Comments on: Is Digg getting better, or worse? http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2006/12/18/is-digg-getting-better-or-worse/ ... at the intersection of media, technology, business and the web Wed, 10 Mar 2010 03:19:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: engtech http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2006/12/18/is-digg-getting-better-or-worse/comment-page-1/#comment-113227 engtech Wed, 20 Dec 2006 01:47:19 +0000 http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2006/12/18/is-digg-getting-better-or-worse/#comment-113227 My biggest issue is the commenters. I like the quote from the lifehacker people that describes online communities: “Also, netiquette in public forums has a lot to do with the content around which the community is centered. Lifehacker’s posts set out to help folks, so in kind, our readers want to help us and each other back. Digg is a popularity contest of oneupmanship. Gawker is all about making fun of things, so its readers mock each other and it right back in the comments. Karma’s a boomerang.” but I can't help but notice that Lifehacker also restricts who can comment. :) I wrote on the subject of trolls today, nothing that insightful although I did find interesting foreshadowing on the Natali del Conte / TechCrunch split. http://engtech.wordpress.com/2006/12/20/the-internet-is-for-trolls/ My biggest issue is the commenters. I like the quote from the lifehacker people that describes online communities:

“Also, netiquette in public forums has a lot to do with the content around which the community is centered. Lifehacker’s posts set out to help folks, so in kind, our readers want to help us and each other back. Digg is a popularity contest of oneupmanship. Gawker is all about making fun of things, so its readers mock each other and it right back in the comments. Karma’s a boomerang.”

but I can’t help but notice that Lifehacker also restricts who can comment. :)

I wrote on the subject of trolls today, nothing that insightful although I did find interesting foreshadowing on the Natali del Conte / TechCrunch split.
http://engtech.wordpress.com/2006/12/20/the-internet-is-for-trolls/

]]> By: Mathew Ingram http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2006/12/18/is-digg-getting-better-or-worse/comment-page-1/#comment-112785 Mathew Ingram Tue, 19 Dec 2006 14:22:07 +0000 http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2006/12/18/is-digg-getting-better-or-worse/#comment-112785 I agree, Karoli. There is some good there, but it is often obscured by all of the crap and sophomoric comments. I agree, Karoli. There is some good there, but it is often obscured by all of the crap and sophomoric comments.

]]> By: Karoli http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2006/12/18/is-digg-getting-better-or-worse/comment-page-1/#comment-112621 Karoli Tue, 19 Dec 2006 10:35:49 +0000 http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2006/12/18/is-digg-getting-better-or-worse/#comment-112621 I took Digg off my feeds because half their posts were inane and the comments even more so. It seemed to me that the place was inhabited by high school kids who roved in gangs digging and burying according to how drunk Kevin Rose and Alex Alrecht were on that week's podcast. I was a huge fan of both Digg and the podcast for the better part of a year, but as I began to watch the way digg was being gamed and overtaken by trolls, the less I felt like spending time there. I think Digg is a great concept. I just don't think anarchy is an effective way to monitor a website. I took Digg off my feeds because half their posts were inane and the comments even more so. It seemed to me that the place was inhabited by high school kids who roved in gangs digging and burying according to how drunk Kevin Rose and Alex Alrecht were on that week’s podcast. I was a huge fan of both Digg and the podcast for the better part of a year, but as I began to watch the way digg was being gamed and overtaken by trolls, the less I felt like spending time there.

I think Digg is a great concept. I just don’t think anarchy is an effective way to monitor a website.

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