autorave/cyberculture

As you can see there is a huge disparity in the number of stories promoted and how viral those stories go. Ultimately, what's happening is that people whose stories almost always get 1200+ Diggs are getting throttled (for whatever reason) whereas people whose stories are routinely getting under 1000 Diggs once promoted, are being favored. It doesn't matter if we're taking about top users or not, because the end result is that lower quality content is promoted to the front page more often than content that performs better after promotion.

From the page: "Due to the anonymity that the internet provides, it is hard to establish trust with a person you have only interacted with on the internet. Many people who are not engaged in the social media space are perplexed by the friendships that are established online. For many, itâ€s a foreign concept that you can feel extremely close to someone you have never met. Through trial and error, you begin to realize who is loyal and trust-worthy and who is just there to pimp a link."

GARY GYGAX died last week and the universe did not collapse. This surprises me a little bit, because he built it.

I'm not talking about the cosmological, Big Bang part. Everyone who reads blogs knows that a flying spaghetti monster made all that. But Mr. Gygax co-created the game Dungeons & Dragons, and on that foundation of role-playing and polyhedral dice he constructed the social and intellectual structure of our world.