Correction: Why Digg Needs MORE Moderators

ZDnet's Richard MacManus (a mac loving man from the U.S?) has done a two part interview with Kevin Rose all about, you guessed it, digg.com. It makes for an interesting read. I was pleasantly surprised to see such quotes with reference to the digg community's control over the site.

"But for the most part I'd say it's probably 95% user-driven..."

So people who whined and moaned about my XXL article about how digg.com needed moderators could just sit on it. But it gets better.

There are systems behind the scenes that notify our moderators, who are watching the site, whether there's any activity that we can detect.

So, wait, that means that there are already moderators, not so? That means I wasn't off base in what I was saying about how Digg Needs Moderators now, was I? But it gets even betterer!

"It's actually only one person who watches the site in general - it's not really that big a task because the community handles most of it."

So the general public didn't know about digg moderators, or a digg moderator for that matter, and my crackpot ideas were right on the money, but it's just a case of a good idea not properly executed. The thoughts, views and ideas in my initial article still stand since this good idea is still in effect, just not to the extent that it should be.

Interview With Kevin Rose, Part 1
Interview With Kevin Rose, Part 2

I now apologize for my longer posts and promise to keep posts to a reasonable length and colour in within the lines.

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