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Digg.com: The Good, The Ugly
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By AI Editor
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Digg.com: The Good, The Ugly
Many people, especially those who are into science and gadgets, visit a website called Digg.com.
A community-based popularity site, Digg.com attracts techie people since most of its articles emphasize on technical topics and related fields. The articles in the site are expanding and now include even notes on the political arena and entertainment world. Digg.com also features social bookmarking, blogging, and syndication that is combined with a freer editorial control that is lenient on hierarchy.
That means users of the site can submit any noteworthy news and websites. Digg.com then determines which stories will be placed in the front cover utilizing a ranking system that is user-based
Those who visit the site can view the submitted articles in the News/Upcoming section of the site. When an article reaches a certain amount of usage and promotion, or diggs, it is transferred to Diggs.com's front page. If the article does not get sufficient diggs or if there are complaints about the article, it will stay in the digg section where it will stay for some time until removed.
Articles that are submitted in Digg.com are usually summaries of stories that are found in other websites. Links to the original stories accompany the articles. Digg.com allows readers to comment on these stories. Additionally, the site allows the stories to b posted to a user's blog automatically when she promotes, or diggs, a story.
Digg.com is generally free of charge. It is accessed freely and going into the website does not cost anything. However, there are few limitations, a reader should register for use of digging or submitting stories, and making comments on stories.
Users can also submit original stories. They can choose categories where they want to post their stories. Originally, there were fifteen—deals, gaming, links, mods, music, robots, security, te
chnology, Apple, design, hardware, Linux/Unix, movies, programming, science, and software. Last 26 June 2006, there was an upgrade, and these categories were divided into six main categories with subcategories each—technology, science, world and business, sports, entertainment, and gaming.
While a popular and ˇ°safe site, Digg.com has its own share of criticisms. Most of the denigrations focus on the site's moderation; readers have too much access over the content. This lack of control makes the site vulnerable to sensationalism and misinformation.
On the other hand, many people think that the operators and staff of Digg.com has too much control over the articles that land on the front page and on the site's forum section. Most of the complaints come from users who have been prevented from posting and whose accounts were disabled because they wrote and gave their comments in the user-moderated forums that could be in conflict with the interests of Digg.com's operators.
One of the most criticized feature of Digg.com is their ˇ°bury option. This option allows a user to obliterate a story, criticism, or a comment of a hotbed topic that might not agree with the overall view of the site's community. This can lead to abuse; the person who buries is not indicated. That means a user can bury stories without accountability.
The bury feature, which was meant to separate spam and inaccurate stories from the viable ones, allows abusive users to form a ˇ°bury brigade. These people tag articles with which they disagree as span. Thus stories which may be critical, important, or interesting may not be published in the site at all.
According to observations, the top one hundred users of Digg control 56 percent of the frontpage content. A niche group of twenty people had submitted twenty-five percent of the frontpage content. Deducing the statistics, it is possible that the flow of articles are manipulated, favoring those of interest of these people.
Visit Digg.com and check out their articles.
A community-based popularity site, Digg.com attracts techie people since most of its articles emphasize on technical topics and related fields. The articles in the site are expanding and now include even notes on the political arena and entertainment world. Digg.com also features social bookmarking, blogging, and syndication that is combined with a freer editorial control that is lenient on hierarchy.
That means users of the site can submit any noteworthy news and websites. Digg.com then determines which stories will be placed in the front cover utilizing a ranking system that is user-based
Those who visit the site can view the submitted articles in the News/Upcoming section of the site. When an article reaches a certain amount of usage and promotion, or diggs, it is transferred to Diggs.com's front page. If the article does not get sufficient diggs or if there are complaints about the article, it will stay in the digg section where it will stay for some time until removed.
Articles that are submitted in Digg.com are usually summaries of stories that are found in other websites. Links to the original stories accompany the articles. Digg.com allows readers to comment on these stories. Additionally, the site allows the stories to b posted to a user's blog automatically when she promotes, or diggs, a story.
Digg.com is generally free of charge. It is accessed freely and going into the website does not cost anything. However, there are few limitations, a reader should register for use of digging or submitting stories, and making comments on stories.
Users can also submit original stories. They can choose categories where they want to post their stories. Originally, there were fifteen—deals, gaming, links, mods, music, robots, security, te
While a popular and ˇ°safe site, Digg.com has its own share of criticisms. Most of the denigrations focus on the site's moderation; readers have too much access over the content. This lack of control makes the site vulnerable to sensationalism and misinformation.
On the other hand, many people think that the operators and staff of Digg.com has too much control over the articles that land on the front page and on the site's forum section. Most of the complaints come from users who have been prevented from posting and whose accounts were disabled because they wrote and gave their comments in the user-moderated forums that could be in conflict with the interests of Digg.com's operators.
One of the most criticized feature of Digg.com is their ˇ°bury option. This option allows a user to obliterate a story, criticism, or a comment of a hotbed topic that might not agree with the overall view of the site's community. This can lead to abuse; the person who buries is not indicated. That means a user can bury stories without accountability.
The bury feature, which was meant to separate spam and inaccurate stories from the viable ones, allows abusive users to form a ˇ°bury brigade. These people tag articles with which they disagree as span. Thus stories which may be critical, important, or interesting may not be published in the site at all.
According to observations, the top one hundred users of Digg control 56 percent of the frontpage content. A niche group of twenty people had submitted twenty-five percent of the frontpage content. Deducing the statistics, it is possible that the flow of articles are manipulated, favoring those of interest of these people.
Visit Digg.com and check out their articles.
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