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People share stories of what they endured as students in India. Warning: some of the stories in this piece contain disturbing depictions of sexual abuse. Mixx is a social news site like no other. It is both a personal and social news site at once. At Mixx you are always on the front page, even without becoming popular. Mixx lets you create a personal "Your Mixx " page. You will see the content of your choice on top. This system is based on categories, tags, groups and even particular users.
So, for example, you can choose my submissions as your content of choice shown at the top of your personal Mixx. Notice the stylish M at the right upper corner? I'm a Super Mixxer. This is very powerful. The feature is meant to deal with the duplicate story from multiple sources problem.
On Mixx all sources get a chance to be noticed because Supermixxers can connect them to each other. They will be shown as "related".
It allows me to add different perspectives to onesided or subjective story. A feature which will be gold once the election process gets heated up in the US.
Another feature just shortly introduced which is governed by Super Mixxers is the " breaking news " shortcut. On Digg you sometimes read a breaking news story hours or days too late, after it's not news anymore. On Mixx two Super Mixxers can decide together what is breaking news in order to circumvent the tedious process of waiting a while for enough voters to notice it and vote it up.
What makes Mixx superior to other news sites are also several other aspects: Localization. You can add where the news happened geographically. Thus users are able to read their local news too. Negative voting is visible. This is one of the simplest but most important differences to other socialh news sites.
There are at least three ways to contact and communicate with other users. You can "email them" via the internal messaging system called "Mixx Mail". If you email several users at once an instant discussion is formed in a way mailing lists work. Each user added gets also a "real email" notification with the message in it to their mail address.
You can unsubscribe from such a conversation in order not be annoyed by too many mails. When submitting a story you can notify all of your Mixx friends about it via the " Email This" function. You can even "select all" to contact them all at once. Of course you have to be very cautious about using this as notifying all your friends each time will either make them cease the friendship or overlook your notifications.
Some power users have sent me several notifications daily so I finally stopped to look at them as the were just too many. On the other hand I will check a notification of user who never or rarely sends me. I only once notified all of my by now friends at once, with this bleak message. Also you can submit a particular story to one or several groups. For instance I won't annoy everybody with every single SEO story. I can submit these to the SEO 2.
Normal users won't see them and get annoyed by "SEO spammers" ;- How Mixx Power users Make Submissions Popular Still many people want to get to the front page or become popular on Mixx like on the old school social news sites. It's possible and it isn't as difficult as elsewhere as the threshold for stories is around 30 votes up currently while images or videos need even less votes, images only 10!
Although I have followers already it's not like all my stories get popular. The contrary is the case. When I submit images sometimes it's enough to become popular. As I don't care most of the time it's OK with me.
I use Mixx in a different manner, as I wrote in the beginning. Power users who see social news as a game nonetheless strive to get popular each and every time. The secret of getting popular is fairy simple: Make enough people aware of your submission. This works bets as mentioned above with the "Email This" feature. If you use it wisely you will succeed, even promoting your own stuff. On the hand: Do not trick yourself. If you send out a mediocre story to all your friends it gets promoted to the popular section but almost no traffic will ensue.
A few days ago I "Emailed This" to several friends of mine after my submission has already 23 votes and only 4 hours left to get popular, yes you still have a time frame of 24h at Mixx to make a story popular, I emailed a story from my site which was submitted by someone else to a 12 of my SEO peers.
It become popular but it gained less traffic than the stories that get thee naturally. As Mixx has so many places to go and personal configurations many people, me too often, do not even read the poplar stories. Under the surface, Digg has 75 employees with plans to double this number by the end of and hundreds of servers. In the next section, we'll check out some of what goes on the behind the scenes to make Digg work.
Digg isn't just a news Web site. The Diggnation podcast reports on the most popular Digg submissions of the week along with other Digg-related news you won't find anywhere else. See Rev3: diggnation to learn more and subscribe. For a Web site that receives more than million page views a month May , Digg's technology framework is pretty streamlined.
As with any proprietary system, Digg's technical department doesn't just put it all out there for everyone to copycat. But there are bits and pieces to be gleaned. It allows multiple languages to converse over a system architecture with minimal translation hold-ups.
In the Diggnation podcast recorded on June 14, , Kevin Rose estimated the total number of servers in the area of A post in the Digg technical blog stated that the company has between 1.
According to the post, no one at Digg really knows how many servers the company actually has [source: Digg ]. Digg actually doesn't have to store that much since it deals almost exclusively in text, but Adelson reports that the current setup is infinitely scalable. In a Mad Penguin interview in December , Adelson says that Digg is "doubling the infrastructure every month to keep up with the demand.
