Digg has changed its algorithm
According to soshable Digg have changed their algorithm. I have a feeling that they have changed the algorithm because there has been a growing chorus of people who think the Digg results are decreasing in quality and that a lot of complete rubbish is being Dugg to the top for no real reason. Perhaps Digg have finally realised that to retain their credibility they have to ensure the quality of their results is high.
Or perhaps they want to take the control of the site away from a small number of very well connected super-diggers who are pushing loads of decidedly average links to the front page.
I have a simple idea that might help. What if the more you digg the less each digg was worth? That way well networked diggers who pushed each other stories to the top all the time would have less control over the results.
January 24th, 2008 at 4:08 pm
That’s a pretty good idea. In fact, I’m sure I’ve seen it somewhere before… by another leader in finding quality on the internet…
What you’ve got there is the social networking equivalent of PageRank. Just swap out “webpage” for “digg user” and “hyperlink” for “digg vote”. Every user gets a certain quota of positive votes (call it mojo or karma or whatever) for every N timeperiod (N = day or week or something) and they can spread it around, either thick or thin.
Nice one, Hubs.