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January 01, 2006
Cleaning Digg
Cleaning Digg: The popular link-recommendation site notes that it has become large and important enough to attract spammers and other abusers, and so is seeking systems to discard content which does not benefit the group. "We are going to be releasing some features that give administration of this fraud/spam to you, the users. In the near future, you will have the ability to join together and ban inappropriate content site wide (of course we have also come up with some systems to prevent this power from being abused)." Tricky problem... many web services are trying to harvest group decisions now, but the social dynamics change as the service scales up.
Posted by John Dowdell at January 1, 2006 12:34 PM
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Richard MacManus has an account of the backchannel communication about someone parasitizing Digg.
Posted by: John Dowdell at January 2, 2006 01:02 PM