Within this system, users submit and Digg stories and utilize all of the other features available on Digg. Digg doesn't use any cookies , only server-side storage, so all of your user data past Diggs, friends, comments, etc. You need to actually log in when you get to the site, which in practice may act as an initial security measure to ensure user validity for each visit. There are a number of legitimacy checks, which Digg calls " karma checks ," built into the system at different points:.
There is no censorship of submissions beyond letting a user turn on a profanity filter that blocks curse words. And Digg manages "buries" the same way it manages everything else -- with a proprietary algorithm. The system runs a "de-promotion algorithm" that determines when a reported story is ready to disappear from the main site pages.
All of this sounds very democratic and forward-thinking, with Digg moving us further down the path of the populist Web that turns regular Joes into entrepreneurs , reporters, editors, stock traders and encyclopedia contributors. But a bit of a hubbub in mid called Digg's utterly user-driven nature into question -- at least in the minds of a select and verbal few.
In the next section, we'll look into the user response to Digg. This more than doubled the amount of money raised by Digg since Kevin Rose founded the company in [source: Rocky Mountain News ]. People race to be the first to post a great news story on Digg; Digg routinely features "diamond in the rough" stories that lead to the discovery of a little-known blogger who's doing quality work; the site's users, for the most part, seem to be genuinely and selflessly interested in promoting the best stories and burying the worst.
In theory, the user-driven nature of the site creates a news venue that's difficult to corrupt, at least by large corporations or over-zealous editors. Of course, some would disagree, especially about that last point -- the presence vs. In any Web-based community, there are going to be complaints. In Digg's case, the biggest one for a long time was about the article comments, which are often just rude or silly, not thought-provoking or conversation-starting.
But in the typical fashion, as the Web site has grown, concerns regarding the potential for abuse have grown with it. These concerns mostly deal with the fraudulent Digg activities we mentioned in the previous section -- spamming, fraudulent accounts and auto-digging.
Another possible abuse involves the marketing potential of a Web site with no editorial control. Unscrupulous Web site owners could post seemingly irresistible stories just to get Digg users to click through to their Web site, generate page views and increase ad revenue.
Such a buy-out would presumably send Sun's stock price sky high. The article submissions appeared in quick succession, there were at least four in a single day, and Diggers promoted several of them to the front page. In each case, the Diggers appeared to be the same people.
In fact, there was no truth to the rumor, and some have wondered if those posters were trying to use Digg to spread a false rumor that might boost Sun's stock price in order to make themselves some money.
It's dealing with more than a million visitors and 1, submissions a day. But Macgyver's ultimate complaint -- the one that started the mini-battle that was reported on tech blogs everywhere -- wasn't about any of that. It started small and quiet.
Macgyver, a frequent submitter to ForeverGeek and to Digg, discovered a strange thing on Digg -- two stories submitted by the same user with nearly identical Diggers in nearly identical Digging order got promoted to the front page, and one of the Diggers for each story happened to be Kevin Rose. While Macgyver drew no conclusions, the obvious one to draw was that Digg had missed an instance of auto-Digging. The added strangeness of Kevin Rose being one of the Diggers is more difficult to explain, and Macyger left it at that.
He posted his observation on the ForeverGeek blog. In a somewhat strange move, a ForeverGeek reader not Macgyver submitted the blog story to Digg. The next thing they knew, the story was un-Diggable effectively buried and the ForeverGeek URL was banned -- users could no longer submit ForeverGeek stories. The buried story soon disappeared from the site entirely. In the official Digg blog, Kevin Rose posted a response to the controversy , essentially stating that there was nothing funny going on.
He said that he Diggs stories he finds interesting, and if auto-Digging was occurring in that instance, he didn't know about it.
ForeverGeek was banned, he said, because it was breaking Digg policies against spamming and fraudulent accounts. Macgyver didn't let it go, calling Rose's response a " non response" and continuing to question the very premise of the Web site -- its lack of editorial control -- in a running account of the event on ForeverGeek. Soon and without explanation, ForeverGeek was unbanned from Digg.
This little unresolved episode aside, Digg seems to be doing just fine in terms of traffic and funding, and it has plans. The latest version of Digg includes new categories encompassing all types of news, not just science and technology, as well as a "Top Digg Users" feature that lets you check out the activities of the most active and therefore influential people using the Digg Web site.
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