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Call for Topics: Digg Townhall this coming Monday

blog.digg.com — Just a reminder to tune in next Monday night (Feb 25) at 9pm EST/6pm PST for our first Digg Townhall Webcast. Respond to this Digg story with your questions and vote up the issues you most want Jay and Kevin to discuss.

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  • FameMoney, on 02/21/2008, -69/+5Can't wait !!!
    • Nitesmoke, on 02/21/2008, -3/+41I'd like to see more detailed stats on how many diggs to buries I receive on comments, like a ratio. I saw some people talking once, bragging about their digg to bury ratios, but I've never been able to find out where to see that.
      • SpectralSounds, on 02/21/2008, -2/+13http://www.neaveru.com/digg/

        I didnt make it, but I use it.
        • Nitesmoke, on 02/21/2008, -2/+5Kinda like that link, but slimmed down, and integrated into my Digg stats.
          • nospinhere, on 02/22/2008, -1/+2There is a Greasemonkey application for firefox that will display how many diggs and buries each comment gets when you load the page. I can't name it off the top of my head since I am at work, but I am sure somebody else here knows.

            btw, one question I have: What happened to the big improvements in the comment system you guys said you were working on last month?
    • AndrewDB, on 02/21/2008, -4/+15Sorry for the comment abuse here, but the damn thing won't let me reply to the actual thread in the proper way..

      Hi Jay and Kevin, here's a topic I'd like discussed; Why when I bury something it still comes up on the page.

      I want the ability to bury something and have it not be seen ever again. Hence .. burying it. Is that all that hard to do?

      I also want the ability to bury certain sites from never coming up on my digg ever again.
      • kcap122, on 02/22/2008, -4/+3like say.....
        crooksandliars.... or the daily kos?
        • AndrewDB, on 02/22/2008, -0/+1Anything, if you set it, it'll be gone.
  • mentol, on 02/21/2008, -71/+4I'm already preparing for Monday
    • thatsmyaibo, on 02/22/2008, -3/+19By putting more bags of Cheetos in your mom's basement and stocking the mini fridge with Mountain Dew?
      • tripledjr, on 02/22/2008, -1/+6Hey if you replaced the Mountain Dew with something a little less anti-baby juice thats sounds awesome, I'd love to vedge out in my mom's basement with a whole lot of cheetos and some pop. Man those were the days, you didnt have to eat crackers and cheese and drink alcohol to be cool.
  • maheshee11, on 02/21/2008, -61/+3Eagerly waiting !
  • canewediggit, on 02/21/2008, -60/+44with a growing federal deficit, oncoming foreclosures in record numbers, and both a personal and business credit crunch on the horizon, what will you do to help us stave off a depression if elected?

    huh? isn't this room 385? sorry, wrong town hall.
    • TheFiestyFaun, on 02/22/2008, -1/+7Sorry your so deep that was actually kind of funny.
  • canewediggit, on 02/21/2008, -7/+102more seriously- can you fix my profile activity, history, and friend's activity sections? they show up with no activity way too often. friend's diggs in upcoming has never worked once for me.
    • ssn697, on 02/21/2008, -3/+11This has started working for me consistently (finally) just in the last week.
    • gbarberi, on 02/21/2008, -2/+11You must refresh the page like 15 times. That's what I do.
      • spyrochaete, on 02/21/2008, -6/+3I do this every time Digg pisses me off - like if I get the session expired error or the digg/bury buttons don't work. I just click and click and click to punish Digg's servers for not doing what I tell it to. I promise I'll stop doing this when it's fixed.
        • Kickasso, on 03/03/2008, -0/+1I bet Kevin and the rest of the team are crying everyday about your mean behaviour you mean interwebs bully.
    • actionmann50, on 02/21/2008, -1/+13I, for one, would like the upcoming sports video page not to redirect me to programming.
      • actionmann50, on 02/22/2008, -0/+7After submitting this bug for 2 months, 1 comment with 5 thumbs up got it fixed.
        • sbwms, on 02/22/2008, -0/+6We went back and found your emails. Sorry they didn't get turned into bug tickets! We're trying to get better at tracking all of the feedback emails: They now go to our QA department to be reproduced and turned into bug tickets.

          We noticed your reply in this thread because we were watching this page for Town Hall suggestions and, in particular, this thread about the problems with profiles. As soon as we saw your reply, we realize the fix was easy, so we applied the fix yesterday.

