Bad Digg, Bad Kevin Rose
Over on Forever Geek there was a post put up a day ago talking about the fact that Kevin Rose himself and a group of almost twenty people dugg two different stories in the exact same way. Except for a person or two, the two lists were exactly the same.
This basically showed how Digg is being controlled more and more by Kevin Rose, and the moderators of Digg. Has the power gone to their head? I think so, as the next day another post on Forever Geek shows their reaction to the realization of the problem: ban and delete.
What made this really interesting was that the 17th digger was none other than Kevin Rose, aka celebrated creator and founder of Digg. I’ve read that Digg gets anywhere from 500,000 to 800,000 readers a day. 16 (or 19) identical diggs for two articles by the same author? 22 of the first 24 diggers being being the same for both articles? Somehow I don’t think that is a coincidence.
So we posted this, and some people found it interesting. Over at the fellow geeky Binary Bonsai, reader Andreas Climent noted that submitting any url from ForeverGeek was now impossible to Digg. We got banned from Digg.
I think it is a very sad day when a website or company goes against the very rules they set in place to keep a tight control over something, especially when it is supposed to be controlled by the masses.
Something stinks at Digg, and I don’t think it will be the last thing…
6 Responses to Bad Digg, Bad Kevin Rose
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jangelo Said,
April 20, 2006 @ 1:19 pm
Tsk. Tsk. Disappointing!
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Brad Said,
April 20, 2006 @ 2:42 pm
My thoughts on Kevin Rose are fairly well known to anyone who knows me, so I have to admit I’m not too surprised about this whole thing. It’s classic Kevin (and probably other moderators, it’s not like I have any idea how digg works internally) to make anything that even hints at him doing something “bad” or “unpopular” disappear if he has that power.
I for one don’t really care that the story seems to be being pushed under the rug. It makes sense from a business standpoint for Kevin and the gang, but it disturbs me that he can’t admit that’s what it is…instead of trying to cover it up and cause a pile of attention for his site (another classic ploy of kevin’s actually). When the dust settles on whatever is really going on with the digg/forevergeek issue, the real winner is the site that gets the most hits because of the situation, so far I’d say digg is leaps and bounds ahead. Score one for underhanded tactics.
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Marco (Griffith) Jardim Said,
April 20, 2006 @ 6:54 pm
Has anyone heard of newsvine? (This is a rhetorical question, well, actually it’s more of a suggestion.)
My usage and reading of Digg was none, a bit, a lot, and now it’s closer to none again. I don’t like reading news sites in which in all articles that interested me, instead of there being good comments, the only comments are things such as “OMG I can’t believe your digging your own article, etc etc”.
They say digg is the new /. but I think /.’s comments much more amusing, and interesting even… sometimes… ok ok, once in a while.
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David Said,
April 20, 2006 @ 7:47 pm
Good Call Brad and Marco. I love da vine.
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Brad Said,
April 20, 2006 @ 10:32 pm
yeah, i’ve been getting more and more into newsvine lately (and was never and still am not into digg much at all). It’s interesting, it has actual news in with posted links and ORIGINAL content, as it grows it seems to just get better, lets hope it stays true to it’s roots!
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Stephen Said,
April 22, 2006 @ 12:55 am
One of the main reasons I prefer del.icio.us to digg is that there is no discussion of the links. Short descriptions are fine, but let the actual link speak for itself.
Newsvine is a little different and not entirely the domain of sad, 13-year-olds that populate digg.
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