Comments on: Digg’s Failure: When “No Moderation” Doesn’t Work

By: Tracy Esau

Tracy Esau — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 05:28:23 +0000

There are always people there in the market pointing at the negative aspect of things. I would say pointing at negativity is not bad at all because it helps to become efficient but on the other hand one should appreciate the positive features as well for appreciation

By: Cory Kemp

Cory Kemp — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 06:50:19 +0000

The sad fact is, there will always be spammers, and they will always find ways around safeguards. The fact is, spammers are more determined than the “good guys” are to stop them. I’m worried that spammers are killing the net…

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[...] It may be dodgy if its affiliate does not offer a valid product, but if those dental plans are legitimate, the site may be a decent example of gaming search optimization and social media without being the spam node Kennedy and other bloggers have called it. [...]

By: The Mu Life » The Keepers Of The Democratic Web

The Mu Life » The Keepers Of The Democratic Web — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 20:29:27 +0000

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By: HMTKSteve

HMTKSteve — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 18:48:19 +0000

1 hour and 16 minutes and this Digg story has been buried!

By: Tony

Tony — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 18:06:58 +0000

Well, conspiracy theorists aside, there are a healthy bunch of Digg boosters who will also “bury” posts, so that might be what happened as well.

When posts and diggers completely disappear — which is something that no one can do, save for the Command and Control behind Digg — that’s when you can start strapping on your aluminum foil helmet :)

But Editorial shennanigans have been happening for a long time (see my own abbreviated short history on Digg). Digg’s people, however, will call it “spam control”.

Call it what you want, but its still editorial pressure — and if they’re doing that, who knows what other undocumented stuff they’re doing? :)

Cheers
t

By: HMTKSteve

HMTKSteve — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 17:59:15 +0000

Amazing how great minds think alike!

I just blogged about this very topic today after a post about the Digg/News Corp deal, that was on my blog, got buried on Digg super fast!

The same post over on Netscape got an amazing (for Netscape) 12+ votes!

I think there is some sort of strange editorial control going on behind the scenes at Digg.

Try doing a search on Digg for “Kevin Rose” then do a second search with the “include buried” option check.