          Thanks for reporting the problem. Again, sorry we let your feedback emails slip through the cracks!
      • MikeonTV, on 02/22/2008, -0/+4This thread has seen more page views than the upcoming sports video page
    • philovivero, on 02/22/2008, -1/+9We made several changes this week (18 February 2008) that should have either entirely or almost-entirely eliminated the problems you describe. Have you not noticed an improvement?

      Also, why was your joke buried into oblivion? I thought it was funny.
      • perkonis, on 02/22/2008, -0/+1Well, I was going to post a comment about how much better those pages worked since you changed whatever it was you changed and thanking you for it.
        But I got an error in the process and had to reload the page. Ironic, huh?
      • Phisolo, on 02/22/2008, -0/+4I would like to see the addition of many more sub catagories, with the ability to add then to your front page or block them from your front page.
        Maybe this could give users to see more, less or none of each sub-catagory.

        So that the Apple, Ron Paul, Scientology, etc. fan boys can subscribe to their brand of fun, with out tormenting the unappreciative users to their idea of a front page story.

        Personally I would be a sucker for Apple, Robots, Green Tech, Ron Paul, and Obama pages, but I could would love to skip the Scientology and Wii stuff.
      • canewediggit, on 02/22/2008, -0/+4phil- thanks for the reply, sorry i didn't see it sooner. still having those issues, but i'll try clearing cookies now that i know you guys put a change in earlier in the week.

        and i fully expected that joke to get buried. it was still worth it.
        • Peavey, on 02/22/2008, -0/+1I said before, and I'll say it again.

          I thought it was hilarious.
  • FyreGoddess, on 02/21/2008, -7/+261I'd like to see the censorship claims addressed (the theoretical "auto-bury" function, blacklistings and what that actually means, superusers whose buries are so heavily weighted as to prevent stories from ever moving forward), as well as someone speaking to how it's possibly for stories to garner hundreds of Diggs without becoming popular.

    It would be nice to have something official and definitive that we laymen can point to instead of having to say "Well, probably..."
    • Skitzzo, on 02/21/2008, -2/+65along with that, I'd also like to hear some discussion about stories being removed by moderators or whatever you'd like to call them
      • gbarberi, on 02/21/2008, -1/+24"Invisible Admins" or whatever. Personally, it's not the editing I have a problem with. I want it to be more public and transparent. Can we review the moderators?
        • perkonis, on 02/22/2008, -0/+17Absolutely agree with that. I've been thinking that visible moderators coupled with a Slashdot-esque meta moderation on those mods would go a long way toward cleaning up some of the mess around here.
    • aburd, on 02/21/2008, -0/+7I would like to see a better "upcoming" system addressed. I don't think the new algorithm would be an issue if a diverse enough group of people could find the stories on their way up. Limiting it to 10 stories and list of the most recently submitted hurts the site's popular content, aka the currency of the site's top stories. Having a digg that isn't able to respond quickly enough because of this issue is more troubling to me than an algorithm that underweights the votes of friends. More people could make it to the front if they were given a way to get noticed, and I think an expanded upcoming section would do that.
    • Glugory, on 02/22/2008, -2/+5As an addendum to that, I'd like to see them address why all of the anti-Scientology stories (some of which have garnered hundreds and hundreds of diggs) will almost never make it to the front page now. Is there a Scientology bury brigade? Do they even know this is going on!?
      • gbarberi, on 02/22/2008, -2/+8No, I think Digg admins may be removing some to prevent the FP from being flooded with them. Doesn't look good for a Social News site if your FP is covered with stories on the same exact topic. No one would want to visit Digg.
    • EgaoNoGenki, on 02/26/2008, -1/+1Hey! Is there a LIVE CHATROOM for this townhall? Where?
  • redrighthand, on 02/21/2008, -40/+6I'd like to see a wider angle shot of Kevin and Alex on the couch. What's going on behind the camera and in the rest of the apartment?

