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What You Can’t Trust Social News Sites

by Riyad Kalla on 08. Aug, 2010 in Technology

I’ve written many times before about why I hate Digg, it’s weak content that gets to the front page, and why social news sites in general frustrate me.
Last week AlterNet broke a huge story on a fairly large group of ultra right-win conservatives that have formed a group with the exclusive goal of gaming Digg; [...]

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Why I Hate Social News Sites

by Riyad Kalla on 09. Jul, 2010 in Technology

NOTE: This is an anti-social-news site venting post. If that will upset you, please click away.
I have posted before about why I hate Digg, but to be fair, I hate all social news sites that rely exclusively on users up-voting stories.
I recently had my account at reddit banned out of thin air, so when I [...]

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This is Why I Hate Digg

by Riyad Kalla on 22. Jun, 2010 in Technology

As a small time publisher Digg drives me crazy.
The idea behind Digg is that “the people” will decide which content is important and which isn’t by voting on stories. I think this designed likely worked exactly as intended for the first month Digg went live and has since turned into a political dance of bullshit [...]

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Digg is Gamed by Retardation

by Riyad Kalla on 02. Mar, 2010 in Technology

Digg is an entertaining site, much like reading The Superficial is. I don’t turn to Digg for real news or hot topics unless I feel in the mood to pour through a 10:1 ratio of stupid shit to real honest to god interesting content.
Today I saw the “Top in All” list above and thought “Oh [...]

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UI Design Can Be Funny Sometimes

by Riyad Kalla on 14. Dec, 2008 in Technology

The other day I was posting something to Mixx (it’s a social news site, like Digg) and noticed on the submission confirmation page there was something interesting about the flow of additional “promotion” work I could do for my story:

It’s minor and I think overall (even this screen) that Mixx has an excellent UI across [...]

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