According to Naffziger's Net, Digg has unbanned all but 4 of the banned sites couple days ago. There are different speculations all over the blogosphere. In fact, the site seems very slow and not very stable these days; I have even seen a dugg story was broken into 2 halves. There is no words from the official Digg office regarding to the unbanned sites issue yet.
Michael Arrington of Techcrunch had a chat with Kevin Rose,
"Digg thinks they are winning the war over the problem of "grouping" behavior (where groups of Digg accounts are controlled or effectively controlled by a person or group and can push stories to the home page). The changes they've made to Digg over the last few months, Rose says, allow them to monitor grouping behavior and stop it before it can drive a story to the home page. Thus, there is no real need to ban any particular site from Digg. They are confident that if a story from a previously banned site makes it to the home page, it deserves to be there."
It sounds like Digg maybe studying the digg behaviour of their user groups in some kind and putting a final test to the new algorithm. My guess is that they might have further degraded the value of the friend's vote on a user's friend list, which remind me of their vision of creating a friend system that is based on a user interests.
2 comments:
The entire concept of digging is totally flawed due to the way it works where everyone can vote. Regular groups are not even needed as you can simply pass on payment on forums for people to digg a story, for like just 10 bucks you can get about 500 diggs done to your story on quite a couple of forums, taking in regards the amount of viewers digg has 10 bucks isn't that much of money for a little place in the spotlights like that, but all off the other sites are easily pushed down this way.
500 is not even needed in most cases to get it up to the main page though, so you pay even less and from there a lot of the regular viewers will even vote it up even further thanks to just giving it a kickstart.
psycho dude, I haven't seen anything like that with my own eyes, but I won't be surprised if these kind of things actually happened.
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