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How Digg Gets Everything Backwards.. And How to Fix It

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alex3f:
You are welcome, housetier. I have a paper on the web explaining the mechanism these systems use. You may find it interesting: http://hbga.org/hbga.html

mouser:
nice elex!

another short related article: http://www.quazen.com/Computers/Internet/A-Complex-Governing-System-Needs-Constant-Update.-An-Editorial-on-Digg.com.1946

housetier:
short article, long url 

;D I just couldn't resist

mouser:
Interesting post up from Federated Media, which i guess is paid to promote Digg.com? or am i getting that wrong, maybe they are just a congolmerate of sites? sell advertising on digg.com pages.

One of the maxims of running a business is as it starts to get traction, folks will notice, and when they notice, they will start to question it. That's happening more and more here at FM...Had the poster done his homework, he'd realize FM has a large (12 and growing) direct salesforce, which is very focused on selling Digg, as well as all of our other sites...
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http://fmpub.net/archives/2006/09/digg_and_fm_get.php

alex3f:
Here is a case study of flickr that is somewhat related to this thread. It cites catering to the power users as a major success factor of flickr. It is quite likely that the same factor (or maybe strategy) played a major role in digg popularity.

http://www.startup-review.com/blog/flickr-case-study-still-about-tech-for-exit.php

Once power users realize their power to influence the project, they often become its evangelists and actively promote the project by recruiting new members. Promoting such a project means increasing their influence, which is a stong motivating factor. If the system is truly democratic, and hard to abuse, promoting the project only decreases the influence of each individual member. This might explain why truly democratic projects remain relatively small, while projects appealing to democracy, but allowing for abuse, grow very rapidly. However, this kind of rapid growth  doesn't necessarily lead to diversity of ideas and "wisdom of crowds" phenomenon as the project is not utilizing abilities of most of its members constructively.

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