Comments on: Sweet - Digg gets diggable comments http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2006/03/04/sweet-digg-gets-diggable-comments/ ... at the intersection of media, technology, business and the web Thu, 21 Aug 2008 21:03:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Mathew http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2006/03/04/sweet-digg-gets-diggable-comments/#comment-626 Mathew Sun, 05 Mar 2006 04:03:44 +0000 http://www.mathewingram.com/work/index.php/2006/03/04/sweet-digg-gets-diggable-comments/#comment-626 Thanks for the comment, Eric -- and for pointing out that Reddit has the "mod" comment feature too. I've updated the post to reflect that. Mathew Thanks for the comment, Eric — and for pointing out that Reddit has the “mod” comment feature too. I’ve updated the post to reflect that.

Mathew

]]> By: Eric Berlin http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2006/03/04/sweet-digg-gets-diggable-comments/#comment-625 Eric Berlin Sun, 05 Mar 2006 01:28:32 +0000 http://www.mathewingram.com/work/index.php/2006/03/04/sweet-digg-gets-diggable-comments/#comment-625 I couldn't agree more, Mathew. I'm not a big Slashdot guy, so I first experienced the ability to vote comments up or down via Reddit. Reddit is currently my favorite "social bookmarking" website, mostly because the popular stories are interesting and range outside of tech-obsessed world. The ability to vote down a comment that annoys me or vote up a comment I agree with gives me a strangely satisfied feeling, almost akin to the feeling one would feel if we were able to talk directly to those who cut us off on the freeway or, alternatively, allow us to change lanes. Anyone want to guess which happens more down here in LA? So I think Digg made a great decision to add this feature. It will be very interesting to see how much this affects the attitudes of commenters, who can be especially vicious on these kinds of sites. I couldn’t agree more, Mathew. I’m not a big Slashdot guy, so I first experienced the ability to vote comments up or down via Reddit. Reddit is currently my favorite “social bookmarking” website, mostly because the popular stories are interesting and range outside of tech-obsessed world.

The ability to vote down a comment that annoys me or vote up a comment I agree with gives me a strangely satisfied feeling, almost akin to the feeling one would feel if we were able to talk directly to those who cut us off on the freeway or, alternatively, allow us to change lanes.

Anyone want to guess which happens more down here in LA?

So I think Digg made a great decision to add this feature. It will be very interesting to see how much this affects the attitudes of commenters, who can be especially vicious on these kinds of sites.

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