Comments on: Digg Backlash Reinforces the Risks of Social Media

By: Alex

Alex — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 13:09:22 +0000

I am disappointed about how Digg revised their system. Social Media this present times is in demand for every site in order to gain that reputation in terms of Search Engine Ranking position and Page Rank, however, G loves digg as one of bookmarking site but today the new digg is useless for me. I really love the old digg site than the new one. It is not the way Rose apologize, what matters most is how and when they can fix the site.

By: A S

A S — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 02:15:45 +0000

I am surprised that you don’t give more prominence to the core issue – Digg has always been a social news site, meaning that it is supposed to be about user-submitted and user-generated content. Allowing traditional publishers to submit content straight to Digg is in total violation of the ‘social news’ principle. The excuse that they had to do this to reduce the influence of ‘power users’ is total b.s. They had to do this to satisfy the greed of people like the VCs. Sites like reddit avoid the power user dynamic in simpler and better ways such as not displaying either the submitter’s ID or the popularity socre on newly submitted articles for a certain period of time. It would have been all too easy for Digg to implement similar changes if all that they wanted to do was reduce the influence of power users.

By: Woodrow Bears

Woodrow Bears — Sun, 12 Sep 2010 00:23:48 +0000

NO, this is why you do not have a crappy CEO like Kevin Rose. PLus, the web is moving towards niche community sites like collegeonly.com and http://stock.ly Digg’s time is up. BUHBYE KROSE

By: Asif Youssuff

Asif Youssuff — Sat, 11 Sep 2010 20:21:43 +0000

Your readers may be interested in a Digg alternative that continues in the “follow” user model, but with a bit more power. quippd allows users to make stories editable, enabling high quality content curation based on a single story or topic, not focused on a single publisher.

See this story about the recent cancellation of the Qur’an burning in Florida: http://quippd.com/show/3875/Florida_pastor_of_Dove_World_Outreach_Center_calls_off_Quran_burning

Instead of linking to *one* content provider for this information, *many* are linked to, as the story unfolds.

By: jossef

jossef — Sat, 11 Sep 2010 12:03:44 +0000

Digg’s problem is not tied to a redesign. It’s cute to play he angle but it isn’t true. The real problem is that Digg was built “pre-social”. We are now in a “post-social” world. Most sites built before Social really happened are at risk. DIGG is a big loser.

By: Pastor Charlie

Pastor Charlie — Sat, 11 Sep 2010 02:01:09 +0000

I was an avid user and supporter of Digg until the Big Change… Digg Was a good way to get traffic and subscribers… and for Now, I see no Advantage for Content promotion or Marketing. Change is a constant, but you cannot abandon your core value.

By: Niraj

Niraj — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 22:29:10 +0000

“Digg had to change, or risk becoming irrelevant”

This may be true, but the change they made will make them irrelevant anyways. By promoting large publishers and RSS publishing, they lose the individual voice that made them unique in the first place, while simultaneously making them more equal to all the other information aggregators that are social – Google Reader/Buzz, Twitter, Facebook, etc. Why would anyone migrate to the new Digg when they can and have been doing the same thing on those other sites thus far?

By: Om Malik

Om Malik — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 21:22:54 +0000

Dude that is an awesome piece. Thanks for sharing. Man — he was spot on in his analysis. It also is a good piece to read to understand why FB is not a social network, but a service that wants to social enable everything. Key distinction!

By: Justin

Justin — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 21:19:29 +0000

It’s never easy to build a business around user generated content. Bo Peabody, founder of Tripod, captured the reasons why perfectly – http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/25/AR2009092502547.html