pylemountain
from pylemountain 1536 Days ago#
Good stuff - a lot of people have misunderstandings of Digg (just as I had). One additional thing I have no way of proving but firmly believe is that Digg "hand edits" certain stories (in addition to the algo.) to make sure they don’t make the front page.Why? Money from ads. Digg has certain types of stories they want on the front page and others they want to make sure don’t end up on the front page - they want stories that will facilitate the most advertisement revenue. No algo. is good enough to accomplish this objective 100% so why not hand edit? If I ran Digg - I would do it too. The only thing that bothers me about it is that Digg sort of advertises itself as this democratic site where more votes equals more success - where the "Digg Community" has all the power - but in reality it’s more like a dictatorship in the end.
Story: It’s The (Other) Algorithm, Stupid! Understanding DiggRank