Feb

14

How Digg is Digging its Own Grave?

Filed Under Social Media Optimization | Posted By Sanjay Dhingra | Leave a Comment

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It has been pointed out that Social media giant, DIGG, is turning to be highly unpopular with some of their top users. It is quite funny that they are also the most loyal users too. Why is this happening? The following are the top 8 reasons why DIGG buries itself dependent on interviews with top DIGG users:-

1. Punishment of loyal users in Draconian ways.
Top users have their accounts removed, most of the time with no justification at all. It appears like the doubt of cheating is the basis enough. Just imagine having a government run like such way. People would go missing off the streets without a trace.

2. Digg Moderators Bury Users Posts.
If it’s not the mediators, then it’s software. Either way, submissions are obscured and taken off the lists eliminating any possibility of making the DIGG front page because of the total lack of exposure. This wipes out the possibility of real stories making front page on the basis of untainted content.

3. Conflict Of Interest.
Staff members are Diggers as well. In fact the boss of Digg is a digger. No one thinks that the boss man’s submissions would ever get buried by a DIGG mediator. In the corporate world this is known as complicity and conflict of interest.

4. No Transparency On Buries.
No stats on can be able to buried your stories or why DIGG buries your story. This alone is one major reason why Reddit.com is raking in the DIGG users in droves.

5. No Daily Limit On Shouts.
There are some users who shout your ears off and there is no restraint on this. If there was one aspect a DIGG user wishes for, it’s this only. So they simply turn off this aspect all at once.

6. Can’t Mass Delete Shouts.
This is such a simple aspect. Why not make this convenient for the users? DIGG is a very good concept but it look like they are turning to be a dinosaur with old technology.

7. No Great Stats On Who Dugg You.
Users are making choices to external websites to get into stats that are not accessible in DIGG. These are just easy stats that would be expected back in the Web 1.0 days.

8. No Notification When Someone Drops You As A Friend.
Once more this is a really easy aspect that is at present enormously wasting user’s time.

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