Comments on: Did Digg change their algo to punish their most popular users? http://www.sampletheweb.com/2006/08/09/did-digg-change-their-algo/ Whispering sweet nothings into the internet's ear since May of 2002. Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:36:27 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: The Mu Life » Should You Still Contribute To Digg? http://www.sampletheweb.com/2006/08/09/did-digg-change-their-algo/comment-page-1/#comment-16427 The Mu Life » Should You Still Contribute To Digg? Fri, 08 Sep 2006 11:17:04 +0000 http://www.sampletheweb.com/2006/08/09/did-digg-change-their-algo/#comment-16427 [...] The statistics that jesusphreak was exposing are nothing new. DuggTrends has covered it before, and so have many other outlets. Most of Digg’s front-page content is coming from a small and very active user-base. Remember the 1% rule anyone? Every time the topic came up, Digg was successful in squashing it, even though there was statistical evidence to back it up. This time, however, Kevin Rose decided to throw all sensibility out the window in dealing with the situation. According to Kevin Rose, the best way to reward these hard working users is to publicly declare that Digg is going to emasculate them. I mention publicizing it because it appears that Digg has internally done it once already. Kevin Rose says: [...] [...] The statistics that jesusphreak was exposing are nothing new. DuggTrends has covered it before, and so have many other outlets. Most of Digg’s front-page content is coming from a small and very active user-base. Remember the 1% rule anyone? Every time the topic came up, Digg was successful in squashing it, even though there was statistical evidence to back it up. This time, however, Kevin Rose decided to throw all sensibility out the window in dealing with the situation. According to Kevin Rose, the best way to reward these hard working users is to publicly declare that Digg is going to emasculate them. I mention publicizing it because it appears that Digg has internally done it once already. Kevin Rose says: [...]

]]> By: Search Engines http://www.sampletheweb.com/2006/08/09/did-digg-change-their-algo/comment-page-1/#comment-12847 Search Engines Thu, 10 Aug 2006 06:46:44 +0000 http://www.sampletheweb.com/2006/08/09/did-digg-change-their-algo/#comment-12847 It IS important that newbies NOT be dissuaded or disenchanted by NOT getting many Diggs - or never getting on the Homepage - with high quality Stories. Perhaps the newer Algos could give a very slight "Push" based on the less "ties" a user has. But, on the other hand, it could also be argued by some, that top diggers have "earned" their reliability - and should benefit. It IS important that newbies NOT be dissuaded or disenchanted by NOT getting many Diggs – or never getting on the Homepage – with high quality Stories.

Perhaps the newer Algos could give a very slight “Push” based on the less “ties” a user has. But, on the other hand, it could also be argued by some, that top diggers have “earned” their reliability – and should benefit.

]]> By: Rose http://www.sampletheweb.com/2006/08/09/did-digg-change-their-algo/comment-page-1/#comment-12845 Rose Thu, 10 Aug 2006 06:00:54 +0000 http://www.sampletheweb.com/2006/08/09/did-digg-change-their-algo/#comment-12845 Someone told me that it was against Digg's Toss to post to a community forum and ask for your friends of that forum to join your friend list. Is this true? Someone told me that it was against Digg’s Toss to post to a community forum and ask for your friends of that forum to join your friend list. Is this true?

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