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- cross-posted to:
- technology@beehaw.org
Digg was my favorite website of all time, what people today can’t experience is just how good the community was. I think that was due to the reputation system they used. A sufficiently advanced reputation system would fix a lot of problems with social media, with less censorship.
I have previously created a dating site, social network, custom forums, meetup-like event service, local classifieds, and a few video games. A few years ago as part of a 12-startups-in-12-months effort, I created a basic Digg-like site, livefilter.com. This doesn’t have the reputation system yet, but that would be the eventual goal. My first focus was on an efficient, fast, smooth experience. For example, videos play instantly, full screen.
It didn’t get much traction, so I haven’t worked on it in a while. I haven’t touched it in 3 years. What do you think, does it have promise, or should I give up? If people are interested and it becomes active, I’ll work on it more.
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Any sufficiently advanced reputation system is indistinguishable from magic
How does/did the digg reputation system work?
I wish it was still around, my memory is fuzzy and there are very few screenshots to go on. But I would make something more advanced anyway. Just going by comment likes is not enough. What I remember though, is Digg made ME want to improve my courtesy, to improve my score and therefore influence. That kind of system the world needs badly.
Well, if you were able to make it monetized and popular, it would be widely adopted by the owners of the servers.
I imagine a system where your upvotes are private but you have an dollar account populated via either ads turning attention into money, crypto turning your power into money, or a monthly donation, and at the end of the month, the balance of the account is evenly distributed between instances where you had activity.