    Also how bout finding a creative way to link Pownce to Digg?
    • thatsmyaibo, on 02/22/2008, -3/+3Why would we want to ruin did with the garbage that is Pownce?
      • Audacitor, on 02/22/2008, -0/+3Pownce ain't garbage. As social networks go, that one is the best. It's simple, utilitarian, and doesn't a have a stupid user base yet.
        • gbarberi, on 02/22/2008, -0/+2Apparently, you haven't been using it yet. I get friend requests like it's MySpace.
    • Sozzi, on 02/22/2008, -0/+3how about finding a creative way to link my fist to your face?
  • Skitzzo, on 02/21/2008, -12/+204I'd personally like to hear you guys address issues with the new algo. Specifically:
    - the high threshold for stories for average users as well as power users
    - the increasingly stale front page content
    - the fact that the aglo seems to penalize stories dugg by like minded people (if a group of people enjoys sports, doesn't it make sense that they'd digg a lot of the same stories? and yet, these diggs are somehow discounted because they don't get enough variation)
    - the fact that the algo seems to penalize the people that use the site most

    I think that's it for now. Thanks!
    • whereiswooby, on 02/21/2008, -7/+54Stale front page content. Dugg
    • gbarberi, on 02/21/2008, -1/+8I agree. Like minded-people is an equivalent of "peer review." Popular opinion does not make for quality.
    • misterpony, on 02/22/2008, -2/+3Personally, I like the pace of the frontpage content now...it allows more people to see the stories and get more diggs and comments. I think it's been a benefit to the quality of stories and don't see them as stale at all.
    • PodJumper, on 02/25/2008, -0/+1Ditto on like minded people, IE your gay fan base that make gay friends on digg the sports analogy works too. I think it should be fairly easy for something to get to the front page, then trickle down and possibly hit the front page again.
  • op12, on 02/21/2008, -6/+157We've seen the new comment system, when will it be rolled out?
    • joestump, on 02/22/2008, -1/+24I'm coding it right now. Well, not right this second as I'm replying to your comment. Micah and I have been working on the new comments for about a week (he's been doing JS prototyping and benchmarking for almost two weeks).
      • Audacitor, on 02/22/2008, -3/+12Benchmarks or it didn't happen.
      • Phisolo, on 02/22/2008, -0/+7I would like to see the ability to submit and vote on headlines. At least until the story gets to the front page.

        This could help with the inaccurate, misleading, misspelled headlines. As well as the poorly headlined submits, that link to an interesting or important page, but have really poor headline.

