So I got my Digg Alpha invite yesterday, and was SO not impressed. Digg is going to change a lot. Now your feeds are going to come to you via what your friends Digg. My friend Brian hit the nail on the head by saying; “Basically it’s the Twitter RT function.” Yeah..he’s right. It is.
Not to pick on anyone at all, but let’s say I hit my news feed section, and Louiebaur has voted on a ton of submissions by publishers, I am going to see a ton of Louie’s votes. That’s how it is going to feed you. You see what your friends voted on and their relative interests…wait…hmm…”Your Mixx” anyone?
It’s no secret Digg has been scraping ideas from the underdog known as Mixx, but damn. Now they are scraping ideas from Twitter, Facebook, you name it. Nothing is sacred.
One thing that is semi cool is the ability to import you Google, Facebook, and Twitter contacts. But that’s about it.
Digg has shown that now it is all about the publishers. You can see that when you sign into the New Digg, they push publisher recommendations on you. Digg used to be competitive and fun. You would compete to pop a story, and hit the coveted side bar. MrBabyman dominates in this arena. Now Digg has gone the way of the publisher. So, no longer will power users wield the power they once had to pop a sub, but a power user will influence the feeds their friends see and so on.
To me voting sites are losing their way, plagued with spamming issues and user gaming. I just say this, a few bad apples can spoil the bunch. You throw the bad apple out and away from the others. Instead of putting in a little ban work, Digg has decided to make things easier for themselves, suck up to publishers, and make the site less fun for it’s users.
This is just my opinion…
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Five Years of Digg…and counting - Top News, Music, and Sports - The Blog Conglomerate added these pithy words on Jun 30 10 at 3:04 pmSounds like the perfect time for a Digg Boycott.
The Dude Dean added these pithy words on
Jun 30 10 at
10:11 am
gbudavid added these pithy words on I was good power user but digg personal and own rule is really fuck me..I dn’t know who is the running digg like a driver..but i am totally against digg mechanism. My id was excellent and i was doing well but digg suck. always send to one mail to all..you are doing busines here. Digg has not any term and conditions. One IP for One Digg id. I have obeyed one email for one id but one IP for one id. This is really bull shitt..Digg always be doing partialty and so . I hate digg.
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Jun 30 10 at
9:18 pm
