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Friends-Only Digg
I had this idea recently, and with the advent of the new Digg profile features, I'm thinking about it even more.
Let's say you have a site that is basically the same as Digg. However, you make a few key changes. First off, you make the people the focus of the site, more than the news. The front page would be a list of recently active users, and not a list of news stories. Second, you only show people news that has been dugg by at least one of their friends. If one of the people who you call a friend diggs something, you will see it. If you digg something, people who consider you a friend will see it. Stories will spread throughout the network like a spider on his web. Instead of popular stories being splashed all over the web when they hit the front page. Also, you will never get to see how many times a particular item has been dugg. No story will stand out above any other, except for stories people bury. If one of your friends buries a story that you or another friend has dugg, you will have a strong visual cue on that story so you know one of your friends disapproves of it. Oh yeah, you will also only see comments on stories that are made by your friends.
Of course I didn't think of everything. It's a complicated thing. I'm just really thinking that this might be a way to a better Digg. No more worries about Digg spammers, unless you have friends who digg stupidly. If you have stupid friends, just unfriend them. Someone trying to spam the system would actually have to trick people into becoming friends with them. There would inherently be no automatic way to make something popular by making 100 accounts. You and your friends could even make a small and insular network of digging, not befriending anyone outside of that circle, and passing links only between yourselves with no outside line.
At the least, I think it's a cool idea, and you can actually get a taste of what it would be like by going to
http://digg.com/users/YOURDIGGNAME/friends/diggs
Let's say you have a site that is basically the same as Digg. However, you make a few key changes. First off, you make the people the focus of the site, more than the news. The front page would be a list of recently active users, and not a list of news stories. Second, you only show people news that has been dugg by at least one of their friends. If one of the people who you call a friend diggs something, you will see it. If you digg something, people who consider you a friend will see it. Stories will spread throughout the network like a spider on his web. Instead of popular stories being splashed all over the web when they hit the front page. Also, you will never get to see how many times a particular item has been dugg. No story will stand out above any other, except for stories people bury. If one of your friends buries a story that you or another friend has dugg, you will have a strong visual cue on that story so you know one of your friends disapproves of it. Oh yeah, you will also only see comments on stories that are made by your friends.
Of course I didn't think of everything. It's a complicated thing. I'm just really thinking that this might be a way to a better Digg. No more worries about Digg spammers, unless you have friends who digg stupidly. If you have stupid friends, just unfriend them. Someone trying to spam the system would actually have to trick people into becoming friends with them. There would inherently be no automatic way to make something popular by making 100 accounts. You and your friends could even make a small and insular network of digging, not befriending anyone outside of that circle, and passing links only between yourselves with no outside line.
At the least, I think it's a cool idea, and you can actually get a taste of what it would be like by going to
http://digg.com/users/YOURDIGGNAME/friends/diggs
Comments
Though, I do like your idea.
I'd like to do the graphics ^^
I find it a decent idea, but the problem is it'll either stay small, or it will just be Digg slightly changed so that you can only see the news through your friends diggs.
Anyways, there's a problem in your idea Scott. One has to befriend a submitter. You mentioned it on the show, the 1% rule. 1% creates, 10 % interacts, 89 % consumes. I can imagine a story being super awesome and being old news for the people who have a lot of submitters as friends, when it arrives to someone at the end of the line. Currently a lot of the people I have befriended on Digg (that's all the people here in the ID share thing) live in the US. And thus go digging when it's late/night here. And thus I see stuff you people dugg a day later. Now imagine this happening in the friends digg. Some european person has befriended a lot of americans, tons of them. 40% of them all digg one and the same super awesome story. And the other 60% don't see it for whatever reason. Then the next day said European person sees the story, diggs it, and then the other 60% sees the story. Time zones are a bitch in that case.
I'd be like a blog or other social networking site where all you do is link and look at your "friend page" with more links. If you only see your friends links, it could actually restrict your exposure to the internets (which may be OK).