Comments on: Digg Town Hall: No “secret moderators”

By: mathewi

mathewi — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 20:34:02 +0000

I think those are some of the things that Jay and Kevin said they were
trying to work on -- responding to people whose sites had been
blacklisted incorrectly, or whose stuff was routinely duped or
whatever. How successful they will be remains to be seen, I guess --
and there's no question they need more customer support.

On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 9:26 AM, Disqus

By: Bob Caswell

Bob Caswell — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 19:25:52 +0000

Mathew-

Regardless of how the magic algo works or doesn't work, there seems to be a common theme:

If you're a new or relatively unknown site, don't get on digg's front page too often. If you're Engadget or Ars, you're welcome to the digg front page anytime even if your posts are just one paragraph and simply link to the real story (that would be Engadget). For every other site in the world, that's often considered blog spam. But Engadget gets away with it every day, and diggers love it.

Also, this just goes to show how easy it is for someone unaffiliated with a site to help blacklist it. You have some good stuff here, but if I wanted to get your site blacklisted it wouldn't be hard. I'd just submit a post of yours to digg, every day, shout to my friends about it, and wait for your blacklist to happen. All without you being involved...

For all the supposed "diversity" happening behind the scenes, there's little diversity in the outcome.

By: mathewi

mathewi — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 18:17:01 +0000

Yes, but Jay said that the "diversity" algorithms supposedly prevent a
small group of people from doing anything -- whether it's mass-Digging
of links, or mass-burying.

On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 1:24 AM, Disqus

By: mathewi

mathewi — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 18:15:02 +0000

Yes, you certainly are getting around :-)

On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 3:39 AM, Disqus

By: mathewi

mathewi — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 15:34:02 +0000