View Full Version : Great Digg Article: Duplicate Stories Idea/Solution!
adamzx
10-21-2006, 10:27 PM
This guy came up with a great idea to curb a lot of the duplicate stories that are submitted to digg, check it out!
http://insidesocialnews.blogspot.com/2006/10/duplicate-stories-idea.html
lordfoul
10-21-2006, 10:53 PM
Good idea might give spammers a front row seat though, at least until they were voted down.
nextgenxbox
10-21-2006, 11:32 PM
Nice idea. Email Kevin.
casework
10-22-2006, 03:38 AM
Yeah, that is a really nice idea.
_sorrow_
10-22-2006, 06:44 AM
I like the idea too -- especially with the addition of digging the specific articles.
stevesearer
10-22-2006, 09:08 AM
Hello :) I am the guy that wrote that post. Just wanted to say thanks for the positive feedback.
scott1
10-22-2006, 06:04 PM
Hello :) I am the guy that wrote that post. Just wanted to say thanks for the positive feedback.
What a Brilliant idea! This should be put in digg! It should also be made so you can digg those alternative sources, like digg comments so you digg the individual story and choose which alternative sources are better.
njshadow
10-22-2006, 06:12 PM
Yeah, this is indeed brilliant. Also, because lately I've been hearing about top Digg users duping othe people's stories and then making the front page with them. This would help give the Digg users a better choice other than coming across a duped story and not knowing that it was, in fact, a dupe. GREAT CONCEPT!
adamzx
10-22-2006, 06:24 PM
hooray for stevesearer!
hopefully this idea is taken into thought at digg
stevesearer
10-22-2006, 07:47 PM
I think part of the problem is that there are 5-10 credible sources (not blogs), like cnn, msnbc, nytimes, that all report on the same thing. So not only does this cut down on duplicates, it is a good way to organize all of the information available.
mseifullah
10-22-2006, 08:21 PM
Someone put this on Digg. I would but I've gotta run to work... ...on a Sunday :(
stevesearer
10-22-2006, 08:31 PM
Was up on thursday. Some good comments there too.
http://www.digg.com/design/Digg_Duplication_Solution_Linking_Alternative_Sour ces_To_Original_Post
If this could work, I think it's an amazing idea. Maybe even an automatic adding system for people who don't know it's a duplicate.
adamzx
10-23-2006, 01:55 AM
yeah this will help keep them from gaming it for sure
- there is a group of diggers that submit stories, and when they find that their story has already been submitted by someone else, they bury it to death and tell all their friends to bury it.. and then they resubmit the exact same story and get all their friends to digg it to the frontpage - it's a load of crap the way they are doing it and this duplicate stories/duplicate sources idea will definitely cut down on a lot of the gaming
ariastar
10-24-2006, 05:10 AM
I'm not reading this whole thread, so many be duplicating something already said, but I think a lot of people submit duplicate stories hoping that something about their magical submission will make theirs be the one that gets promoted.
That said, I like to idea of adding additional sources to a prior submission.
stevesearer
10-25-2006, 03:24 AM
I threw another idea onto digg that I think would be cool to have in order to save a link without having to digg it.
http://www.digg.com/design/Digg_Idea_Save_Stories_for_Later
Let me know what you think :)
bird603568
10-25-2006, 03:25 AM
how about digg is stupid to start with?
ariastar
10-25-2006, 04:44 AM
how about digg is stupid to start with?
Dude, you suck.
shanehensley
10-25-2006, 04:52 AM
Great idea! I like it. :)
bird603568
10-25-2006, 05:04 AM
ok ill change my mind if you guys tell me how its orignal or better than other places
adamzx
10-25-2006, 09:06 AM
I threw another idea onto digg that I think would be cool to have in order to save a link without having to digg it.
http://www.digg.com/design/Digg_Idea_Save_Stories_for_Later
Let me know what you think :)
oh HELL YEAH
I love this idea!
this would help speed up my computer lol.. cuz right now when ever I'm digging articles I want to read later on .. i just open them all in tabs and it takes me a few hours to go through them all.. I'll open them in the morning and I won't get to read them until late at night.. I use Firefox.. and I end up having like 20 or 30 or more tabs open for digg articles I want to go back and read
with the Save feature my Firefox won't hog all the resources anymore lol