Digg to tweak its algorithm
Cory Bergman September 6th, 2006
There’s been some rather convincing criticism of Digg that suggests a consistent handful of heavy users has teamed up to vote their stories to the home page, and as a result, reaping the benefits of a ton of traffic. The evidence is so convincing that Digg founder Kevin Rose has agreed to change the algorithm that determines how much and how quickly a story moves up and down the list. “This algorithm update will look at the unique digging diversity of the individuals digging the story,” Kevin explains. “Users that follow a gaming pattern will have less promotion weight. This doesn’t mean that the story won’t be promoted, it just means that a more diverse pool of individuals will be need to deem the story homepage-worthy.” Fascinating stuff, and worth watching as the lessons learned at Digg need not be repeated as user-managed sites become more mainstream.
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[...] The latest issue of Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox concludes that user participation usually breaks down to the 90-9-1 rule. 90 percent are lurkers. 9 percent contribute infrequently. And just 1 percent participate frequently, which ends up accounting for most contributions. (You may remember all the recent hubbub at Digg over the same inequity issues.) So how do you overcome the participation inequity? “You can’t,” Nielsen says, but there are ways to encourage more participation overall by making participation a side effect, reward participants and promote quality contributors, to name a few. “Your website’s design undoubtedly influences participation inequality for better or worse,” he writes. Good information. [...]
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