Hopefully you read, or will read, the article I wrote at the tail end of yesterday, as this is just a quick follow-up.
Browsing the most recent 10 pages of upcoming news in about 10 minutes lead to at least 5 easily noticeable users who were spamming in one manner or another. It’s probably just as well that I saw and buried them, as I have not found much on digg this morning to keep me occupied, aside from the article about Blizzard banning 105,000 accounts and taking 12 million gold out of the WoW economy.
This got me thinking. It would be nice to have an option to mark a user as a spammer. That way, you don’t have to worry about hoping you mark their articles as spam and that enough other people mark them as spam and that hopefully someone in the upper echelons of digg notice and do the same or block the site and or user. Marking a user as a spammer would be a simple way of saying “look, I believe that everything they have submitted is abusing digg and that they should be stopped,” but that’s just me.
While not spammers, there are those who submit duplicate stories. They seem to think that when digg tells them that a story already exists, that digg is obviously wrong. Or they don’t take the time to see if the story actually exists in case the URL is slightly different. Do you know how many times I’ve marked submissions about how “Robots could demand legal rights” or “Title of Harry Potter 7 revealed” over the last day, and most of them from http://news.bbc.co.uk news.bbc.co.uk? In this case, it’s partially due to the fact that the BBC site has multiple different links to the same stories, so all someone has to do is digg a unique url to either bypass digg’s “BTW, someone did this already” system or to justify to themselves why they can or need to submit it themselves. Really though, if it’s important and on a very popular site, like the BBC website, chances are someone already dugg it.
I also realized that what I should have done when I finished writing that article last night was wait until this morning to digg it. As the case is, I would have had more to add to it this morning.
Live, learn, wash, rinse, repeat.
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