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Digg Town Hall Quick Recap
Allex - February 25th, 2008
Social news aggregator Digg held their first Town Hall tonight to provide updates on the company’s progress along with taking user’s questions. Webware’s Caroline McCarthy has a good recap of the entire Town Hall. Here are the quick stats they shared:
- 2.5 million active users
- 26 million unique visitors last month
- 10,000 submissions per day
- 200 million digg votes since launch
- There are no moderators – they do have one employee who reviews all stories to make sure they aren’t porn or illegal
- They have 10 developers
Did you watch the Town Hall? If so, what was your reaction? And check out our previous Digg coverage.
I found it interesting that they did admit to having a blacklist of sites that is matched with the upcoming queue in an automated process. But then, don’t worry, there’s no “auto-bury.” Well, I guess it’s how you define auto-bury. To me, that sounds an awful lot like what I would consider to be “auto-bury.”
But then, all they had to say is “fighting spam” and all is well. The crowd is appeased even if plenty of legitimate sites are auto-buried / blacklisted in the process.
Plus there was a quick nod to the “our hands are tied” excuse toward the end in reference to the fact that sometimes the digg crowd gets together and decides it hates certain sites/blogs. Too bad for those sites; they’re not welcome by however many of the tens of millions of uniques it takes for the sites to be blacklisted/auto-buried (I’m guessing probably somewhere around .00001% of the community can decide what is permanently not wanted by everyone).
To recap, legitimate sites can be (and have been, just not Engadget or Ars Technica, of course) blacklisted / banned / auto-buried (pick your term) because they’re a) mistaken as spam or b) rejected a couple times by an extremely small percentage of the community.
I bet those numbers will get publishers looking to find another site where its easier to get a front page submission. I can’t see it being worth posting to digg.
however with those numbers a clever number cruncher could work out the odds on getting a post to the front page of digg. They are fairly long odds.