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My 2 cents, Digg.com user since April 2005. I don't know if it was spam or all the format changes, each time a format change occurred users complained - a lot,

by dhughes 16y ago

My 2 cents, Digg.com user since April 2005. I don't know if it was spam or all the format changes, each time a format change occurred users complained - a lot, yet changes were implemented anyway. The highlight of Digg's history I'd say was the HD-DVD encryption key everyone put in posts refusing to back down I think that brought the users together. Then one day the user-base seemed to suddenly shift rapidly to the right almost overnight from a more centrist point of view, that cause a lot of friction and comment wars. Telling the people who use your website, some of who practically lived on the website, what they should like and not like design-wise instead of listening to them was disastrous and may have been the cause of Digg.com being abandoned by most of its user-base.

snupples 16y ago
I was there for about the same time period. In addition to the shift in the community, around that same time the front page began to be dominated by mediocrity (daily mail anyone?). If you checked the history on any of the front page submitters it was obvious they were all in massive vote-collusion rings. Articles in these rings would instantly hit the front page with 200+ votes. The front page became irrelevent, and on Digg -- as opposed to its competitor Reddit -- there was not much else. I stopped visiting months before the v4 fiasco, but even then it was already long apparent that the essence of what made Digg special in the beginning was long gone.
- dhughes 16y ago
  Even places such as Slashdot are hard to get submissions accepted but I'd say that's due more to the sheer volume of submissions, not as much in past years but I'm sure Slashdot has a large user-base they've got at least a good eight years experience over Digg and Reddit. I mean even Anonymous users can submit at Slashdot. I'd say it's more than having your funny cat picture or that article everyone has seen 20 times posted because it's new to you it's the fact you can submit your post and let the community decide what to do instead of having everything outright rejected instantly - it makes for hard feelings and no sense of community. Believe it or not I think Digg is actually getting better community-wise, it seems the rats have left the sinking ship. edit: I certainly don't mean Kevin!

by dhughes 16y ago

snupples 16y ago

I was there for about the same time period. In addition to the shift in the community, around that same time the front page began to be dominated by mediocrity (daily mail anyone?). If you checked the history on any of the front page submitters it was obvious they were all in massive vote-collusion rings. Articles in these rings would instantly hit the front page with 200+ votes. The front page became irrelevent, and on Digg -- as opposed to its competitor Reddit -- there was not much else. I stopped visiting months before the v4 fiasco, but even then it was already long apparent that the essence of what made Digg special in the beginning was long gone.

dhughes 16y ago
Even places such as Slashdot are hard to get submissions accepted but I'd say that's due more to the sheer volume of submissions, not as much in past years but I'm sure Slashdot has a large user-base they've got at least a good eight years experience over Digg and Reddit. I mean even Anonymous users can submit at Slashdot. I'd say it's more than having your funny cat picture or that article everyone has seen 20 times posted because it's new to you it's the fact you can submit your post and let the community decide what to do instead of having everything outright rejected instantly - it makes for hard feelings and no sense of community. Believe it or not I think Digg is actually getting better community-wise, it seems the rats have left the sinking ship. edit: I certainly don't mean Kevin!