        I often find my self submitting something that has already been submitted, but it has such a bad headline that the link died on the vine.
    • quomen, on 02/22/2008, -1/+8Only two weeks? We've been waiting for almost a year...
  • soloride, on 02/21/2008, -37/+4Looking forward to it. I was scheduled to work at that time but I will be calling in sick.
    • kelowna4life, on 02/21/2008, -8/+29let me get this straight...your calling in sick to watch a townhall meeting about a random website on the internet....thats ***** up man..you need to get a life.
      • jaychuck, on 02/21/2008, -17/+2stfu.
        • digjam, on 02/21/2008, -9/+6Dudes got a point...
          WATCH IT AT WORK DUMBASS!
      • soloride, on 02/21/2008, -1/+13***** your right I need to get a life. I don't even have a job. I was lying about having a job to make myself feel better.
  • SeaMowse, on 02/21/2008, -19/+196I'd like to see buries become public. It might discourage to any sort of alliance formed (aka the 'bury brigade') to bury stories without good reason. Mixx uses it as a means to see who voted a submission up or down. If a person can see who likes a submission, then they should be able to see who doesn't, along with a legitimate reason for the digg down.
    • poordavey, on 02/21/2008, -3/+9I like!
    • Crosshare, on 02/21/2008, -2/+11I've always wanted to see this as well. I always thought it would be very interesting to see what my friends are burying (stories and comments) on a regular basis.
      • miggie, on 02/22/2008, -7/+4For what! They're buried because their repost, porn or they're just crapping stories. I bury a lot of crappy pictures and tons of porn in the upcoming section. I won't go into how many repost I bury. I don't want to see stuff that's buried.
    • gbarberi, on 02/21/2008, -1/+12I'd like to see them public so that users who spam Digg's queue can see just how many other users are burying their submissions. It would discourage them from continuing to spam.
    • KMye, on 02/21/2008, -8/+25Making buries public would utterly destroy digg within a week.
    • sgtpppr, on 02/21/2008, -3/+18I don't see any reason why it's ok to show who dugg a story but not show who buried it. It can only help the user base look for corruption among specific groups of users.
      • DeathfireD, on 02/22/2008, -7/+27OMG sqtpppr dugg down 2 of my stories! That bastard! *starts digging down everything he submits as revenge*.
        /end example
        Showing dugg down's is a bad idea for a number of reasons. However I feel we should be able to see out comment dugg up and dugg down numbers like displayed in the DiggRatting Extender grease monkey userscript. (screen shot: http://img141.imageshack.us/img141/5442/digglf3.pn g
    • Kev585, on 02/22/2008, -2/+21Making buries public has too much potential for abuse. They'll be users out there who will use bury information to either digg up or bury a users stories. The exposure of this disapproval is too negative.
      • MrBabyMan, on 02/25/2008, -0/+2Retaliation and abuse isn't currently a problem at Mixx, Reddit, Propeller and other social news sites where buries are transparent. I don't see why it would be a problem at Digg. Digg users are at least as civil as users on those other sites, aren't we?
    • misterpony, on 02/22/2008, -5/+22Wouldn't showing buries cause some major flame wars? How would that help Digg? I see that as a disaster waiting to happen.
  • Flashman, on 02/21/2008, -45/+11I have a question about Senator Clinton's stance on the Iraq withdrawal. Oh - wrong town hall? My mistake.
  • MrBabyMan, on 02/21/2008, -23/+228Can we get a moderated Digg user forum? We need a frequent, regular way for Digg users to communicate issues on a one-to-one basis with Digg administration. Ofttimes letters sent to support@digg.com result in no response. It's understood that Digg may be short staffed to handle support of nearly 3 million registered users, but a moderated forum may alleviate that.
    • SpeakerCity, on 02/21/2008, -25/+7Jesus, with as much time as you spend on this site, I'd assume you'd have it all figured out.
      • gbarberi, on 02/21/2008, -4/+23Seriously, not the right time for trolling. Give it a rest right now. How about we leave this one post alone and all be serious and conscientious Digg users. If you can't, just log out for the day and come back tomorrow.
        • optimusprime01, on 02/22/2008, -0/+7I agree with gbarberi. It's not time to fight but rather time to send suggestion, criticism to improve digg.
    • bamafun, on 02/21/2008, -19/+6Great Idea MrBabyman !!!!
      • miggie, on 02/22/2008, -8/+3No it's not mrbabyman just looks post crappy photos on digg and because of his millions of friends it gets dugg to the front page. If anything needs to be changed is that he should go!
      • bamafun, on 02/23/2008, -2/+1what about an upgraded member offer? I understand staffing shortages, but couldn't Digg charge $5 a year or something and you get enhanced support features including tech support and or support email access? I for one would gladly pay for this.
    • Skuzzlbut, on 02/21/2008, -4/+46I feel like the support@digg.com address just goes directly to someone's trash bin.
      • gbarberi, on 02/21/2008, -3/+14There's someone one the other end. I have gotten replies every now and then.
        • Skuzzlbut, on 02/21/2008, -1/+4oh ok, good to know - everyone i have ever asked has never gotten a response. Especially from small URL's and sites that find they have been banned before they have even really started.
        • gbarberi, on 02/21/2008, -0/+4I should be more specific, though. I only get those replies when I am reporting pornography and/or obvious comment spam.
    • optimusprime01, on 02/22/2008, -2/+5@MrBabyMan,

