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Digg Finally Admits the Auto-Bury Exists

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Re: Digg Finally Admits the Auto-Bury Exists

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Post by endtime »

jwesley wrote: post #13
katz wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"talking armies of Indians and Eastern Europeans" The problem with Reddit is the army of intolerant atheists and the anti-GOP circle jerk. If you just take a look at the front page you will see that this is true. American politics is really not that interesting after the 10th GOP bashing blog-spam article.

Most web communities are politically polarized in one way or the other. If you do not like the political stories, Reddit allows you to unsubscribe from the politics sub-Reddit. Or just don't visit the site.

Unfortunately, people don't always use subreddits. People always think their pet issues belong in general, or perhaps worldnews.

And it's not just political stories that are the problem with reddit. It's the fanatic tone that many users take in the comments of stories that really shouldn't be polarizing.

Re: Digg Finally Admits the Auto-Bury Exists

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Post by ojbyrne »

jrockway wrote: post #17
ojbyrne wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not if he disclosed that fact.

I personally wouldn't care even if he kept it a secret. I mean, it's a social news site. You have no right to be heard here. (You should hear the complaints I get when I delete comments from my blog. "Free speech!!1!!1". If you want to call me a dumbass, get your own blog. I hear they're free.) Anyway, if the super-secret auto-kill ruins the site, I will go to one of the other one hundred million (or so). Otherwise,…

HN has never advertised that it's "democratizing media" though.

Re: Digg Finally Admits the Auto-Bury Exists

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Post by brandnewlow »

Devilboy wrote: post #19

About 30 minutes ago this story hit the front page of Digg. Now I can't find it anywhere... X-Files theme song The main thing that keeps me from loving Digg is that there's no way to block users and their submissions. If only I could block the small number of spammy accounts making up 60% of the front page - and then see the next most popular stories instead!

Can't you just make a new Digg front page with their API + some RSS + hackery?

A user creates an account and can then create filters for the stories that appear on this new front page you make, otherwise it's a total mirror content wise. heck, direct the links over to Digg instead of the original sites to head of criticism.

Re: Digg Finally Admits the Auto-Bury Exists

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Post by TomOfTTB »

jrockway wrote: post #18
TomOfTTB wrote: post #9

In the spirit of this news, I'd like to make an admission of my own. I...Post on Hacker News. (The game is still "admitting painfully obvious stuff that everyone already knows" right?)

Clever, but Digg is that way ------>

I think you missed some irony

In my original post I was trying to amusingly (emphasis on trying) point out the fact that people don’t admit things like this until everyone already knows them which in turn makes the admission a moot point. I thought it would be funny (emphasis on thought) to do so in the "Digg-Style" sarcastic tone that most of the posts there are in.

But the real thing that makes Digg an unpleasant place is not the sarcasm but the mean spiritedness that the place can often take on. My comments were illuminating an idea so I really wasn't attacking anyone. Which is when you attacked me.

So really your comment is far more "Digg-like" than mine was

Re: Digg Finally Admits the Auto-Bury Exists

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Post by diN0bot »

katz wrote: post #12
jwesley wrote: post #5

Digg is such a mess. The 1% of users who control the content and make up 50% of pageviews are completely at odds with where the owners want to take the site. There is so much payola going on behind the scenes. Not just on Digg, but Reddit, StumbleUpon, and any other social site that sends traffic. I'm talking armies of Indians and Eastern Europeans who do nothing all day but exchange votes and push stories. Eventuall…

"talking armies of Indians and Eastern Europeans" The problem with Reddit is the army of intolerant atheists and the anti-GOP circle jerk. If you just take a look at the front page you will see that this is true. American politics is really not that interesting after the 10th GOP bashing blog-spam article.

there's reddit news outside proggit?! in seriousness, though, reddit's category system is broken because it lacks inheritance. people should be encouraged to provide the most specific leaf categories that apply when submitting articles. viewers may then customize as broadly or eclectically as they wish (ui can do the abstraction, whereas in the database every user has true/false on leaf nodes). auto-discovering categories might be useful. the fail point is still on ui, not performance, imho.

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Post by pg »

jwesley wrote: post #5

Digg is such a mess. The 1% of users who control the content and make up 50% of pageviews are completely at odds with where the owners want to take the site. There is so much payola going on behind the scenes. Not just on Digg, but Reddit, StumbleUpon, and any other social site that sends traffic. I'm talking armies of Indians and Eastern Europeans who do nothing all day but exchange votes and push stories. Eventuall…

I don't know about Digg, but are you sure there are armies of paid minions upvoting stuff on Reddit? That sort of thing is not hard to detect, and the guys running Reddit are pretty good programmers.

Re: Digg Finally Admits the Auto-Bury Exists

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Post by [deleted] »

jwesley wrote: post #5

Digg is such a mess. The 1% of users who control the content and make up 50% of pageviews are completely at odds with where the owners want to take the site. There is so much payola going on behind the scenes. Not just on Digg, but Reddit, StumbleUpon, and any other social site that sends traffic. I'm talking armies of Indians and Eastern Europeans who do nothing all day but exchange votes and push stories. Eventuall…

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