Comments on: Digg Scraps Top Diggers List

By: Moon

Moon — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 20:55:16 +0000

This will completely change the Digg system!

The thing is, nobody (not even the Digg designers) can guess how this will change the system, but you can bet that this will change it in some deep way.

Those two lines don’t exactly work well together.

Moon

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» From Bokardo - Digg Scraps Top Diggers List - Best Web Design Blogs — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 21:28:30 +0000

[...] This is huge news: Digg is scrapping their top diggers list: Kevin rose explains the decision: “Which leads me (Kevin Rose) to a disappointing trend that we ve noticed over the past several months. Some of our top users the people that have spent hundreds if not thousands of hours finding and digging the best stuff […] Read more… [...]

By: Nicholas

Nicholas — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 07:46:13 +0000

Sorry, read “morales” as “morals” in above.

By: Nicholas

Nicholas — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 07:44:40 +0000

When too many fads exist simultaneously – evolution occurs otherwise we get monopolistic old sharks. Digg is like democracy in action – and its beauty is the ease of a digg – the lack of real work required on the part of “diggers” who are creating relevancy in a “new” way. “social networks” exist in cumulative time. That a motivation must exist to make the Perpetual Motion Machine effect does not mean that motivation should affect the democratic nature of the action. Microeconomies may offer a suitable model – transient motivations rather than exclusive ones that have a socially cohesive force. In society we call these motivations morales. It was morale of Digg.com to democratise. It is like growing up.

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By: Josh

Josh — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 20:24:55 +0000

Good quote, Pauric! Thanks for adding that.

By: lawrence coburn

lawrence coburn — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 20:13:47 +0000

This is very interesting, especially when taken together with Digg’s decision not to share revenue. For many Digg users, I bet public recognition (like through the top users list) IS the compensation. This strikes me as a risky move.

By: Where does community end and “gaming” start?

Where does community end and “gaming” start? — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 17:49:08 +0000

[...] As Scott Karp (who writes about the recent Digg move here) says in a recent post, companies like Digg live by the community and die by the community. Steve O’Hear at ZDNet has some thoughts about the Digg move, and Josh Bokardo thinks Digg may be in for a surprise. Steve Rubel thinks Digg needs to start paying Diggers or it may be doomed. Mark Evans has a take on the recent move too. And there actually seems to be some support for the idea of removing the top Diggers list on the Digg site itself. Technorati Tags: Digg, game, social networks, Web2.0 [...]

By: pauric

pauric — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 17:10:31 +0000

hmmm, the link got trunk-eated

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070201-8752.html

By: pauric

pauric — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 17:09:50 +0000

I like this comment on Ars about the changes over at Flickr, there are some similarities

“Seniority perks and visible signifiers of in-group status are “Anthropology 101,” and no amount of Web 2.0 pixie dust can change that basic fact of human nature. Community sites that forget this in the midst of changes and genuine improvements do irreparable damage to the very social networks that they’re striving to build.”