for SEO’s.