Comments on: Digg Town Hall: Spam Catching, Exit Strategies, Focus Groups, And Pimping (Digg’s Features) http://www.deepjiveinterests.com/2008/02/26/digg-town-hall-spam-catching-exit-strategies-focus-groups-and-pimping-diggs-features/ Thoughts on Web 2.0, Social Media, Marketing. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:25:56 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Web 2.0 idols meet with… a camera | Broadcasting Brain http://www.deepjiveinterests.com/2008/02/26/digg-town-hall-spam-catching-exit-strategies-focus-groups-and-pimping-diggs-features/comment-page-1/#comment-132543 Web 2.0 idols meet with… a camera | Broadcasting Brain Tue, 26 Feb 2008 13:33:26 +0000 http://www.deepjiveinterests.com/2008/02/26/digg-town-hall-spam-catching-exit-strategies-focus-groups-and-pimping-diggs-features/#comment-132543 [...] Deep Jive Interests - Digg Town Hall - Spam Catching, Exit Strategies, Focus Groups, and Pimping (Di... [...] [...] Deep Jive Interests – Digg Town Hall – Spam Catching, Exit Strategies, Focus Groups, and Pimping (Di… [...]

]]> By: Bob Caswell http://www.deepjiveinterests.com/2008/02/26/digg-town-hall-spam-catching-exit-strategies-focus-groups-and-pimping-diggs-features/comment-page-1/#comment-132474 Bob Caswell Tue, 26 Feb 2008 06:25:39 +0000 http://www.deepjiveinterests.com/2008/02/26/digg-town-hall-spam-catching-exit-strategies-focus-groups-and-pimping-diggs-features/#comment-132474 I found it interesting that they did admit to having a blacklist of sites that is matched with the upcoming queue in an automated process. But then, don't worry, there's no "auto-bury." Well, I guess it's how you define auto-bury. To me, that sounds an awful lot like what I would consider to be "auto-bury." But then, all they had to say is "fighting spam" and all is well. The crowd is appeased even if plenty of legitimate sites are auto-buried / blacklisted in the process. Plus there was a quick nod to the "our hands are tied" excuse toward the end in reference to the fact that sometimes the digg crowd gets together and decides it hates certain sites/blogs. Too bad for those sites; they're not welcome by however many of the tens of millions of uniques it takes for the sites to be blacklisted/auto-buried (I'm guessing probably somewhere around .00001% of the community can decide what is permanently not wanted by everyone). To recap, legitimate sites can be (and have been, just not Engadget or Ars Technica, of course) blacklisted / banned / auto-buried (pick your term) because they're a) mistaken as spam or b) rejected a couple times by an extremely small percentage of the community. I found it interesting that they did admit to having a blacklist of sites that is matched with the upcoming queue in an automated process. But then, don’t worry, there’s no “auto-bury.” Well, I guess it’s how you define auto-bury. To me, that sounds an awful lot like what I would consider to be “auto-bury.”

But then, all they had to say is “fighting spam” and all is well. The crowd is appeased even if plenty of legitimate sites are auto-buried / blacklisted in the process.

Plus there was a quick nod to the “our hands are tied” excuse toward the end in reference to the fact that sometimes the digg crowd gets together and decides it hates certain sites/blogs. Too bad for those sites; they’re not welcome by however many of the tens of millions of uniques it takes for the sites to be blacklisted/auto-buried (I’m guessing probably somewhere around .00001% of the community can decide what is permanently not wanted by everyone).

To recap, legitimate sites can be (and have been, just not Engadget or Ars Technica, of course) blacklisted / banned / auto-buried (pick your term) because they’re a) mistaken as spam or b) rejected a couple times by an extremely small percentage of the community.

]]> By: Digg Town Hall: No “secret moderators” - - mathewingram.com/work http://www.deepjiveinterests.com/2008/02/26/digg-town-hall-spam-catching-exit-strategies-focus-groups-and-pimping-diggs-features/comment-page-1/#comment-132468 Digg Town Hall: No “secret moderators” - - mathewingram.com/work Tue, 26 Feb 2008 05:05:15 +0000 http://www.deepjiveinterests.com/2008/02/26/digg-town-hall-spam-catching-exit-strategies-focus-groups-and-pimping-diggs-features/#comment-132468 [...] Hung has some thoughts at Deep Jive Interests, and there’s an overview of the town hall here as well. Best line in [...] [...] Hung has some thoughts at Deep Jive Interests, and there’s an overview of the town hall here as well. Best line in [...]

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