Comments on: Is influence of Top Digg users over ?

By: Nirmal

Nirmal — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 09:19:27 +0000

I guess this is a welcome step. I have never been dugg, but I strongly feel Stumble upon is the best Social site as it wont bring your site down and also gives more consistent traffic than Digg

By: Shankar Ganesh

Shankar Ganesh — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 14:52:51 +0000

Well, definitely top users are dissatisfied because their influence is going to drop.

As you said popular sites are easily going to get ‘diverse’ votes whereas other relatively unpopular sites are going to be suffering a bit.

Considering that a story requires more diverse votes to reach a front page, digg should also consider holding stories in the upcoming section for *more than* 24 hrs.

Usually, a story vanishes from the upcoming section and never reaches front page if it doesn’t reach the ‘threshold’ required in 24 hours. :)

That’s my 2 cents.

By: Techblissonline Dot Com

Techblissonline Dot Com — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 11:54:53 +0000

Hot users were infact manipulators….let them go to hell…this step is welcome….

By: Sumesh

Sumesh — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 11:19:36 +0000

Influence of top users will reduce, and it is important for that to happen.

However, what worries me is the increased no. of diggs required.

Considering that Digg is already slow in picking up hot stories, this new feature will surely slow it down further. The no. of stories hitting front page will reduce, thereby increasing exposure and traffic for the sites that are dugg – usualy large blogs and sites. That is more unfair than it used to be :(