Digg Ditches List of ‘Top Diggers’
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Written By Kate Zimmermann | February 2, 2007 | Share This
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Kevin Rose, CEO of Digg, has announced that the ‘Top Digger’ list will be discontinued. This is the first in a series of updates that will improve Digg’s user-ranking system. His post is largely an attempt to dissuade the growing perception that people “game” Digg, and respond to rumors about their elite list of “top diggers”. Rose writes,
“We strongly believe attempts to game Digg are ineffective…Stories reach the home page only when enough legitimate users have put them there. Even if someone were paid to submit or digg a story that reached the home page, what many dont realize is the combination of factors that ultimately led to that story getting there…At the end of the day, we work constantly to ensure that the broader Digg community gets to decide what makes it to the homepage…
“Which leads me to a disappointing trend that we’ve noticed over the past few months. Some of our top users - the people that have spent hundreds if not thousands of hours finding and digging the best stuff - are being blamed by some outlets as leading efforts to manipulate Digg. These users have been listed on the “Top Diggers” area of the site that was created in the early days of Digg when there was a strong focus on encouraging people to submit content…Now, as the site has matured and we regularly get 5,000+ content submissions per day, we believe there are better ways to discover new friends based on your interests and what you’re digging…After considerable internal debate and discussion with many of those who make up the Top Digger list, we’ve decided to remove the list beginning tomorrow. As for what’s next, we’re currently working on designing and refining the technologies required that will help enable our nearly 900,000 registered users to make real connections that we believe will greatly enhance the Digg experience. We plan on rolling this out in the coming months along with features and programs that do a better job of rewarding positive contributions to the Digg community.”
Good step, i suppose, but as Deep Jive Interests notes, it may not change much.
Discussion
- Latest Digg Payola Exposed (ProNet Advertising)
- Digg Drops List of Top Users to Curb Gaming (Search Engine Land)
- Digg To Stop Making Their Users Famous (Problogger)
- The New Digg Nation (GigaOm)
- Re-engineering the Bigg Digg (J. LeRoy’s Evolving Web)
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