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Re: So, How’s That Digg Recommendation Engine Been Working For You?

Daniel Wood — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 08:48:27 -0000

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.

Re: So, How’s That Digg Recommendation Engine Been Working For You?

Andreas — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 13:52:09 -0000

Here ( http://www.andreas-ittner.d... ) you can find a collection of scientific literature about recommender systems.

Re: So, How’s That Digg Recommendation Engine Been Working For You?

Myrtle-Beach — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 23:30:47 -0000

Dear Huh,

I am a content writer for this site. Not offense was intended.

David

Re: So, How’s That Digg Recommendation Engine Been Working For You?

huh — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 18:33:06 -0000

Neither is your site, which you keep spamming in almost all blogs you visit.

Re: So, How’s That Digg Recommendation Engine Been Working For You?

David Hucks — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 13:42:20 -0000

Totally agree.. This is not a good Digg app.

Re: So, How’s That Digg Recommendation Engine Been Working For You?

shalb — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 12:15:49 -0000

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.

Re: So, How’s That Digg Recommendation Engine Been Working For You?

jopemoro — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 18:09:27 -0000

People still use DIgg...?

Re: So, How’s That Digg Recommendation Engine Been Working For You?

milsorgen — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 16:09:59 -0000

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.

Re: So, How’s That Digg Recommendation Engine Been Working For You?

Esih — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 14:34:51 -0000

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.

Re: So, How’s That Digg Recommendation Engine Been Working For You?

John — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 14:05:42 -0000

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.

Re: So, How’s That Digg Recommendation Engine Been Working For You?

Mired — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 13:55:52 -0000

It's useless, doesn't work for me.

Re: So, How’s That Digg Recommendation Engine Been Working For You?

Mechine — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 13:38:47 -0000

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.

Re: So, How’s That Digg Recommendation Engine Been Working For You?

Shady — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 13:33:20 -0000

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.

Re: So, How’s That Digg Recommendation Engine Been Working For You?

sowhat — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 12:46:36 -0000

I'm sorry ?

Re: So, How’s That Digg Recommendation Engine Been Working For You?

Eagee — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 12:40:50 -0000

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).

Re: So, How’s That Digg Recommendation Engine Been Working For You?

Caleb Brown — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 12:07:08 -0000

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.

Re: So, How’s That Digg Recommendation Engine Been Working For You?

GemStar38 — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 11:54:39 -0000

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.

Re: So, How’s That Digg Recommendation Engine Been Working For You?

modemlooper — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 11:52:12 -0000

recommendation engine is code for we will send you advertiser content

Re: So, How’s That Digg Recommendation Engine Been Working For You?

Cure Dream — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 11:33:20 -0000

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.

Re: So, How’s That Digg Recommendation Engine Been Working For You?

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Re: So, How’s That Digg Recommendation Engine Been Working For You?

Fabien Hinault — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 10:09:25 -0000

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...

Re: So, How’s That Digg Recommendation Engine Been Working For You?

Richard Arblaster — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 07:23:54 -0000

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.

Re: So, How’s That Digg Recommendation Engine Been Working For You?

Hanna — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 07:16:11 -0000

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.

Re: So, How’s That Digg Recommendation Engine Been Working For You?

Nick — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 06:42:58 -0000

I find it's just an extra click to get to where I want to go, annoyingly.

Re: So, How’s That Digg Recommendation Engine Been Working For You?

Eyvind A. Larre — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 06:01:36 -0000

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.