The Politics of Digg
November 06, 2006 |
A few months back, Digg was something big! When next you’re roaming the blogosphere and you find an article or post that you really like, if it has a “Digg This!” icon or link make sure you click it, because the more diggs the article gets the more people get to read it. Start giving bloggers the recognition they deserve by digging their posts, if we all start doing this now maybe someday you’ll get the recognition you deserve. But the traffic never came.
Digg continues to grow, claiming 20 million visitors per month and around 400,000 users daily.
To keep abuse in check, they are changing the core algorithm to kill the spammers but that in turn has made top users pretty pissed.
The most recent changes to the Digg algorithm are aimed at grouping users who tend to act as a single voting block, effectively neutralizing their ability to move stories to the home page by simply acting together. One user, noting that the result was a significant decline in the home page stories by top users, said “it looks like the Digg staff is looking to get rid of its frequent posters.”
