Comments on: John Chow Confirms: Mobs Rule At Digg

By: Paula

Paula — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 12:45:09 +0000

I think that this crew has now decided gay and lesbian website must disappear from Digg now…

http://www.lesbiatopia.com/2007/12/you-cant-pull-wool-over-our-eyes.html

Which simply amazes me because of the location of Digg HQ in San Francisco… I mean its a bad thing to try to censor any website… but is it a smart thing to start banning gay and lesbian web sites, just because they are gay and lesbian web sites if you live in San Francisco?

By: anon

anon — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 19:30:45 +0000

his posts were obviously spam.

he kept hitting digg front page every day in a row, for some lame ass articles. his “google whores” post was great, but he followed it up with several lame posts and the “gamed” vibe was just there.

sincirely,
- glad the spammer John Chow he was banned from digg

By: gregd

gregd — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 15:42:06 +0000

Netscape did add a “sink” feature. However, it’s only functionality is to turn a post gray if it has enough sinks. I believe the ratio is 60-40 before the post turns gray. It will NOT actually remove a submission, but it holds for some accountability because it will show you who sunk the story….

By: Tony

Tony — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 14:51:20 +0000

Alister I’m all for getting the bury function modified somewhat, but I don’t see it going away for good, because its the only way that Kevin and co. can rely on the community to police themselves.

As a bit of an update, apparently Netscape has added a modified “bury” feature, called “sinking” (playing on the naval theme)

cheers
t

By: Alister Cameron, Blog Consultant

Alister Cameron, Blog Consultant — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 13:26:59 +0000

Man… it’s simple.

Just turn the bury feature off.

Or make it so that a digger can only bury at a ration of one to twenty digs. Or that he has to be older than 3 months on digg before he can bury.

But while I think there are ways to adjust how burying works, I think the better approach would be a “report spam” approach, rather than burying.

At least then you have the “power” to report someone, but not kill them.

By: The imminent implossion of Digg » Thinking Outloud

The imminent implossion of Digg » Thinking Outloud — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 23:12:18 +0000

[...] With all of the recent problems that Digg is having they are destined for doom. Yea yea you could say that it is just growing pains or some other BS but everyone has got to see that Digg has become a monster that I doubt Kevin or Jay had envisioned. [...]

By: At The Mercy of Social Bookmarkers

At The Mercy of Social Bookmarkers — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 22:02:57 +0000

[...] Dr. Tony Hung is right in wondering if users could game the process and ban a blog like TechCrunch. If 50 users from 50 different states set up 1 account each, and in a completely random fashion submit one article from TechCrunch per person, which they then get all the others to mark as spam and report to Digg as spam, will TechCrunch be banned from being submitted to Digg? [...]