      I agree with you, but the question remains can Jay and Kevin convince digg users that forum will be transparent and will be answered frequently by them or any other digg resp, and will only be powered by digg users for questions, suggestions, comments and criticism.
    • rkzda, on 02/22/2008, -12/+5MrBabyMan, get a life first. You are one of those whiners.
  • bamafun, on 02/21/2008, -5/+93Please can we have a remove all old shouts button instead of having to delete them one by one and I'd also like buries discussed. Let's make them open !
    • akifbayram, on 02/21/2008, -14/+1The exclamation point is not another word !
    • sk11, on 02/22/2008, -1/+9How about we get rid of shouts altogether?
  • TalSiach, on 02/21/2008, -31/+1sign me in!!!!!!! can't wait!
  • chihpih, on 02/21/2008, -11/+62definately need to discuss censorship issues and auto bury that mysteriously happens for some stories
  • BigManOnCampus, on 02/21/2008, -6/+47I'd like to hear about a proposed code revamp that makes it so that threads/submissions with a high post count do not bog down any machine that I attempt to load them on because of how the comments are displayed. Perhaps there should be java-free-link to comments?
    • supermanred, on 02/21/2008, -19/+1machine gets bogged down? What are you running? What hardware and os?
      • BigManOnCampus, on 02/21/2008, -0/+8It really doesn't matter what machine I run them on. That's the point. I have a core-2-duo at home running Arch-64, with tons of ram, and the same threads still bog down and sometimes freeze the browser because of the thread display code. That's bloaty and for people like myself who enjoy commenting with other diggers, I think there should be a java-free-thread option, perhaps strip out the ability digg-up-or-down to make it work.
      • sputza, on 02/21/2008, -0/+8@Supermanred,
        BigManOnCampus has a great point. Since the new comment system, loading pages with tones of comments is really slow. I'm running Firefox on a Core2 Duo with 2 gigs of ram... and it slows down from time to time.
  • nirsguru, on 02/21/2008, -23/+0Yehawww
  • aslcupoza, on 02/21/2008, -24/+0:DD
  • JJ2K1, on 02/21/2008, -42/+6I'd like them to apply the same censorship to Obama stories as they do to Ron Paul.
    • telek0n, on 02/21/2008, -11/+6Obama gets diggs across a broad spectrum of users, Paul did not. I think that was pretty well explained in the new algorithm discussions before...
    • onetimer, on 02/21/2008, -12/+8Censorship? Could it possibly be that obama stories started increasing in numbers after he, you know, actually started WINNING primaries, while Paul was splitting delegates with the kool aid man?
    • Skitzzo, on 02/21/2008, -8/+12Hi, I'd like to introduce myself. I'm part of the so called "censorship" of Ron Paul stories. Because you and every other mindless supporter over ran Digg with so many stories about an idiotic candidate that never stood a chance, I've decided to bury any submission with his name in the title or description. Nice to meet you.
  • forgiste, on 02/21/2008, -37/+5Can you guys team up with Barack Obama and set up a section of digg where people can post and vote on suggestions for him when he gets elected? Doing so will set a precedent that could change politics permanently and it could help him get elected. Also add a patents section where people can post new invention ideas and let others vote on them and collaborate to make the inventions come to life. Please? You guys have the algorithm...
    • whereiswooby, on 02/21/2008, -6/+5digg is not the place for this..
      • cecinestpasvrai, on 02/21/2008, -6/+1What is? why not? It's got the user base already here. He's already been talking about something similar utilizing the Whitehouse website.
    • glibpaxman, on 02/21/2008, -2/+7digg should remain out of the political arena. i use digg for much of my news specifically BECAUSE it is not officially in the pocket of anyone (i hope). even though i support barack i would stop using digg if something like this was implemented.
    • sgtpppr, on 02/22/2008, -0/+2You mean digg should have a section where people gripe about the current government and what they should do? I think that applies to almost every single news story on digg in the comments. If there's a story about lolcats, someone will find a way to tie it to the government, how ***** a job they are doing, and how they would be a much better president.
    • forgiste, on 02/29/2008, -0/+1wow.. okay maybe I should rethink this..
  • nickspohn, on 02/21/2008, -23/+3I think keeping censorship they way it is now is fine. If Digg blocks lets say the word "*****", then people are just going to bypass it with words like fuk which is even harder on the brain yet.

