Digg vs. Habrahabr
All around whine: "Habr, Karma, Habr, Karma." But I ... tell you about Digg!
Namely - about the social mechanisms of Digg in comparison with Habrahabrom - based on the impression left by me after several days on Digg'e.
I understand that Digg should be compared rather with news2, but still Digg and Habrahabr have a lot in common, and these notes will be interesting to many who had previously only read Digg.
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The first impression - Digg is huge. Multiply Habr by 100 (including the number of idiots) and get Digg. New topics appear there every second.
The second impression - Digg is radically different from Habr in that the author's content is welcome at Habré, whereas in Digg it is considered a bad form to post links to his articles.
In other words, Digg is a great linkwashing machine.
The third impression - Digg is the mafia :)
No, I'm not joking. On Digg, your connections decide everything - not how interesting your topics are or how high your karma is (yes, Digg has something like karma, but more on that later).
Try to post even a super-interesting topic on Digg - you will receive a maximum of 4 votes until your topic leaves the first page of Upcoming in a couple of minutes. He just lost in the ocean of the same topics as yours.
Another thing, if you have friends. Good friends who will not fail to click on the "digg" button in front of your topic in your friend tape.
To display a topic on the main page, you need at least 60 diggs in a short period of time - which means you need to have about 200 American friends and post a topic at a convenient time for them to manage to write it down.
You can see this by viewing the profiles of users whose topics form the main page of Digg - many of them have thousands of friends.
But even a hundred votes will not raise your topic if it does not have at least one voice from top-poster. A top poster is a user who has at least one post that has visited the main one. The "karma" of a user is defined as the ratio of top posts to all user topics. In top users, this ratio reaches 80%.
Interestingly, Digg encourages "mafia" - the green tag among all topics are those topics that your friends voted for. Something like: “Hey, yes, here your friends were noted, and you vote for it!”
Many users in the profile direct text or transparent hints says: "Be my friend and vote for my posts - I will not be in debt!"
If on Habrahabr is drochat on karma, then on Digg drochat on friends :)
Friends on Digg is just a tool. It would be more correct to call them the term “followers” ​​- because it makes me a little confused about how to treat friends on Digg. If "friend" does not vote for your topics, then it is better to remove it from the list.
Many on Habrahabr complain about such dark sides of the “collective mind” as a herd sense and conformism - rejection of alternative points of view / criticism. So, on Digg - thanks to its incredible mass character - this is manifested most acutely. The rule for comments works: “if you can put a minus to your comment, you will get 100 minuses” I do not know, however, whether cons for comments affect karma.
I noticed that with the increasing popularity, more and more topic links appear, videos from YouTube and other “Lolz” - and interesting author articles are easier to get lost in the general stream of content. I really would not want Habrahabr to turn into Digg once - from a collective blog to a collective link trash - and the main page would be completely formed thanks to some kind of Habra Mafia.
Namely - about the social mechanisms of Digg in comparison with Habrahabrom - based on the impression left by me after several days on Digg'e.
I understand that Digg should be compared rather with news2, but still Digg and Habrahabr have a lot in common, and these notes will be interesting to many who had previously only read Digg.
')
The first impression - Digg is huge. Multiply Habr by 100 (including the number of idiots) and get Digg. New topics appear there every second.
The second impression - Digg is radically different from Habr in that the author's content is welcome at Habré, whereas in Digg it is considered a bad form to post links to his articles.
In other words, Digg is a great linkwashing machine.
The third impression - Digg is the mafia :)
No, I'm not joking. On Digg, your connections decide everything - not how interesting your topics are or how high your karma is (yes, Digg has something like karma, but more on that later).
Try to post even a super-interesting topic on Digg - you will receive a maximum of 4 votes until your topic leaves the first page of Upcoming in a couple of minutes. He just lost in the ocean of the same topics as yours.
Another thing, if you have friends. Good friends who will not fail to click on the "digg" button in front of your topic in your friend tape.
To display a topic on the main page, you need at least 60 diggs in a short period of time - which means you need to have about 200 American friends and post a topic at a convenient time for them to manage to write it down.
You can see this by viewing the profiles of users whose topics form the main page of Digg - many of them have thousands of friends.
But even a hundred votes will not raise your topic if it does not have at least one voice from top-poster. A top poster is a user who has at least one post that has visited the main one. The "karma" of a user is defined as the ratio of top posts to all user topics. In top users, this ratio reaches 80%.
Interestingly, Digg encourages "mafia" - the green tag among all topics are those topics that your friends voted for. Something like: “Hey, yes, here your friends were noted, and you vote for it!”
Many users in the profile direct text or transparent hints says: "Be my friend and vote for my posts - I will not be in debt!"
If on Habrahabr is drochat on karma, then on Digg drochat on friends :)
Friends on Digg is just a tool. It would be more correct to call them the term “followers” ​​- because it makes me a little confused about how to treat friends on Digg. If "friend" does not vote for your topics, then it is better to remove it from the list.
Many on Habrahabr complain about such dark sides of the “collective mind” as a herd sense and conformism - rejection of alternative points of view / criticism. So, on Digg - thanks to its incredible mass character - this is manifested most acutely. The rule for comments works: “if you can put a minus to your comment, you will get 100 minuses” I do not know, however, whether cons for comments affect karma.
I noticed that with the increasing popularity, more and more topic links appear, videos from YouTube and other “Lolz” - and interesting author articles are easier to get lost in the general stream of content. I really would not want Habrahabr to turn into Digg once - from a collective blog to a collective link trash - and the main page would be completely formed thanks to some kind of Habra Mafia.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/27526/
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