Comments on: What is Digg Planning?

By: robdiana

robdiana — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 13:19:28 +0000

Sani, if scripts were being used and it is against the TOU, then you can eliminate the users. The timing is the thing in question.

Calinazaret, I do not use Digg, but my understanding is that there are greasemonkey scripts and 3rd party apps that allow diggers to quickly digg and share posts to their friends as well as seeing who has dugg the post already so you do not “re-share” with them.

By: calinazaret

calinazaret — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 05:53:01 +0000

Maybe I’m revealing my n00bosity here, but what is a digg script and how is it used?

By: sani moyo

sani moyo — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 03:13:15 +0000

Maybe it is just cleaning up that was long overdue

By: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Digg Front Page | BiggestLobster.com

Tue, 14 Oct 2008 15:21:23 +0000

[...] a look at this story that speculates about Digg’s [...]

By: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Digg Front Page

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Digg Front Page — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 11:57:22 +0000

[...] a look at this story that speculates about Digg’s plans in relation to the recent bannings. I submitted it to Digg [...]

By: alexander-social media guy

alexander-social media guy — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 19:47:04 +0000

My powerful PR3 alexander13 account was banned about 3 weeks after Zaibatsu and the digg support team gave me that same bs excuse about TOS violation and script usage.

My script required manual digging of friends submitted stories. NO automation was used.

Like you I agree they can do what they want with their site but the timing was something I questioned since I’d been active for over a year.

By: robdiana

robdiana — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 12:11:47 +0000

Ari,

Yes, the bannings and such have not been executed very well. Digg has been struggling with its own success for a while. However, it is far too early to assume Digg is dead.

By: Knud

Knud — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 09:35:55 +0000

I am working on a site which try to solve many of the problems with digg.com.
You can find it on http://crowdnews.eu.

The main problem with digg is the voting system.
When only top voted stories get on the front page it has
to be a subject that many can relate to,
which result in stories with a low information content.

Crowdnews solves this by using sharing instead of voting.
Every have a personal news page on which they can subscribe to other users and when those users share stories they will appear on the personal news page.

Join me on CrowdNews