Welcome to Digg Love, a blog dedicated to analyzing, trend-spotting, and fully understanding social news site www.digg.com. Digg works by putting user-submitted stories in front of a jury of the masses. Users can digg up or digg down. The most views rise to the front page and eventually the coveted top ten. Digg has a very active community, so anytime there is an issue, online activism usually is enough to invoke change.
For example, recently Digg has turned into a capitalist greed machine for submitted stories. Digg’s top 50 users went from having submitted about 20% of Digg’s most popular stories in September ’08 all the way to about 80% a year later. Thoguh outrage in the Digg community has been heard, change is yet to come.
Many point to the recommendation engine as the source of this problem. The more dugg users get more recommendations and this has created a ripple effect. How should the Digg community fix this growing problem?
At the end of each post, I will share something I have found on Digg that makes my life a little better. This picture is one of them:
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