User talk:Caelum
An excellent topic! One I wish I had thought of.
As a long time member of Digg, I am interested to read where your study goes.
From a personal perspective, I used Digg (way back) as a resource to promote websites, and help create links and "search engine juice" in order to get more favorable Google rankings for a large network of sites that I ran. Digg was a monster in its heyday, but its collapse seemed inevitable.
The voting system could indeed be gamed, and "voters" could be bought for pennies, causing massive upheavals across the board for certain articles and categories. This of course angered long time users that took their "job" of voting articles up or down very seriously.
As a resource, you may find this Wired article useful "I Bought Votes on Digg": http://archive.wired.com/techbiz/people/news/2007/03/72832?currentPage=all
This quote could help to dig further (no pun intended):
"As I understand it, to rise up the rankings it's not necessarily the amount of votes but the quality of the people voting. (apparently diggs algorithm bases this on things such as the length of time a user has been on digg, how often they digg, the quality of the posts they dig etc). "
Good luck and look forward to reading the final paper!
ErikaLRich (talk) 20:42, 10 March 2015 (EDT)
Reply to ErikaRich-
Thanks so much for your comment! As well as the links! Yes, me too. I used to spend a lot of time on Digg, until it just... got worse. I used Reddit for a while, but then work overtook me and I don't use it as much anymore. Thanks for the links, advice, and comments once again! Let me know if you think there's any way I could improve on this. (I'm very open to criticism) Thanks so much!
Best, Eric