Category: Social Media
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That was easy
And just like that, Karim (supernova17) has been unbanned. (See here for the banning.) At the rate that Digg bans and unbans this guy, they should just install a Staples Easy Button at their office to take care of it.
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Solidarity for supernova17
I just noticed that 4 of the top 31 users at Digg (MrBabyMan, koregaonpark, TheAttacks, and charbarred) have all replaced their avatars with that of supernova17, who was banned from Digg for submitting (yes, just submitting) a story about how there might be a so-called Bury Brigade. I’m not sure what the Digg moderators were…
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Netscape 9 Teasers: Week V
My latest teaser for Netscape 9 is up at the Netscape blog: “Netscape 9 will include built-in tools to share, vote for, and discuss interesting things you find on the Web directly from the browser’s URL bar. […] We feel that having these tools in the browser by default will introduce the idea of social…
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Digg’s 100% Club
Everybody knows that Kevin Rose has a perfect 1:1 ratio of Digg submissions to frontpage stories, but what other Diggers belong to this exclusive 100% club? The following Digg users submit popular stories with pinpoint accuracy, and like the best military snipers, they never miss. User # of submissions kevinrose 216 cmptrge3k 5 Diggnation 4…
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Since Digg apparently invented the idea of voting for things…
Iraq copies Digg, implements voting. Although in Iraq, unlike on Digg, each person’s vote is equal.
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Ahead of the curve
Business Week reports: “Later this year, Digg will launch a recommendation tool able to expose members to fellow Diggers who appear to have similar interests, says Rose. ‘Digg will be smart enough to know what interests you,’ says Rose. The site will identify those with like interests in part by the previous stories they have…
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Digg removes rank information from profiles (or, Ain’t nothin’ gonna break my stride)
This morning, Digg removed ranking information from user profiles. I commented on the story, pointing to my top users list for people who were still interested in their rank. Digg CEO Jay Adelson responded to my comment thusly: “We no longer display that rank information, so don’t be surprised if Chris’s list is no longer…
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On resurrecting Digg’s Top Users page
My restoration of Digg’s Top Users page yesterday got a lot of press around the Web: Both the list and my blog post about the list were submitted to Digg, but both were buried off of the front page. (Buried, or manually removed?) Michael Arrington mentioned the list at TechCrunch, and the readers commenting on…
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Top Diggers no longer recognized
Kevin Rose writes on the Digg blog: Some of our top users are being blamed by some outlets as leading efforts to manipulate Digg. These users have been listed on the “Top Diggers” area of the site that was created in the early days of Digg when there was a strong focus on encouraging people…