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Not really though, everyone knew that V4 was a terrible idea and they simply went forward without caring much for the community. I mean what kind of marketing r

by laberge 14y ago

Not really though, everyone knew that V4 was a terrible idea and they simply went forward without caring much for the community. I mean what kind of marketing research could you do to prove that using promoted stories is a good way to build a community?

SupermanScott 14y ago
"Promoted Stories" myth needs to end. It wasn't the case, there was a severe bug whereby a Regular Expression only matched RSS content. The Regular Expression acted as a gateway into the Popular Algorithm. I worked at Digg and I fixed that bug. It wasn't noticed before launch because we echoed the v3 popular stories into the beta version of v4. Digg was never paid for stories hitting the frontpage. And for all the flack it gets for this myth, it should have been.
- laberge 14y ago
  Well the fact rests, the community generally believed that there was a ton of promoted stories because, you guys never told anyone otherwise or did a poor job communicating. And im certain promoted stories did exist, I remember them clearly marked as that.
  - SupermanScott 14y ago
    Digg ads existed that were placed in the feed at slot 3 and 14 which were introduced in v3: http://about.digg.com/blog/ads-you-can-digg%E2%80%A6or-bury http://about.digg.com/blog/ads-you-can-digg%E2%80%A6or-bury They were ads that were pieces of content. Digg was in front of this trend with promoted tweets / stories.
- nowarninglabel 14y ago
  If you don't mind me asking, how good a job do you think John N. did? Did the buck stop with him on this engineering project?
smacktoward 14y ago
You can find a research firm to tell you anything you want. They may have to torture the numbers more in some scenarios than in others, but there's no shortage of people willing to take your money in exchange for telling you what you already want to hear.
- laberge 14y ago
  True true, but as we can see, that doesn't mean it'll help them succeed.

by laberge 14y ago

SupermanScott 14y ago

"Promoted Stories" myth needs to end. It wasn't the case, there was a severe bug whereby a Regular Expression only matched RSS content. The Regular Expression acted as a gateway into the Popular Algorithm. I worked at Digg and I fixed that bug. It wasn't noticed before launch because we echoed the v3 popular stories into the beta version of v4. Digg was never paid for stories hitting the frontpage. And for all the flack it gets for this myth, it should have been.

laberge 14y ago
Well the fact rests, the community generally believed that there was a ton of promoted stories because, you guys never told anyone otherwise or did a poor job communicating. And im certain promoted stories did exist, I remember them clearly marked as that.
- SupermanScott 14y ago
  Digg ads existed that were placed in the feed at slot 3 and 14 which were introduced in v3: http://about.digg.com/blog/ads-you-can-digg%E2%80%A6or-bury http://about.digg.com/blog/ads-you-can-digg%E2%80%A6or-bury They were ads that were pieces of content. Digg was in front of this trend with promoted tweets / stories.
nowarninglabel 14y ago
If you don't mind me asking, how good a job do you think John N. did? Did the buck stop with him on this engineering project?

smacktoward 14y ago

You can find a research firm to tell you anything you want. They may have to torture the numbers more in some scenarios than in others, but there's no shortage of people willing to take your money in exchange for telling you what you already want to hear.

laberge 14y ago
True true, but as we can see, that doesn't mean it'll help them succeed.