Ten of the highest ranking users on Digg (including myself) just received a very generous offer from bringpopcorn.com. It seems that Alex Hunter, the operator of that site, desires Digg’s front page juice so feverishly that he’s willing to pay $500 to get it.
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I just noticed something kind of funny. Go to Google, type in “digg clone site” (without quotes) and hit the “I’m Feeling Lucky” button.
Good times.
This week, Digg made a big change to their promotion algorithm. At first glance, it appears that their change has heavily handicapped the top users. Submissions by people in the top 30 took upwards of 100 diggs to be promoted this week, whereas other users’ submissions were promoted at previous, usual levels (around 30 - […]
Digg seems to be caught between a rock and a hard place. Following the recent controversy where their top users were virtually tarred and feathered, they promptly issued a statement that they are planning to make changes which will serve to maintain a level playing field for all users. This statement caused many of Digg’s […]
Wired interviewed me regarding the recent controversy on Digg.
I just wanted to re-iterate the most important point I can think to make on this topic: keep your eye on the ball. The ball, in this case, being the content.
Don’t bury submissions based on who submitted them. You aren’t solving anything by doing that. If you […]
Mark this day on your calendar, folks. This is the day when the division between Digg’s top 100 users and the other 499,900 users was pushed far enough for Kevin Rose to actually weigh in on the issue. The result? User p9s50W5k4GUD2c6 has said goodbye to Digg. In a comment on a submission by Kevin […]
Good news, everyone. Soon we wont have to select which category a story goes in when submitting to Digg.
I posted a story on Digg yesterday for the first time in what feels like forever. You can check it out here. Oh wait, no you can’t. Why? Because it’s topic changed without warning.
I emailed their support […]
After having used Netscape heavily for over a month now, I have noticed numerous differences between it and Digg. One such difference is that Netscape does not have a method for users to mark stories as lame. Anchors have the final say on when a story is removed from the system. This is pretty key […]
Alex Weidmann presents proof that Digg is replacing the URLs of duplicate stories with those of original stories. He also asks the question: what else are moderators doing to our submissions without us knowing?
According to some users, submissions are having their categories changed without notice. While speaking with a user by the name of Aidenag, […]
PiggNation is a weekly video podcast which discusses the most popular stories of Digg’s World News & Politics section. It stars Steven Christe and Dan Rummel, a couple of guys who get drunk and wax philosophical about the hottest stories, with laptops in hand.
Sound familiar? It should. It was inspired by Diggnation, the weekly video […]
