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Will another digg/reddit style application, create competition
There are two popular news posting sites where one can read unique news. Users upvote, downvote to their views. But lately Digg been accused of being biased and users moving to Reddit. In Reddit, the level of simplicity is great, its simple ( one page submission, unlike Digg ), load time is better unlike Digg.
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- jacquesm 17y agoThey are both still quite similar in spite of the outward differences. There must be a much better way to do this sort of thing. Diigo has some nice unique features. They all suffer from: - no good filtering for the user, everybody sees the exact same site - clique forming around a subject - immense group think issues /. also has some really good bits (meta moderation), a good 'friends' system But none of them allow you to import you own rssfeeds into the stream, there is no 'inbox' feature.
- bgm 17y agoactually on reddit, if you are not a registered user, you see the same content.
- jacquesm 17y agoI don't follow you. Do you mean to imply that when you are a registered user you see different content or that registered users and non-registered users see the same content ?
- bgm 17y agoyes when you are a reg user, you subscribe to what they call sub-reddits, or in layman terms categories.
- jacquesm 17y agoSure, but the 'sub-reddits' still show the same content to all viewers of the sub-reddits. There is no 'smart' filtering of the content to sort or discard based on your previous viewing history.
- bgm 17y agoFiltering as in, I want to see this content or, I don't want to see the content I saw the last hour?
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- mooism2 17y agoThere has to be scope for a different approach. Move beyond upvote/downvote to using I-found-this-interesting/I-found-this-boring to work out which links I will find interesting. Or something. Because when you try to work out what the community finds interesting by summing votes, the cat photos rise to the top.
- bgm 17y agois it not the same as up or down vote, but diff words
- mooism2 17y agoI'm basically saying that the votes should be counted differently. Current approach: * cat photo gets upvoted by 70 people * article about using Haskell to frob whirnicators gets upvoted by 50 die-hard functional programming enthusiasts and downvoted by 100 Java/C#/Ruby fans Current result: * cat photo appears at the top of the front page * Haskell article gets buried Better approach: * cat photo gets upvoted by 70 people, but their voting habits mostly don't correlate with mine * Haskell article gets upvoted by 50 people who mostly vote the same way as me, and downvoted by 100 people who mostly vote differently Better result: * Haskell article appears at the top of the front page when I look at it * cat photo still gets front-paged, but not so prominently
- jacquesm 17y agoYay, someone gets it :) Personalized news scoring and filtering.
- bgm 17y agoWould not that fail, if you are just a reader and a submitter only and probably just a vote here or there a day for something you really like
- jacquesm 17y agoIt would take some time. But like with every learning activity the more time you spend on it the faster it goes. In this case you're training a piece of software by showing it your responses to the input it presents you with. Over time it can get smarter. By correlating the activity of several users it might get smarter faster than if it just had you to observe.
- hellotoby 17y agohttp://www.mixx.com/ http://www.mixx.com/ is competing in this space as well.