I have tried to have a psychological comparison of the users at digg and those at reddit. These comparison are based on the stories submitted and comments by the users.
At first have a look at the level of Reddit users. Many among the Reddit users are school kids
On the contrary, digg has most of its users as office workers or mature bloggers. Similarly, each has its own way of expressing differnce of opinion.
Finally, the thought process is entirely different. Have a look at the comments by reddit users and those by digg users.
If you disagree then have the luxury to comment. You may also read my discussion about the reddit bug.
Well one point is missing,
Kick me in the balls and call it fun.
Man, people are so cruel to Muslims.
Wish that if this could be the Obama's first day as a president.
Today i tried to add the reddit.com widget to the bottom of the articles for my blog. After adding the code snippet next to the digg button, i tested that whether it is working or not. After submitting it to reddit, i refreshed the page but found the same link in the widget saying submit this to reddit. I again submitted but no change. After submitting it for three times, i finally concluded that there is some bug in the reddit engine which is allowing to post multiple submissions for a single link which should not be the case as stated here:
if the site has not been submitted yet, clicking on the button will take the user to a reddit submit page, otherwise it takes them to the comments page.
My submissions are as follow:
http://www.reddit.com/comments/6t7s4/Criticizing_Propellercom_is_against_its_TOS_duh
http://www.reddit.com/comments/6t8al/Criticizing_Propellercom_is_against_its_TOS_duh
http://www.reddit.com/comments/6t8dh/Criticizing_Propellercom_is_against_its_TOS_duh
In short, one can have multiple headline and for a single story and can have more and more exposure. So it is more and more prone to spam. Lets see when reddit staff gets it corrected
I came across this very interesting topic that why Bush administration is so fucked up. Here are the contents of the post.
Over the past 8 years, the Bush Administration has had an unbelievable amount of blunders, missteps, mistakes, bungles, foozles, fumbles, muffs, and even some stumbles. The diagram below depicts some of the worst of these, which ones would you add? Which habits would you change or add?
The Propeller.com recent layout change pissed off many of its members. Its bugs, non-user-friendliness, horrible outlook and not issuing user manual created great deal of fuss. People protested by "Proping" the stories complaining the issues. But then the AOL team replied with a big "thank you" and removed those article as a violation of their Terms of Services. Same was the case with my story which was submitted to propeller as this.
then
If the situation continues for a week or so, I am afraid that Propeller.com would become a desolate place. I had been a fan of the previous Propeller which had great members and less spammers but now it has disappointed me and many others.
I suggest that propeller crew should have the option of switching between the older version and the new version if not reverting it back.
Lets see whether the transition of Propeller 2.0 to Propeller 0.0 proves to be successful or a mess.
I use some social media networks to check out the cool stuff running hot and to find out what interesting things are going on. Among these are, digg, propeller, mixx, del.icio.us etc.
Today morning when i tried to access my account at propeller, it had some strange announcement going on stating about some broadcast. And later that evening, when i tried again, i had a whole new Propeller. At first i thought of it as some cool color combination and a smart design but when i tried to navigate through, i found it really troublesome.
The previous layout was very convenient and easily accessible. Everything was so in proportion and easy to find. Have a look at the previous layout.
But with the new style, first of all my uploaded picture got misplaced (i guess it is misplaced as it is no longer there). Secondly, out of my 500 friends, only 113 are appearing. The other thing which i disliked about it was the points, comments, and submitted stories which used to appear next to a persons name is also not there.
Well, i might be acting a bit wayward or i am just not adjusting to it at the moment. Lets see whether people appreciate this new layout or not. If you also dislike the newer version then please comment here and digg or prop it ( Propping no longer available read this).
