3monkeys

Muhammad Saleem over at The Mu Life has put together an extensive proposal of improvements for digg. To summarize he proposes the following:

I have ordered the problems and the solutions from most pressing to least pressing (or most useful to relatively less useful).

1. Listening to the community
2. Creating a trusted submission platform
3. Retiring the Bury-Brigade
4. Preventing the community from mass blind-voting
5. Abating the Digg Effect
6. Solving the duplicate story submission problem
7. Handling content that isn’t safe for all audience

I agree with each of his points, I would have ordered the issues in a different order. Specifically, I would have listed number 6, Solving the duplicate story submission problem as number 2. It would be number 1, but without his current number 1, Listening to the community, everything else is irrelevant.

I would add to his suggestions a few points of my own. In no particular order, they are listed below.

• Opacity of burys, for both the type of bury and user.
• A review process for banned sites
• Completely ignore blocked users. Currently only comments are ignored while submissions are still shown.
• Improvements to load times site wide.
• Fully threaded comments.

Until next time.
-3Monkeys

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