Corvillus

1. Provide some information on bury actions

One of the biggest criticisms of Digg is the fact that stories keep mysteriously disappearing from the front page. There are conspiracy theories going around claiming that Digg is not 100% user driven because of this. Digg’s response is that people keep burying the stories from the front page, however a lot of people still don’t believe this. One way to get people to have more faith in the system is to actually show information about buried stories, even if it’s something as little as showing a bury count in the headline similar to the digg count.

2. Threaded comment responses

Digg’s current comment hiearchy system is lacking, it only has 1 level deep of comment resposes, so you always have to put some sort of notification (usually @username or some such convention) to clarify who it is you’re responding to. It would be much better if you could just reply directly to the comment you wish to reply to instead of the nearest top-level comment.

3. Fix the comment moderation system

For some reason, some users think it’s cool to go around and bury every single comment in response to a given article. This leads to a mess like the one illustrated by this post. I think a simple solution to this problem would be to allow users to set some sort of threshold for negative moderation by users in a given thread. For example, a user should be allowed to set his or her preferences so that all users in a given thread who bury 25% or more of all comments in it have their moderation actions ignored for the thread. This would help clean up this annoying problem where people go around burying all of the comments.