February 2, 2007 at 06:07Digg will hide its activists
One of the most popular social sites in the world - Digg.com - is trying to cope with attempts to manipulate the results of voting for news. For this, the administration of the resource decided to delete the list of the most active users - Top Diggers.
According to project manager Kevin Rose (Kevin Rose), this was done in order to protect the "top diggers" from attacks from those who accuse them of manipulating the site. The list of Top Diggers appeared at the time of the inception of the site, when it was necessary to interest people in using it, attracting to establish connections with other users. Now, having recruited 900,000 active users, the resource does not need such lists, although the stimulation of social ties will continue.
Already more than once claims to Digg have been expressed in corruption and bias: there is an opinion that there have appeared groups on the site that in one's interests “raise” / “lower” certain news.
In addition, hiding the list of “top diggers” will help to some extent reduce the likelihood of bribing any of them. This has already happened , and information about attempts to bribe is constantly popping up (yesterday, for example, a letter from the site owner of BringPopcorn.com to Top10 diggers was published with a request to bring his site to the first page). In the absence of this list, finding the “right people” for potential bribe takers will become more difficult.
According to project manager Kevin Rose (Kevin Rose), this was done in order to protect the "top diggers" from attacks from those who accuse them of manipulating the site. The list of Top Diggers appeared at the time of the inception of the site, when it was necessary to interest people in using it, attracting to establish connections with other users. Now, having recruited 900,000 active users, the resource does not need such lists, although the stimulation of social ties will continue.
Already more than once claims to Digg have been expressed in corruption and bias: there is an opinion that there have appeared groups on the site that in one's interests “raise” / “lower” certain news.
In addition, hiding the list of “top diggers” will help to some extent reduce the likelihood of bribing any of them. This has already happened , and information about attempts to bribe is constantly popping up (yesterday, for example, a letter from the site owner of BringPopcorn.com to Top10 diggers was published with a request to bring his site to the first page). In the absence of this list, finding the “right people” for potential bribe takers will become more difficult.