Sam Traveler - Yesterday there were some big changes on the Digg front. First the company took the site down for about an hour. Afterwards they announced on their blog that the algorithm was changed. Here is a quote from that announcement:
Just wanted to give everyone some insight into some of the changes we’ve been making this week. As we’ve talked about in the past, Digg’s promotional algorithm ensures that the most popular content dugg by a diverse, unique group of diggers reaches the home page. Our goal is to give each person a fair chance of getting their submission promoted to the home page.
It looks like that the algorithm will now make it harder for stories that get Dugg by the same group of people. I am not sure what will be the practical results of the change yet, but there is already a small revolt going on with the top Digg users.
On the post Two Diggs One Cup, Babblin5 states that:
Digg has pretty much taken a crap in a cup, and asked everyone, including even the top diggers, to partake in the offering. It now takes (barring a miracle, or a massive, collective pre-planned quick-strike diggfest), around 200 diggs to go popular, which leaves many (including me) to wonder… is Digg TRYING to drive away users, and if so, why?
The story went to the front page, and you can also read over 280 comments there.
Several other posts followed, pretty much on the same line, until Kevin Rose and Jay Adelson decided to join a live chat that other top Digg users were having. Tamar Weinberg did a nice coverage of that event.
Personally I think that the real results of this algorithm change will only be noticeable within one week or so. Before that time frame it is just hard to connect the dots and see any mathematical relationship between the events.
If nothing else this should signal that Digg is aware of the problems the system currently has, and it is trying to fix them, at the risk of upsetting some of their user base.
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