    Shouldn't be an issue though if people could act mature.
    • IllBeBack, on 02/21/2008, -5/+9Mature people also use the word "*****." Being mature does not obviate the use of such language.
  • mhanley, on 02/21/2008, -6/+225Please, fix the Search. It is almost useless sometimes. I have searched for stories before I post them, only to find they are duplicates AFTER I post them.
    • BlackCow, on 02/21/2008, -4/+16Its better to use google's search engine.
      • Luminoth, on 02/21/2008, -1/+16And there's no reason for it to be that way.
    • frazier428, on 02/21/2008, -6/+1Just type;
      site:*what you wanna seach for*
      in google
      • Mitchum, on 02/22/2008, -0/+4Brilliant. And what site would you get your results from?
        It's actually [site:digg.com "query here"]
    • Tulle, on 02/22/2008, -0/+2Agreed. This is a huge annoyance and surely even worse for more casual users who aren't used to going straight to google (yes, I do realize what site I'm on). Please fix it, or hell, even just changing it to a google powered one would be sufficiently more convenient (though tacky looking).
  • jaychuck, on 02/21/2008, -5/+141. a small thing that bothers me is when i click on who dugg/bloged this article. when you click it, it goes straight to you're friends who dugg it, but this is already see who out of my friends dig an article by putting my curser on the digg amount. if you can, make it so i can see everyone who dugg it on the first click, not just friends.
    • jaychuck, on 02/21/2008, -0/+22Also, make Upcoming more noticeable to everyone else that doesnt go there. This would help out a lot.
      • miggie, on 02/22/2008, -6/+3Jaychuck are you insane? do you know how many people that would show? Why are you so nosy?
  • TearJerker, on 02/21/2008, -41/+64Kevin: Out of all the beers you had on diggnation, which do you think is the best? I'd like to hear your recommendation.
  • ericjbolt, on 02/21/2008, -30/+8Idea: merge Pownce with Digg?
    • jaychuck, on 02/21/2008, -10/+2this would be cool, but it would take far too long. hopefully this could be an idea they're thinking of though...
    • TheFiestyFaun, on 02/22/2008, -0/+1***** NO!
  • arunforce, on 02/21/2008, -20/+13I was wondering if you would ever plan on adding a filter so that I can filter certain annoying stories from the front page. (Ron Paul/Obama spam)
    • bryantk, on 02/21/2008, -3/+3Though this is ultimately unpopular to say, I could have easily gone a month without Ron Paul being blasted in my face everyday. I mean come on.. Ron Paul.. Really?
    • fhornplayer, on 02/21/2008, -1/+7They already have that. Click "customize".
      • arunforce, on 02/22/2008, -0/+5Yes because filtering a specific keyword is the same as removing an entire section.
  • dutter, on 02/21/2008, -8/+115Given the news in December that Digg engaged the services of a bank to find a buyer for the site, can you tell us if Digg is still up for sale, and what kind of interest has been expressed in the site?
    • coreyb, on 02/22/2008, -0/+2I have a few thousand bucks I would love to invest in a Digg IPO... hint, hint
  • JoeDiggsIt, on 02/21/2008, -10/+20Maybe stories that are under 10 diggs cannot be buried out of existence?
    • MackPrime, on 02/21/2008, -6/+2ding ding ding. you just fixed digg.
    • AndrewWiggin, on 02/22/2008, -0/+5What about when people submit porn or spam? They should be buried before getting 10 diggs...
      • JoeDiggsIt, on 02/22/2008, -0/+4Have you ever really seen those porn submission get ANY diggs? A better submission filter would solve that.
  • pdenman, on 02/21/2008, -11/+6i would like to hear your thoughts on the recent surge in "top 10" style diggs. every day at least two new diggs like this show up, and while i certainly enjoy them at times, i feel it could be cheapening the overall content of the site.
  • hsafeer, on 02/21/2008, -34/+1some serious topics ..

    why are YOU ghey ?
    • hsafeer, on 02/22/2008, -5/+0so far the answer is 22 .. do i hear 23 ghey diggers ?
      can you guys please answer the "Why" in my question also.
      thanks .. love the feedback.
      • camehoe, on 02/22/2008, -2/+1why am i ghey?
        you wish douchebag. Even if i didnt like the ***** you still wouldnt be invited to watch any lesbian sex
  • hadak, on 02/21/2008, -14/+11I'm annoyed by the fact that people will friend me, and then spam me with "look at *this* story" messages. I finally got so frustrated with getting an email every other day that I stumbled around to shut off the notifications. Something needs to be done about this.
    • jaychuck, on 02/21/2008, -3/+12disable shouts or disable email notification. we have this already.
      • luckyse7en, on 02/21/2008, -1/+5Can you disable shouts by fan? Its not 99% of fans, its that irritating 1% who spam.
  • ericjbolt, on 02/21/2008, -27/+2Idea: Merge Digg with Pownce?
  • telek0n, on 02/21/2008, -16/+4Can digg do anything about the insanely anti-semetic stories/threads that seem to go up at 2 am - or should they?
  • supermanred, on 02/21/2008, -8/+97I would LOVE to see the "shout" system as it stands scrapped. With many friends now all I get is spam after spam of links to posts which I can't even keep up with.

    I think a lot of us would like to be able to send private messages between users we flag as "friend"... As far as personal friends that also use Digg, I would love to be able to message them through Digg and say "Hey Greg, check out this story...pretty cool" but as it stands now our "shouts" to each other get buried in a tidal wave of shouts that come sometimes hundreds a day. Perhaps you would have to flag a friend as private message enabled to allow them to send you a message, thus bypassing the flood of shouts I get from my other Digg friends?

    Right now my friends and I recommend digg stories by emailing each other. With a private message system, we could do it right through Digg, and Digg wins by getting a crapload more ad displays and page views.

    Just a thought boys!

    Love Digg, Diggnation and the new Digg Reel... keep up the great work.

    Oh, me and my friends also agree that you should keep a graphic up on diggnation podcast relating to what story you are talking about. Sometimes we don't have enough time to watch the whole thing and would like to skim through and see what stories you are talking about but its a bit more difficult without an on-screen display.

