Comments on: Did Digg Really Unban Blogs or is it a Database Malfunction?

By: Mathpoints

Mathpoints — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 05:34:30 +0000

Digg Unbanned Sites…

Digg maybe studying the digg behaviour of their user groups in some kind and putting a final test to the new algorithm. My guess is that they might have further degraded the value of the friend’s vote on a user’s friend list, which remind me of their…

By: baron

baron — Sun, 25 Feb 2007 17:49:36 +0000

Well, I submitted Paul Stamitiou’s site (also got buried), my own (for a change), yours and I think I voted on John Chow’s stuff so I guess that puts me in the high risk group. lol

Some time after that I got one on the front page.

As much as I like JC his Digg speculation is usually off mark. I wonder how they plan to sort this mess out though. It was bad enough with the bury brigade. If this is true people will get more cautious about Digging, votes become fewer, stories don’t gain momentum.

I don’t know about you but it takes forever for stories to gain critical momentum these days. What kind of news sits in the incoming for a day? They need to hire some real computer scientists that can make a real voting algorithm.

By: Charbarred

Charbarred — Sun, 25 Feb 2007 17:09:42 +0000

According to this:
http://www.johnchow.com/so-much-for-being-back-on-digg/
they might actually be in the process of collecting data. If I submit your site, I may be labelled part of your “Group”. Scary stuff.

By: baron

baron — Sat, 24 Feb 2007 10:40:58 +0000

I’m tempted to quip, “but will it blend?”

Whatever they did is slowing the site down like crazy that’s for sure.

At the end of the day it really doesn’t matter what changes they institute as long as they let the bury brigade roam free because they’ll just reinforce whatever rules they like (witnessing how quickly they killed John Chow).

The good thing (if this is true) we can just go ahead and submit our stuff and others stuff without first thinking, “is this going to lead to a ban?” Competition should always be what determines what story hits the front page and not submitters cowering about the repercussions.

We’ll see.

By: HMTKSteve

HMTKSteve — Sat, 24 Feb 2007 10:04:20 +0000

I still believe this was caused by a database error. Until I read otherwise on the Digg Blog I will continue to think that.

By: Charbarred

Charbarred — Sat, 24 Feb 2007 09:22:45 +0000

I think it’s a smart move on their behalf. The banned domain list on digg has become so big that a lot of important sites were not covered by digg. Moreso a lot of bloggers would not submit their own sites (or friends’ sites) in fear that they will get banned as well. The result is that a) Many site owners turned to the competition (netscape, plime, stumbleupon) b)Digg was becoming an irrelevant news source. The question to ask is whether the banning rules remain the same. If so, digg’s huge “bury brigade” of 12 year olds who are not interested in anything that is not Apple or Wii related will soon get all these sites re-banned.