What is Digg? What is Digg?

Digg Chinese translation for "digging", or "below", http://www.digg.com





Digg and Slashdot are actually two science and technology news communities, representing two different news-submission mechanisms.





Slashdot employs the administrator-driven (moderator driven) mechanism: Users submit news, and administrators review them to determine whether the submitted news appears on the Slashdot's home page, and Digg takes the user-driven mechanism , it sets a buffer for news sources, the user submits the news first into this buffer, and if the reader who agrees with the news is enough (Digg supports and approves of the news in a way that resembles a democratic vote), it will stand out from the buffer and appear on the Digg page, Otherwise it is gradually being squeezed out of the news source. Intuitively, Slashdot is controlled by the administrator, and Digg is delegated to the user. These two different kinds of news submission mechanism derive different community culture. Because of the user's high degree of autonomy, and effective integration with blogs and website, Digg has reacted very quickly to the latest network information, for example, when a new network service has been invited, a network service has been updated, a new product has appeared, and so on. Anyone can submit any interesting information to Digg (input to the information), anyone can comment on the information or vote (information processing), anyone can send this information through Digg to their own blog or website (information output). As a large number of users through Digg services for news information input, processing and output, in just a few months, Digg users and web traffic exploded, and gradually overwhelm slashdot. And as Digg grew, the challenge of Slashdot's voice began to ring.





Unlike Digg, any news that is submitted to Slashdot must be audited by a technician, so Slashdot's response to the new thing lags behind, and some interesting news may be filtered or overlooked because the auditor's point of view may vary widely from the general reader's point of view. The next comparison, it seems that digg more "progress" some, but digg in the user autonomy at the same time, there are many difficult to solve problems, such as often have some boring articles, or repeated articles are "recognized" and appear on the homepage, some comments are full of errors, Even a lot of technical errors are common, and this is because Digg is too low and the level of knowledge of the user base is limited. A similar situation is rarely seen in Slashdot, because the overall quality of its readership is very high, including geek and hacker, and professors and professionals who specialize in research at universities or other academic institutions. Although the technical staff of the audit some slow, but to ensure the quality of the news, after years of precipitation, Slashdot gradually accumulated a large number of high-grade readers, these are digg this short-term nouveau riche can not have.





Linus Torvalds in commenting on Slashdotter said: "Whether they understand or not understand, can always publish some so-called incisive remarks." In order to avoid slashdotter, he added, in fact, he has always been a Slashdot reader.





Although these are just some Linus jokes, but from another point of view reflects the Slashdot why attract people. In fact, the message has always been the biggest feature of Slashdot. Slashdotter around the latest internet technology, open source community, the development of unix/linux, copyright disputes and other topics heated discussion, the information it holds far more than the news theme itself, which in addition to some of the major related to the theme of the additional and wonderful play outside, There are also times when there are some inspiring ideas that benefit people. In contrast, Digg is shallow, and aside from some unnecessary saliva, it's hard to find meaningful speech, and because Digg's readers are mostly Windows users, it's very repulsive to unix/linux, There has even been talk of driving out of Linux news, which has had a negative impact on Digg to some extent.





　　So while a lot of fanatics are arguing about how to challenge Slashdot, it's really hard for Digg to shake Slashdot's position in the real sense, or rather, Digg's future path is difficult to intersect with Slashdot, Slashdot still take its own geek route, and Digg will absorb more and more netizens who are seeking the latest information and form their own culture.