At 2:45pm, PST, on 1-25-07, of the 15 stories on the Digg front page, 11 are from Diggers who have never gone Popular before. For two of them, it is their only submission ever.
This was bound to happen. The super-tight status of the Digg algorithm that occurred immediately after the algorithm change helped to prompt the stalled Digg Revolt. Jay and Kevin said that it was natural and that it would be tweaked. Someone on the chat during the live broadcast said it would be tweaked too much just to make sure everyone knew it had happened.
They were right, but not necessarily like they probably expected.
This will go back to someplace closer to normal. Do not expect that we have seen the final tweak on the algo for a while. For now, new Diggers, submit all you can! Old Diggers, maybe it’s a good time to check out the new subreddits for a few days until everything settles back down.
Pics or it didn’t happen? Here they are. Should make it easier to find if you go back to the time listed above on the Digg popular section.
See one of the results of the current state of the algorithm here.
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Old diggers, new diggers. I don’t care.
What I want to know about are the:
banned diggers, banned sites, secret editors.
The problem isn’t the algorithm – it’s the lack of transparency.
Digidave says true – when will KR & JA give us the straight dope on auto-buries, “The Bury Brigade”, banned sites and so on. Does “the community” decide on the content, or not? This IS a black & white ossue, there are no shades of gray.
Old Diggers, New Diggers, I know I care. Digg was biased enough against veteran submitters before and it kept things in check. Now people submitting for the first time are hitting the front. When I was new I know I felt the same way as some other Diggers: ‘why can’t I make the front with good content?’ Well, I’ve since learned that there is a trust factor too … people are more likely to give your content a chance if you’ve been around and voted and commented on other good content. If it weren’t that way, we’d all be sifting through thousands and thousands of submissions a day from scratch … and they we might as well be combing the entire interwebs without Digg