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Re:Reddit Terminal Viewer development is shutting down by Angostura on Monday June 03, 2019 @04:09AM (#20081284)
> They are literally making the same exact mistakes,

I haven't seen them make a formal system whereby publishers can pay to have their content autosubmitted and promoted to the front page. That was what killed Digg.

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Re:Reddit Terminal Viewer development is shutting down by archey1 on Monday June 03, 2019 @07:12AM (#20081995)
Reddit doesn't need this system there are plenty of vote farms that you can pay a miniscule amount of money to and they will do it for you.
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Re:Reddit Terminal Viewer development is shutting down by cubano on Monday June 03, 2019 @04:56AM (#20081485)
Ok..yes I'll admit I never even knew that Digg did that.

I thought Digg's vote system was simply being gamed by bad actors. The idea that someone at Digg thought it would be even a reasonably good thing to have the system you describe is totally bonkers.

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Re:Reddit Terminal Viewer development is shutting down by Angostura on Monday June 03, 2019 @07:31AM (#20082093)
Nice little summary here https://searchengineland.com/digg-v4-how-to-successfully-kil... It was really was an astonishingly cack-handed set of decisions.
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