I had joined Reddit before I joined Digg. However I chose to become an active part of the Digg Community (My Mistake).
I started to learn how it works. Just within a week, some so called "Power Users" told me that I could only submit in certain categories and rest were managed by others. Even if I did I was told that my story won't hit frontpage in any case.
Then I realized that most of the Digg Frontpage is controlled by a group of users who just keep submitting whatever they find.
Though I was not able to understand why they kept submitting dozens of stories everyday, I did some research and found that they most of these users were marketers. If their stories kept reaching frontpage it would help them gain more fans and the more easy it would be for them to get frontpage. Then they would be able to get some clients who would be ready to pay them huge lumpsum for getting their stories on frontpage.
Another problem was that how would a user be able to get so many votes on his story. It is either luck or probably gaming it that would help you reach frontpage.
The Digg Algorithm is simple
- Huffington Post - FrontPage
- ArsTechnica - FrontPage
- XKCD - FrontPage
- Cracked - FrontPage
- BBC - FrontPage
But aren't there a million more websites in this world ? Why are they not on Digg. Unfortunately, Digg never tried to control the system. Its so called Unique Algorithm just prefers the system to be gamed.
Do you expect a user to get hundreds of votes without gaming the system ? Luck is another thing.
I shifted back to Reddit and submitted a story. Though the number of votes were less, I was getting lots of feedback in the form of comments on my stories. Btw reaching Reddit Frontpage is much easier and not frustrating as compared to Digg.
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Digg
FUCKING
SUCKS.
Before I started on Digg I visited a plethora of websites to set my daily news. Then I found Digg and realized that I could get all that news, and more, from one site.
I started submitting articles from my own blog, but didn't really get a lot of votes - oh well.
Then after several months, I realized I saw the same bullshit over and over and over and over and over and over again from the same people. Good stories got buried or linked through blogspam by someone popular. The idiots run rampant. The bury brigade is out in force. There is NO transparency. The algorithm changes constantly.
Then I found Reddit. At first, I was like, this is too simplistic, it looks terrible, the same stories are on Digg.
Eventually I noticed those stories were on Reddit /before/ they hit Digg. Then I noticed that, gosh, these stories are coming from different submitters, and cover a wide range of sites.
Needless to say, I never, ever visit the toxic hellhole of Digg anymore. Reddit isn't perfect, but it's much closer to what I want.
But reddit is so goddamn ugly
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