How many great stories are being missed because this flawed algorithm? It's hurting people for having loyal friends - digg decided "friend variety" is a good way to judge the quality of a story. And guess who has lots of random friends? Top users.
I'm the opposite: I submit news from *actual newspapers* but have a small ammount of loyal friends, so I'm punished.
It took 180 diggs for my Mccain story to frontpage. Yet Mrbabyman frontpaged with just 40 diggs recently. Kevin Rose admited it at the Digg Town Hall. (However yesterday Mrbabyman went 0 for 6.)
Of course digg should stop top users from spamming the frontpage, but "user variety" just isn't a good way to promote or punish digg stories.
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I understand your concerns. Digg says diversify, so we frickin diversify. The community likes the "Best Owl of the Year Story" well here it is. So I hate that I can't get great stories onto the FP. I go for what appeals to the masses... I didn't make the rules, I just try and play within the digg algo sandbox.
Zaibatsu
This has always been my concern. You probably don't remember - but when there was a big fuss about this I gave Reg, Andy and Mu lots of credit for standing against it - because in truth it won't hurt them. They can hang with it.
It's the mid-level users that will get screwed.
Spam is delicious.
Mostly agree. I am still active in Digg when it comes to voting and eading. But I belonged to the Digg middle class - and so, no more submitting of stories and trying to get diversified votes etc for me. But am I going to spend valuable days figuring out how I can diversify the votes I get - no way.
The way I see it, if the story is good, a few of my friends would vote for it - and then it should hit FP. That's an ideal world, I know. But there is a limit to the kind of time I can spend on analysing Digg algo and diversifying votes, so bye for now. Maybe will be back later when it gets easier for me!
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