User/Submitter – Down with digg?
This post was published 3 years 1 month 18 days ago and its content may not be valid anymore.Talk about cheating the system. Digg users can now opt to be paid for shelling out their valuable digg’s or, conversely, paying to get their content dugg to the front page. How cool is that? If User/Submitter manages to stay up, I forsee a sea of crap making its way to the front pages of digg. The cost to getting to the front? $20 per story plus $1 per digg.
Paid digg armies. Who would have thought? [via]
Derek, KNOWS how I feel about Digg, and frankly this just exposes that blogs are not held to the same standards as most other journalistic outlets.
Ha, and the one time I checked Digg in the last month their front page has dupes in it. Gosh, has the quality dropped.
I’ve never understood Digg. I mean, I read a couple dozen blogs through RSS during the course of the day. Anything that is really that exciting will be filtered through to the blogs I read. I cut down on the chaff of the stuff like the screenshot above.
Not so viral anymore. 3…2….1…Start digg implosion.
I check the DIGG RSS every few days, and Ive come to the conculsion that basically DIGG Is becoming an index of the internet. People are working so hard to get their items promoted to make the front page, that basically anything that happens anywhere is ending up there. I suppose I could generate some new RSS feeds for specific items to limit the exposure, but it does seem that they are running into a problem with content quality, which is really only the fauly of the end-users.