News Source: http://www.cornwallseo.com
Published: Sep 11, 2007 - 05:43 am
Story Found By: aimClear 1614 Days ago
Category: Social Media
7 Comments
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News Source: http://www.cornwallseo.com
Published: Sep 11, 2007 - 05:43 am
Story Found By: aimClear 1614 Days ago
Category: Social Media
7 Comments
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A community reflects the members. Digg is probably more similar to the general population than other places - StumbleUpon, for example, or Sphinn. The make-up of any community changes as it becomes more popular.
I don’t actually say that only crap stories win. More I was pointing out that some good stories take more votes to get to the front page because of the person who submitted. My point being that it should be irrelevant who submits, what gets on the front page should be down to the veracity of the story.
Digg is pissing off it’s best users: MSaleem, Tamar...
Well even here at Sphinn the same story is submitted, and 1 gets ALOT more than the other solely based on who submitted it. Just part of human nature, to go with whats familiar....
It’s not always based on who submitted it. Things like who submitted it first can have an impact, or whether it was submitted at a slow time of the day, then another version comes along during a busy time -- and the title and description plays a role.
@ Danny I know, its not always based on who submitted it. But just 1 example , 2 stories, one submited almost 6 hours prior, yet the later one, gets 5 times the sphinns. Agreed that timing, headline play a big factor, and an important one: But for example which one of these headlines whould you click on and why? Just for research purposes, I’d love to get feedback on this. Netscape Dead!! AOL euthanizes Digg-style Netscape - Netscape.com Dumps Social News Netscape is closing down social news. Really this time. We would be silly not to think that people in general will pull for the people that are famaliar to them, or the postings people think will get them more exposure if they sphinn or comment. But again, maybe Im just jaded!
The above is easy to explain. Here’s the first: http://sphinn.com/story/4928 http://www.socialmediatoday.com/SMC/17216 It’s basically saying over at Netscape there’s this news -- with a little bit of background around it. Now the one that went hot: http://sphinn.com/story/4905 http://blog.netscape.com/2007/09/06/upcoming-netscape-changes/ That’s a post to the actual news at Netscape. Since it points direct to the post, I think more people are likely to sphinn that. Also, the first example here must have been submitted later than the second one, because the story number is higher. That’s going to hurt, as well. People will have already seen that the news is there -- maybe at that point, it even went to the home page already.