Digg fights back against manipulators

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Digg fights back against manipulators

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By Bendito (WPN reader) - Mon, 01/28/2008 - 11:18

Might work

I think that this idea might work, it seems to me that the opponents of this idea are the very people affected by such a change. The spammers who utalize their networks to spam specified content to the top. Good content will get to the top regardless of the new hurdles put in place, it might take little longer to get the new articles but at least they will be made popular naturally and not spammed.

By Iambetterthanu (WPN reader) - Mon, 01/28/2008 - 11:08

Bad Move

I understand where Digg / Kevin is coming from. I think on the surface their idea is good but only as an idea.

The problem is you're penalizing people who are good at digg. If some one is a good marketer and can do this on a consistant basis why penalize them for that? They are finding viable content that people enjoy. Yes marketers are taking advantage of the traffic but the content still needs to be good (People can still burry bad content).

This is really a huge mistake for digg. I have an account that isn't a power account but I dont think it is unfair that the same 50 people dominate digg, they do so because this is what they do well.

This would be like benching the top scorers in the NBA, so the 6th and 7th man on the team can score more points.