    Again, keep up the good work. Digg has become pretty much the first site I check out when I get home. I really should just make it my homepage.
    • zephyr42, on 02/21/2008, -5/+2you don't love digg labs?

      heartless bastard.... /sarcasm
    • joestump, on 02/22/2008, -1/+12You can change your shout settings so you only get shouts from mutual friends. I did that and it did wonders for the shout spam I get.
      • bamafun, on 02/23/2008, -0/+2I did that too but ..... only after I realized how many would come in if I didn't .... now I have like 900 I need to delete. Is there any way to delete them all without having to do them one by one? I don't need any of the old ones... I just want them gone lol.
    • michael532111, on 02/22/2008, -0/+3Agree! The shout system needs some major modifications. An ability to send and receive private messages to users we flag as friends would be far better than the current stream of shouts.
    • KMye, on 02/22/2008, -0/+4Or maybe just scrap the shout system completely? It's nice to be able to send messages and flag stories between mutual friends, but I wonder if the trade-off is worth it. It seems to have entirely changed the way stories make it to the front page, and not for the better.
      • gbarberi, on 02/22/2008, -1/+1There's always IM. Scrapping the shout system will fix nothing. It's the users who are abusing them.
  • EmitStop, on 02/21/2008, -7/+60How about a way to sort through your old comments? So you could see which comments got highest dugg, etc.
  • HOTM, on 02/21/2008, -2/+77Whats up with the Podcast section?

    Most podcasts don't update, you can't digg/bury any comments, and it seems like it will be in beta forever(but that's very web 2.0-ish)
    • BlackCow, on 02/21/2008, -1/+5It would be cool to have it set up so we could find new podcasts instead of a list of the podcasts the majority likes.
      • miggie, on 02/22/2008, -0/+1I found two podcast I like and a web opera but I can't add them to the podcast section. Why is that?
    • richlizard24, on 02/22/2008, -2/+1Just get rid of it altogether.
  • en3r0, on 02/21/2008, -7/+46How about anything new with the Podcast section?
  • EmancipatedJake, on 02/21/2008, -18/+9I would like to see more women in bikinis walking around the site to make sure I am getting my digging done and maybe on Thursday nights I could take one of them home with me.
    • digjam, on 02/21/2008, -9/+2YEAH make it women .. WITHOUT bikinis for me plz!
  • bluedog16, on 02/21/2008, -11/+38I'd like to see a "Doing Good" tab, which would collect stories that give users the chance to do some type of good in the world.

    We've all seen how the Digg community can unite behind a good cause when certain types of stories are posted. Imagine a tab that would host all the stories where people have the opportunity to help a worthy cause (EX: online charity auctions, write-to-congress opportunities, etc.).
    • bamafun, on 02/21/2008, -4/+4Another Great Idea !!!
    • actionmann50, on 02/21/2008, -2/+5I'm weary of this being used on partisan issues. For example, we all want global human right, but we may have different ideas on public policy, specifically legislation.
      • cecinestpasvrai, on 02/21/2008, -0/+3It seems to me that Digg is not about being "even" between ideologies. It's about sparking some immediate common interest in a subject in any moment of time. The strength of the subject/discourse on Digg is (in it's pure form) an aggregation of interest in the form of popularity. "Doing Good", theoretically, should just be manifestation of what enough users agree with as important and worthy of attention, not what is to the Right/Left.
    • daFilms, on 02/22/2008, -1/+1Here's our chance...
      http://www.digg.com/software/Firefox_hits_500_000_ ...

      be the change, http://freerice.com
  • bthug7, on 02/21/2008, -12/+5Release the algorithm!!!!!!
    • bthug7, on 02/21/2008, -4/+3Transparency in government, good. Transparency on digg, bad? Why don't people want to know?
  • SpeakerCity, on 02/21/2008, -24/+29I'm tired of seeing MrBabyMan and MSaleem all over the front page.
    • Skitzzo, on 02/21/2008, -15/+8Says the person who's only submitted 11 stories ever...
    • thatsmyaibo, on 02/22/2008, -4/+16I agree with you. Aside from my vendentta with one of those people, I think digg needs to be more diverse. Having multiple stories on the first page is a popularity contest rather than a contest of content. The whole idea of digg 'elite' is ridiculous.

