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Digg In the Future
jamie writes "A new site called Digg In The Future - created by 17-year-old high-school student Raj Vir as a research project - says that its algorithm can predict with 63-percent accuracy what shared links are going to make it to the front page of the Digg website. (Does it allow for brigades?)"
You don't need any software to know that this story will be posted twice.
Did it predict that the article on it would be on top of Digg?
Just redirect it to reddit.com
Does it clock diggs by going 88pmh? Thats how I would do it...just saying that is.
I can predict that this story will be one of those reaching digg front page (maybe it already did, but digg is too broken atm for me to go there and check it out)
If you post as an AC, don't expect me to spend a mod point on you.
I don't need no stinking algorithm to tell me that 95.1189% of "stories" posted on slashdot are crock of shit.
Fuck systemd. Fuck Redhat. Fuck Soylent, too. Wait, scratch the last one.
Oblig XKCD reference: http://xkcd.com/350
Could also say a 37% inaccuracy. The numbers don't differ that much. They seem closer to guessing than to certainty.
This thing probably just scours the internet for these keywords in stories:
Obama
Apple, Mac, iPad, iPod, Macbook
Marijuana
Obama
Police
Linux
Sex
Westboro
Funny picture, cat picture
Obama
I predicted I would find this article boring.
Not that it matters.
If the article has Apple in the title, there will be a good chance it gets a disappropraiate amount of attention.
I assume it'll be a lot less stories. The new digg revamp is absolutely terrible. It's impenetrable. Most of the useful features before are gone, it's half broken, with comments not loading, or links to your own comments not working. It shows you basically none of the information it showed you before, the new main feed is completely out to lunch. Apparently the "most recent" story on digg was submitted 2 days ago, and I know I saw it on the front page yesterday since they busted it. So digg is telling me since the upgrade, no one has made any story popular.
First setup a site that dispays random digg entries with "digg it" links, name it "digg in the future" and get some publicity. As the stories displayed get more diggs, your site gets accuracy > 50% even if selecting random entries.
it scans reddit?
It's called reddit.
"I have tried the reddit approach – and it is not nearly as successful as the current method. Yes, stories frequently hit reddit first, but a much larger number of stories reach reddit’s homepage and never even see a glimpse of Digg’s. The current algorithm takes into account popular URLs from twitter (which is even more predicting than reddit), but more importantly the effect of power users. Simply displaying reddit posts only would not yield results even close to the current 63%."
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Because that seems to predict what Digg will do in the future too.
... factors taken into consideration are what I like to call “power submitters” ... and “power diggers”... The algorithm also relies on other factors, Vir says, including the time of day (since stories submitted in the early morning hours are unlikely to reach the front page) and whether the link comes from “preferred” sites that appeal to Digg users
If people adapt their submission procedure to increase their chance of it reaching front page, it will drop the algorithm's accuracy initially, as submitters that don't fit the user profile suddenly match the 'best submission time criteria'.
The curve will then level out, and climb again, eventually increasing the algorithm's accuracy beyond the initial point as more people conform to the best criteria.
Not after their MeTooBook redesign. /checking out reddit
Digg seems to be heavily slanted towards news that falls into the "odd/strange" category and whatever useless viral videos happen to be hottest at the moment. It's the top-40 station of news sites, and it doesn't surprise me much that what will be posted on Digg can be easily predicted by looking at other social networking sites.
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The comments won't load. They also try too hard to make it like twitter(following newsfeeds, etc). It lost any unique charm it once had.
if (poster == "MrBabyMan") { return 100.0; }
And wow, I just checked their "front page" for the first time in a couple of months. This is not even the Digg I knew that I barely cared about any more.
#naabhaprzrag, #sverubfr-000, #agi-fcbafberq, negvpyr[pynff*=' negvpyr-ary-'] { qvfcynl: abar !vzcbegnag; }
Digg just completely revamped its site, basically killing Digg brigades and turning itself into a giant RSS feed.
Since end of 2005, I was a big Digger until yesterday's v4 release to production. I even got a free T-shirt for getting 300 stories promoted/vote up onto its home page. They didn't even change anything from others' and my feedbacks. I asked support about being to filter categories (e.g., World News and Politics), but they said it doesn't exist. No upcoming, no following, can't show 100 comments per load, etc. Well, frak that.
Why can't they keep the old design for old school users like /. did? If /. didn't have old design option, then I would had left /. long ago too.
No more Digg. Maybe they will add it later, but then it might be too late! I tried to use Reddit, but ugh its comment system, filtering, etc. are awful.
Does anyone know of other good places like Digg, /., etc. with good comment systems for socializing, submitting, customizing, geeky/nerdy, etc.?
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