Comments on: Get Your Diggs In http://www.allpeers.com/blog/2006/01/26/get-your-diggs-in/ The official AllPeers blog Fri, 05 Dec 2008 07:08:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2 By: mwarden http://www.allpeers.com/blog/2006/01/26/get-your-diggs-in/#comment-6508 mwarden Sat, 04 Feb 2006 19:04:47 +0000 http://www.allpeers.com/blog/2006/01/26/get-your-diggs-in/#comment-6508 Slashdot's moderation system is nearly useless. It is an arbitrary filter that only 'works' for the first hour or two that a story is up, and even then only if the story itself is interesting enough to get a critical mass of people with mod points to read through the comments. It is *heavily* biased towards the first n comments made on an article, and thereafter a moderator is more likely to increase the moderation on an already-moderated comment than to moderate an unmoderated comment. This is because most users on slashdot view comments at a threashold of around 3, so unmoderated comments are not seen unless a moderator refreshes the page with a lower threshold. Slashdot’s moderation system is nearly useless. It is an arbitrary filter that only ‘works’ for the first hour or two that a story is up, and even then only if the story itself is interesting enough to get a critical mass of people with mod points to read through the comments. It is *heavily* biased towards the first n comments made on an article, and thereafter a moderator is more likely to increase the moderation on an already-moderated comment than to moderate an unmoderated comment. This is because most users on slashdot view comments at a threashold of around 3, so unmoderated comments are not seen unless a moderator refreshes the page with a lower threshold.

]]> By: Jeremy Dunck http://www.allpeers.com/blog/2006/01/26/get-your-diggs-in/#comment-6416 Jeremy Dunck Thu, 26 Jan 2006 20:07:48 +0000 http://www.allpeers.com/blog/2006/01/26/get-your-diggs-in/#comment-6416 I have been using del/popular happily for a quite some time. I started using digg about a month ago because I kept hearing about it. Here's my damning faint praise: it's like slashdot without the smart people and karmic boosterism. Also, del/popular and digg have a strong overlap, and the feed off del gives me the original link, not the link to the digg page. This sucks less. I do recommend you check out reddit, though. It has comments, but they're a subtle feature, and do not dominate the feel of the site. I've been using reddit for about a week, and it's coverage isn't as strong as del, but there just aren't many people using it yet. I really do like the feel of reddit overall. I have been using del/popular happily for a quite some time.

I started using digg about a month ago because I kept hearing about it.

Here’s my damning faint praise: it’s like slashdot without the smart people and karmic boosterism.

Also, del/popular and digg have a strong overlap, and the feed off del gives me the original link, not the link to the digg page. This sucks less.

I do recommend you check out reddit, though. It has comments, but they’re a subtle feature, and do not dominate the feel of the site.

I’ve been using reddit for about a week, and it’s coverage isn’t as strong as del, but there just aren’t many people using it yet. I really do like the feel of reddit overall.

]]> By: Matt http://www.allpeers.com/blog/2006/01/26/get-your-diggs-in/#comment-6415 Matt Thu, 26 Jan 2006 19:13:18 +0000 http://www.allpeers.com/blog/2006/01/26/get-your-diggs-in/#comment-6415 Yeah, comments are useful. But as <a href="http://www.allpeers.com/blog/2006/01/09/you-digg/" rel="nofollow">I pointed out</a>, they'd be a heck of a lot more useful with a moderation system like Slashdot's. Yeah, comments are useful. But as I pointed out, they’d be a heck of a lot more useful with a moderation system like Slashdot’s.

]]> By: Mike http://www.allpeers.com/blog/2006/01/26/get-your-diggs-in/#comment-6414 Mike Thu, 26 Jan 2006 19:04:15 +0000 http://www.allpeers.com/blog/2006/01/26/get-your-diggs-in/#comment-6414 I agree that comments are a BIG boost for digg, but not because I like to comment or to read "great, cool, stupid" repeatedly. On digg's off-frontpage stories the comments somtimes reference related topics and useful info - and they're easier to read than it is to "interpret" a particular combination of tags on del.icio.us. I agree that comments are a BIG boost for digg, but not because I like to comment or to read “great, cool, stupid” repeatedly. On digg’s off-frontpage stories the comments somtimes reference related topics and useful info - and they’re easier to read than it is to “interpret” a particular combination of tags on del.icio.us.

]]> By: Stephen http://www.allpeers.com/blog/2006/01/26/get-your-diggs-in/#comment-6413 Stephen Thu, 26 Jan 2006 15:34:16 +0000 http://www.allpeers.com/blog/2006/01/26/get-your-diggs-in/#comment-6413 Agreed that not many people add omments as there is really no need if you have the tag you want and 500 people have added it. Not often do you get a bad site, or in my case anyway. If you say Yeah but no comments I don't think the comments are the key success of digg. Agreed that not many people add omments as there is really no need if you have the tag you want and 500 people have added it. Not often do you get a bad site, or in my case anyway.

If you say Yeah but no comments I don’t think the comments are the key success of digg.

]]> By: buck naked http://www.allpeers.com/blog/2006/01/26/get-your-diggs-in/#comment-6412 buck naked Thu, 26 Jan 2006 14:34:09 +0000 http://www.allpeers.com/blog/2006/01/26/get-your-diggs-in/#comment-6412 Who cares about stupid comments like : Wow great, unbelievable ! Comments makes you lose time. Who cares about stupid comments like : Wow great, unbelievable ! Comments makes you lose time.

]]> By: Matt http://www.allpeers.com/blog/2006/01/26/get-your-diggs-in/#comment-6411 Matt Thu, 26 Jan 2006 14:28:17 +0000 http://www.allpeers.com/blog/2006/01/26/get-your-diggs-in/#comment-6411 Yeah, but the popular page has no descriptions, for example. Also, you can't add comments. Yeah, but the popular page has no descriptions, for example. Also, you can’t add comments.

]]> By: Stephen http://www.allpeers.com/blog/2006/01/26/get-your-diggs-in/#comment-6410 Stephen Thu, 26 Jan 2006 14:19:55 +0000 http://www.allpeers.com/blog/2006/01/26/get-your-diggs-in/#comment-6410 "They’d do far better to add Digg-like features to del.icio.us" I do not get that at all. The entire del.icio.us site is just that. Each site is added to the count of the same existing URL Browse to http://del.icio.us/tags/tweaks and you can see how many people have linked that site or you could say how many others digg that site. If a link is getting added by many people within x period of time the link becomes popular and is added to the front page of del.icio.us “They’d do far better to add Digg-like features to del.icio.us”
I do not get that at all.

The entire del.icio.us site is just that. Each site is added to the count of the same existing URL

Browse to http://del.icio.us/tags/tweaks and you can see how many people have linked that site or you could say how many others digg that site.

If a link is getting added by many people within x period of time the link becomes popular and is added to the front page of del.icio.us

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