Digg Finally Admits the Auto-Bury Exists
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Digg Finally Admits the Auto-Bury Exists
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Re: Digg Finally Admits the Auto-Bury Exists
#2Why is there drama about this? If pg had an auto-kill script for stories posted by me, would you care?
Re: Digg Finally Admits the Auto-Bury Exists
#3Why is there drama about this? If pg had an auto-kill script for stories posted by me, would you care?
It's not spam but I flagged it and I don't feel the least bit bad about flagging OMG! Digg! stories on HN.
Re: Digg Finally Admits the Auto-Bury Exists
#4Unmoderated forums quickly become dictatorships by the most insane. The fact that the links that float to the top on Digg are consistently bland, general-appeal, and uncontroversial despite the YouTube-like sophistication of its users suggests that the ranking algorithm is pretty far from democratic.
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#5Digg 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. Eventually, they might just have to ban them all and deal with the huge drop in traffic and engagement that would result.
Re: Digg Finally Admits the Auto-Bury Exists
#6Why is there drama about this? If pg had an auto-kill script for stories posted by me, would you care?
Not if he disclosed that fact.
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Re: Digg Finally Admits the Auto-Bury Exists
#8Unmoderated forums quickly become dictatorships by the most insane. The fact that the links that float to the top on Digg are consistently bland, general-appeal, and uncontroversial despite the YouTube-like sophistication of its users suggests that the ranking algorithm is pretty far from democratic.
Unmoderated forums quickly become dictatorships by the most insane.
That is a pretty accurate description of reddit...I'm glad that HN has active moderation, even though it's rarely needed.
Re: Digg Finally Admits the Auto-Bury Exists
#9In 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?)
Re: Digg Finally Admits the Auto-Bury Exists
#10Unmoderated forums quickly become dictatorships by the most insane. The fact that the links that float to the top on Digg are consistently bland, general-appeal, and uncontroversial despite the YouTube-like sophistication of its users suggests that the ranking algorithm is pretty far from democratic.
Unmoderated forums quickly become dictatorships by the most insane. That is a pretty accurate description of reddit...I'm glad that HN has active moderation, even though it's rarely needed.
It's not far off of Wikipedia either. A large number of participants in my Wikiproject, including myself, were eventually burned out by dealing with a few too many highly obsessive and misinformed users.
Seriously, go try to edit one the few somewhat-prominent WP articles that aren't locked and see how quickly someone comes up with a BS reason to revert your perfectly good edits. This happens especially often if you edit something political or religious in nature. It's a mess.