Dont use it, doesn't work for me. But then I never liked spoonfeeding. The digg feed to stories I've dug on my ligit widget doesnt work either, I've written to them more than once. I regularly have to click more than once to log in to digg too.
Eyvind A. Larre
· 1 year ago
After FOWA where Kevin Rose held a presentation about the recommendation engine my first thought was that this engine is important when it comes to targeted advertising (wrote a blog post about it). I still have the same opinion and think that the company should focus on that aspect.
Nick
· 1 year ago
I find it's just an extra click to get to where I want to go, annoyingly.
Hanna
· 1 year ago
I totally agree with opinion expressed in the article! Tried to use digg few times - without any useful results. It's one more place were some people can express their emotions... Nothing more, at least - it does not work for me.
Richard
· 1 year ago
The only time I go to digg articles is when someone has provided a direct link to the article that they think I might find interesting.
Stuart Foster
· 1 year ago
Totally useless from my perspective. The service would only appeal to an extremely selective casual user. This isn't exactly the audience that Digg should be catering too. I also agree with the sentiment that it is an unnecessary click to get to the upcoming stories. Digg was working fine before the implementation of this system...arguably better.
Daniel Wood
· 11 months ago
I disagree. I am a casual user and because I don't participate in the digging process I end up with no recommendations. As a casual user, I just want to browse the top stories and the stories that have credible digg velocity.
The recommendation engine is probably good for people who take time to be part of the digg community.
Fabien Hinault
· 1 year ago
I can't believe the idea is pointless. It is the first try, they have to learn from it. Maybe the critical mass has not been achieved yet. Or the algorithm has to be improved. Anyway, even if this implementation does not work doesn't mean the idea is bad. I would really like a page with all the articles I want to read already filtered, and guessing it from what I have liked before, and from what the people who have liked the same are voting now seems a good idea. There were several search engines before Google...
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· 1 year ago
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sowhat
· 1 year ago
I'm sorry ?
Cure Dream
· 1 year ago
It sucks. It's made Digg completely unbearable for me. It discourages certain kinds of spam, but it seems to encourage junk posts without encouraging good posts.
I don't know why people get so excited about Digg. You're doing awfully good if you can convert Diggers at 0.10 eCPM... Barely pays for the bandwidth. I'm spamming other social media sites these days.
modemlooper
· 1 year ago
recommendation engine is code for we will send you advertiser content
GemStar38
· 1 year ago
I don't like the Recommendation Engine either. I would rather pick and choose the stories that seem interesting by looking at a list myself (as I was perfectly capable of doing in the past). Lots of times the stories that are recommended are not stories that I would choose on my own.
Caleb Brown
· 1 year ago
I check digg and my favorite digg categories (technology, science, etc.) far more often than I click on my recommendations, however every time I do I find at least 2 stories I find digg-worthy. Having a recommendations section is better than not having a recommendations section and I've found digg's accuracy far better than other sites I've used that try and guess what I'm into.
Muhammad Saleem
· 1 year ago
The problem with the recommendation engine is that it recommends stories based on all the wrong correlations. It is an affinity engine that seems to just be looking at which users you digg the most and recommends stories from them (or stories that are dugg by a large number of your friends). This means that the recommendation engine just exacerbates the circle-jerk phenomenon on Digg.
What they should be doing is running the same kind of correlations between user and category, user and sub-category, user and url (domain), and so on, for both diggs as well as buries. Then we'll get somewhere.
Eagee
· 1 year ago
Doesn't work for me, keeps comping up with silly articles about celebrities. That would be ok if I ever even glanced at those stories. I find it useless (unless you like tabloids I suppose).
Shady
· 1 year ago
Without the recommendation engine I still wouldn't digg upcoming articles. And i guess upcoming articles are being dugg up by a broader range of users than before the recommendation engine.
Mechine
· 1 year ago
The digg recommendation did work for me for abut one week after they opened up.
But I soon realised that if I dugg ANYTHING on the front page, I started getting recommendations related to the people who submitted those front page stories I dugg. Needless to say, after a few days or weeks of not really paying attention to who was submitting the front page stories I dugg, it was ruined it for me.
Just digg one or two front pages by the digg bots like Mr Babyman and your recommendations started getting filled with all his useless submissions. Since he and his kind submit everything under the sun, obviously I'm going to like some of it. But if I digg it, the recommendation algorythm thinks I want all his other stuff which is 99% crap. So, in theory it was good, but in practice FAIL.
Mired
· 1 year ago
It's useless, doesn't work for me.
John
· 1 year ago
Digg, as a whole, is becoming less useful for me. I basically use it as a time sink. If I have 10 minutes to burn I check the top stories, but the value of those stories keeps decreasing. I'd be better off going straight to Cracked and XKCD.
Esih
· 1 year ago
I don't want any lousy recommendations. I just want to be able to see the upcoming stories but to do that I have to digg stuff on the front page. Adding a digg to a story that already has several hundred is pointless. I'd rather be able to digg or bury the new stuff.
milsorgen
· 1 year ago
typed "marijuna" into digg. dugg every story with that word in it... just to see... buried every apple story... did it effect the recommendation engine? keep in mind i had no activity on the account. no nothing changed, well the links changed, but remained so far off what i was going for i failed to see the point.
Neither is your site, which you keep spamming in almost all blogs you visit.
Myrtle-Beach
· 1 year ago
Dear Huh,
I am a content writer for this site. Not offense was intended.
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shalb
· 1 year ago
The recommendation engine sucks. Most of the time I get less than 150 articles to browse through. Half of the time I hit next, I see the same articles appear. The other half I hit a halt as 150 articles suddenly turn to 50. I end up having to click the "all" button and then sort by number of diggs to filter out some of the spam articles. With over 10k articles total, 150 articles is less than 1.5% of what digg has to offer.
All Comments
The recommendation engine is probably good for people who take time to be part of the digg community.
I would really like a page with all the articles I want to read already filtered, and guessing it from what I have liked before, and from what the people who have liked the same are voting now seems a good idea.
There were several search engines before Google...
I don't know why people get so excited about Digg. You're doing awfully good if you can convert Diggers at 0.10 eCPM... Barely pays for the bandwidth. I'm spamming other social media sites these days.
What they should be doing is running the same kind of correlations between user and category, user and sub-category, user and url (domain), and so on, for both diggs as well as buries. Then we'll get somewhere.
But I soon realised that if I dugg ANYTHING on the front page, I started getting recommendations related to the people who submitted those front page stories I dugg. Needless to say, after a few days or weeks of not really paying attention to who was submitting the front page stories I dugg, it was ruined it for me.
Just digg one or two front pages by the digg bots like Mr Babyman and your recommendations started getting filled with all his useless submissions. Since he and his kind submit everything under the sun, obviously I'm going to like some of it. But if I digg it, the recommendation algorythm thinks I want all his other stuff which is 99% crap.
So, in theory it was good, but in practice FAIL.
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