      Personally I think if digg wants to get back to the good content, the submitters name should be banked out.
      • AndrewWiggin, on 02/22/2008, -2/+1I agree that blanking out the submitter name would clean up content because the site would be more true to the sense that it was originally intended to be. However, people would care less about submitting because they get no credit. I think they chose the lesser of two evils.
    • richlizard24, on 02/22/2008, -2/+9It's bad when I see front page stories that are back-to-back submitted by MyBabyMan.
    • MikeonTV, on 02/22/2008, -4/+4But the content is worthy. You jerks just have to be quicker than that!
      • miggie, on 02/22/2008, -3/+2HIS STORIES SUCK! PICTURES OF LAME NAMES AND STORIES ABOUT POOP! HOW IS THAT FRONT PAGE NEWS!
  • brendanryder, on 02/21/2008, -20/+4ADs!!!!!!!!!!!!!111111ONEONEONEoneoneone
  • deadnoob, on 02/21/2008, -18/+3cash out and split the earnings?
    • bthug7, on 02/23/2008, -0/+2I heard digg is worth 60 mil. 3 million users, I like my portion.
  • digjam, on 02/21/2008, -31/+3I have one question for KEVIN ROSE!

    SIR, HOW MUCH DO YOU MAKE PER MINUTE?
  • Sun.Surfin, on 02/21/2008, -7/+94Why are stricter measures not in place to prevent 'superusers' from resubmitting stories already in the upcoming section? As it stands right now, superusers often simply see a story upcoming, resubmit, collect tons of diggs, bury the other submission.. it's hardly fair to the little guy.
    • makismagoo99, on 02/21/2008, -2/+38I stole this idea from something I saw on Reddit, but what about hiding the submitter of all stories for a certain period of time (one hour, 3 hours, whatever seems relevant) after submission? That would make the whole system more democratic and not favor the more popular users.
      • lucidguru, on 02/21/2008, -2/+4This would definitely hinder the practice of stealing upcoming stories, but it would gimp power users so much that they would leave.
      • Kev585, on 02/22/2008, -2/+11Hide user names till popular
      • anaesthetica, on 02/22/2008, -0/+5That wouldn't solve the problem. The problem is that people see what their friend have in the upcoming queue--most people don't simply wade through the upcoming section looking for interesting stories. The power users have lots of friends, and so lots of people see their stories (either highlighted in the cloud view, or when checking what their friends have dugg in upcoming). It's a structural problem: people only see that their friends (superusers) have submitted a story, and don't realize that it's a duplicate of some unknown user's story from 1 min / 1 hour / 1 day previous. You really can't solve it except by having superusers stop acting like dicks.
    • KMye, on 02/22/2008, -4/+3I know it's cool to see one of your stories hit the front page, but really, as long as the best, or at least one of the better versions of the story makes it, what difference does it really make which user submitted it?
    • coreyb, on 02/22/2008, -0/+4I really don't care if "my" story hits it or another persons submission, but it does kind of feel like my "popularity rating" or what ever you want to call it is getting a bit chipped when someone does that.... A part of me just wants the news to get read, but part of me is still ten years old and likes to be noticed.
  • laddr, on 02/21/2008, -5/+53Please discuss better options to get upcoming stories to the front page. Such as a random story appearing for easy digging for users on the front page. Maybe recommended upcoming stories on the front page based on digging history? This will allow a diverse crowd to help grow upcoming stories rather than a small hardcore crowd.
  • JonRohan, on 02/21/2008, -3/+12Will the Podcast section be incorporated in the front page like the images, videos, and news?
  • scaaven2, on 02/21/2008, -3/+156Can you let us delete our comments during the edit period?
    • mwomorris, on 02/22/2008, -2/+1It would orphan any responses to deleted comments.

      I propose allowing deletes within the edit period unless someone has responded.
      • gbarberi, on 02/22/2008, -0/+5That is what scaaven2 proposed. A user can not respond to a comment until it is out of its edit period.
      • EgaoNoGenki, on 02/26/2008, -0/+1HEAR HEAR!
    • BrendanSheehan, on 02/22/2008, -1/+1That's a genius idea 'scaaven2'. That or a "3 minute" edit period would suit me nicely.
    • Zero456, on 02/22/2008, -1/+2This has already been addressed: http://blog.digg.com/?p=107
    • digitalhippie, on 02/25/2008, -1/+2I would like the option of posting without editing as well. Just a thought.
  • ChrisPelletier, on 02/21/2008, -20/+2Anyone else read "Digg Downfall this coming Monday" ?
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