Bet ya didn't know: Digg.com uses moderators
Many sites are debating the merits of moderation versus no-moderation these days, and pointing to sites like Digg.com of examples of how users can create a quality site without moderation. A little known fact, though, is that Digg.com actually does use moderators.
Digg founder Kevin Rose said earlier this year that the moderators help fight link spam and that the site is still about 95% user-driven:
"There are systems behind the scenes that notify our moderators, who are watching the site, whether there’s any activity that we can detect. There are a few different methods that I really can’t get into, that we have set up to keep an eye on things. We can tell based on what the average of incoming stories is, stories with certain types of links, and we basically look at all different types of things across the site to get a good index of what’s going on - there are certain flags that are set up that notify us of certain types of fraudulent activity.
"For the most part I’d say it’s probably 95% user-driven, so the users handle most of that for us - which is really nice from the admin side, in that we don’t really have to have a large staff that’s policing the site. 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."
More on Digg's Ninja moderators on Inside Social News, which says moderators sometimes put articles on the home page even though they only have one "digg."
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