Digg has moderators and gets more like Google every day
Everybody has known about the Digg moderators for well over a year but the story continues to upset quite a few Digg fans. Today Valleywag ran a story (rather ambitiously labeled as an “Exclusive”) explaining that Digg has moderators and linked to a 2006 blog post to prove it.
Kevin Rose responded with this comment:
Unfortunately ValleyWag never contacted us for the real facts.
FWIW, we have one site administrator on duty at any given time. Their main responsibility is to monitor and review stories the digg algo/backend has flagged as pornography or SPAM. With 20M+ monthly unique visitors and tremendous traffic implications, gaming Digg is something that is attempted regularly.
So, as we have since the beginning, we’ll continue to build tools and maintain staff that detect and remove spam/spammers – but most importantly, we rely upon you, the Digg community, to Digg your favorite stories and bury the ones you don’t like.
Moderators at Digg are deleting blatant spam stories but I don’t see them spending too much time with stopping stories hitting the homepage. Getting a spam story on the homepage is pretty much impossible because in the number of hours it normally takes it will get buried by too many real users.
Digg and Google seem to be getting more similar every day. They both favour trusted domains and employ editors to remove spam and sites they believe are either trying to game the system or shouldn’t reach the front page/top of the rankings.
Google has a sandbox and a minus 30 penalty to deal with untrusted sites and Digg has an auto bury algorithm.
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Patrick Altoft is Director of Search at Branded3, a Leeds SEO & Digital Agency specialising in SEO, Web Design, Development & Social Media.
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The people are digg are a bunch of nazis and everyone in the industry knows thatgoogle sucks
digg and google are only there for the big guy. little guys stories of the same quality get burried. its a classic case of rich / poor divide. big companies pay pr, small guys do it themselfs and get banned from digg. thats my experiences. 2yr digg account banned and stories submitted were removed from digg. i was a light user, occassional digger, comenter, submitter , voting for mates sites and vice versa (we are talking < 10 diggs per average story, most came from non friends)