I just wrote an article at my marketing blog, about the gaming element of Digg, and my take on the fact that a select group of top Digg users have a disproportionate amount of power on the site. In brief I believe that the fact that Digg provides a ranked public record of user’s contributions creates a sort of game out of Digg. This game environment actually improves the quality of content on Digg because users are given an incentive to contribute quality content. If you want to read more please check out the article. Please let me know what you think and share the article if you like it.
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Is Digg a Game?
December 16th, 2006 — Digg, Social Media, article, contributions, fact, game, gaming, improves, quality
Digg Article on CNet Inaccurate
December 13th, 2006 — Digg, article, cnet, reality, spammer, story, wrong
I recently read an article on CNet about Rigging Digg.
The article was an interesting read but contained many inaccuracies. I was going to blog about it in detail today but this morning I read these three posts that already explain what is wrong with the article and mirror my sentiments
Elinor Mills Embarasses Self, C|Net with Digg Article
CNet’s story about Digg needs a reality check
CNET Gets it Wrong about Digg Optimization
On a related note I was recently accused of being a Digg spammer.
