Joe Petviashvili

This isn't a cemetery stop burying everybody

“do you think HN is structure well enough to prevent it happening? Is there a special plan? Or do people just expect to have to move on when things go down hill?”

Research Question: Is a group more likely to influence people than an individual Hypothesis: If more experimenters are looking up, then more passersby will look up.

I 've had a quick look at the "about" section and I must admit I am confused: Is it a del.icio.us, a digg or what?

“As you increase your activity on Digg, the Recommendation Engine will get to know you better and will suggest more targeted content and Diggers Like You.”

“We’re proud to say that we didn’t do our research when starting reddit and hadn’t heard of digg until a few weeks after we launched.”

People pay them to pollute big social sites and get traffic, and they’re ok with being slammed for that. As long as they make money. The whole operation is complete with founder pseudonyms (Ragnar Danneskjold, Vasili Taleniekov), proxied whois records, more...

Unfortunately the rules to the game have never been under the community's full control. As far as we can tell, the rule-makers barely listen to us. The latest change in the algorithm, along with rumors of secret editors, auto-buries, etc., more...

Hey everyone. Believe it or not, the dedicated images section you’ve been waiting for finally goes live later tonight. Lots of changes in this release: New Universal Taxonomy New Images Crawler Sorting and Duplicate Image Detection

Notorious social marketing site SubvertandProfit, which pays Digg users cash for Digging stories, is expanding its controversial brand of promotion to eBay’s popular link sharing service StumbleUpon.

Hopefully as the site continues to attract new users, the magic won’t be lost.

a list of Digg clones on a variety of topics.

Reddit is very, very good at sucking you in. Any idle minute at my computer found me typing in www.re and selecting the first entry from the FireFox dropdown. Reddit sucks down those five/ten minute blocks in between tasks, then more...