Comments on: Digg Has Moderators — They Just Suck

By: Deep Jive Interests » Recommended Reads: July 3, 2007

Deep Jive Interests » Recommended Reads: July 3, 2007 — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 04:21:23 +0000

[...] [STALE] I love Richard MacManus’s Read/Write Web. But jeez, isn’t this whole conversation about Digg requiring / having / needing better editors / moderators about 8 months old? [...]

By: Deep Jive Interests » Digg Revolt? Oh, The Delicious Irony.

Deep Jive Interests » Digg Revolt? Oh, The Delicious Irony. — Wed, 02 May 2007 05:33:13 +0000

[...] “spam” button so that he doesn’t have to employ a serious number of moderators? He’s *depending* on the community to “police” itself, because he doesn’t have the will to hire enough people to police itself? (or the cash. Or, [...]

By: Digg, The Democracy Is Put In Observation | Am I Famous Now…

Digg, The Democracy Is Put In Observation | Am I Famous Now… — Sat, 30 Dec 2006 15:06:26 +0000

[...] Top Diggers should become moderator if they are interested (eventually even renumerated). The Netscape model has proven his value. A moderator should be allowed to correct typos, correct links and many more. But at the same time moderators should have the power to immediately ban spam entries (close down as Netscape calls it) and to move entries among categories. Every action of a moderator should be disclosed. Moderator’s submissions should not have any higher status. Read more about Digg’s moderators at Deep Jive Interests. [...]

By: Jeremy Stratton

Jeremy Stratton — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 00:03:31 +0000

Leo Laporte and Amber MacArthur interviewed Kevin on Net@night episode 5:The Digg Effect http://www.talkshoe.com/talkshoe/web/talkCast.jsp?masterId=3185(where they take caller questions)

The question of how Digg is monitered/moderated is asked by a caller, and Kevin answers him.

By: neunetz.com » Wikio- Ein weiterer Anwärter für den deutschen Diggthron

neunetz.com » Wikio- Ein weiterer Anwärter für den deutschen Diggthron — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 16:50:25 +0000

[...] Auch digg hat immer wieder mit seiner Glaubwürdigkeit zu kämpfen. Seine Moderatoren wurden in der englischsprachigen Blogwelt immer wieder (zum Großteil zu Recht) kritisiert. Scheindemokratie, anyone? Wer eine Seite zu einem großen Teil auf usergenerated Content aufbaut, ist besser so transparent wie möglich, sonst fliegt ihm der ganze Mumpitz irgendwann um die Ohren. [...]

By: Tony

Tony — Fri, 24 Nov 2006 17:55:56 +0000

And man — was it buried fast … in probably around 90 minutes, and possibly by less than 10-15 buries too.

Thanks for dropping by, Stephen.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Fri, 24 Nov 2006 17:51:46 +0000

I agree with you here completely. I think that the whole “pointing out that digg has moderators” thing was misconstrued by the masses as stating that digg is up to no good. I feel like Muhammad’s post, as well as my post, ‘digg’s ninja moderators’, were merely written to clear up the common misconception that digg has no moderators.

Sadly, the story at submitted to digg was buried as ‘inaccurate’ when it was clearly not as Kevin Rose himself weighed in confirming its truth.