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By: New Technology, New Rules, New level of Transparency « Bippity Boppity Blog

New Technology, New Rules, New level of Transparency « Bippity Boppity Blog — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 04:40:37 +0000

[...] out the role transparency plays on social news sites at the blog Herald. [...]

By: Transparency in Social News

Transparency in Social News — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 20:54:46 +0000

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By: ViNT // Vision - Inspiration - Navigation - Trends » Zogenaamde Web2-'transparantie' sterk overdreven

Fri, 29 Jun 2007 11:08:10 +0000

[...] role does transparency play in the users’ actions on these sites?’ Lees zijn hele analyse hier, featuring Digg, Netscape en [...]

By: Warning: Politics Can Get Messy on Digg at The Blog Herald

Warning: Politics Can Get Messy on Digg at The Blog Herald — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 11:20:30 +0000

[...] One of LGF’s main gripes is that their content is buried within minutes of being promoted to the front page. They conclude that it is “leftist totalitarianism” at work on Digg. I doubt it is that simple. The antics of the bury brigade are well known, and not isolated to politics. Apple fanboys frequently bury stories that shine a positive light on Microsoft. Nintendo fanboys do the same to Sony stories. I’m sure the bury brigade is playing a part in LGF’s plight to some extent. Furthermore, lots of stories are removed from the front page after promotion for perfectly legitimate reasons (i.e. enough Digg users decide that something promoted wasn’t appropriate for the front page). It is akin to a newspaper printing a retraction: embarrassing but necessary for the integrity of the community. Certainly greater transparency could shed some light on this. However, I wouldn’t rule out that many users are offended by LGF’s practices on Digg. [...]

By: Transparency in Social News « Universe_JDJ’s News Blog

Transparency in Social News « Universe_JDJ’s News Blog — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 07:04:14 +0000

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By: Ramblings from the Marginalized » Focusing on the social of social news and book marking

Wed, 14 Feb 2007 18:41:42 +0000

[...] A recent post on the Blog Herald caught my eye. It deals with the idea of transparency in social news sites (i.e. Digg, reddit, Netscape, etc…). [...]

By: Over the River » Untitled

Over the River » Untitled — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 18:25:56 +0000

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Wed, 14 Feb 2007 17:58:24 +0000

[...] batman batgirl The principle of transparency is regarded by many to be necessary in a successful democracy. Every day, people are demanding more transparency out of the media, business and government. Socially driven news sites are a step in that direction. They offer a level playing field where users come to edit news democratically. Read On… batman begins explosive powder recipiesread more | digg story [...]

By: AK.blog » Blog Archive » Transparency on the Internet

AK.blog » Blog Archive » Transparency on the Internet — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 17:21:45 +0000

[...] Earlier today, I was reading an article on Transparency in Social Networking that I found on Digg, and I found it somewhat disturbing. It was was discussing the topic of voting rings, voters that will vote up or down certain articles based on the topic, without reading the material. Digg shows who gives a positive vote, but conceals the identity of a negative vote. [...]

By: KirkH

KirkH — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 17:11:32 +0000

Yes, and we should make transparent voting booths on election day so people know who is voting for what.

“The more exposed we are to each other, the more we stand to learn from each other’s strengths and weaknesses.”

There is something to be said for anonymity, a cousin of privacy. There are a lot of smart people that only voice their unpopular but valuable opinion because they know they won’t be attacked.

By: DaXtermGuy

DaXtermGuy — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 15:51:15 +0000

I agree, with transparency comes trust. The only thing i disagree with in social media is the blurred line between opinion, rumor mongering, and actual news/facts and I think that’s something that can be easily solved and will be.

Not to mention transparency allows people to be more interactive with the things they feel are important. imagine is CNN, for example, used netscape’s or digg’s model. I wouldn’t have to endure 15 hours of 5 minute news and hear something interesting more often.

By: Dan Muresan

Dan Muresan — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 14:51:15 +0000

Good points. A small point: you mis-linked Netscape (ww.netscape.com leads nowhere).

By: GregPC

GregPC — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 12:15:46 +0000

I like your post very much. Transparency needs to be pervasive for social media to really take off. It would be good to know who’s got what opinions; but also who is doing the original posting and what their agenda might be. I don’t have problems with an agenda so long as I can factor it in to what I am reading. You mention that people want greater transparency from business, the government and the media – they also need to be prepared to be more transparent themselves.

By: Pebblebeach

Pebblebeach — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 11:02:44 +0000

Cool! Good point.
Can I translate this into my tongue language, and post it to my blog? Of course, I will credit the translated contents properly by linking it to yours.

By: V.N. Dank

V.N. Dank — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 09:44:10 +0000

Transparency is great. Retaliation for unpopular viewpoints by flaming or just plain rudeness (on Digg, Netscape, etc), can be somewhat moderated by a charter of rights and responsibilities like any democracy.

By: Transparency in Social News « Tons of Fresh News

Transparency in Social News « Tons of Fresh News — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 16:47:29 +0000

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By: Web Strategy by Jeremiah » Could NewsTrust be a Digg Killer? (More layers of content filtering)

Tue, 13 Feb 2007 16:07:25 +0000

[...] The most interesting thing to me at WeMedia wasn’t the conference itself, it was NewsTrust.net a non profit news aggregator. I ran into Rory and Fabrice the creators of NewsTrust at the WeMedia conference. It’s got at three layers or content filtering to bring you the news that you want, as I understand it, here’s the three layers that I know of. Update: I just noticed that the Blog Herald is calling for transparency in news reporting. I believe that NewsTrust may have some of the features that could help here. [...]

By: Derek van Vliet

Derek van Vliet — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 15:57:55 +0000

Great point, Mike. Can you give some examples of the retaliation you speak of? I can’t recall anyone on digg/netscape ever being retaliated against for voting on something.

Sure, flaming has gone on in some cases, but I don’t think that it has affected the democratic system on the sites. For instance, if someone flames me for voting on something, it certainly doesn’t change the way I vote in the future.

By: Mike K

Mike K — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 14:59:28 +0000

I would contend that another key principle of a successful democracy is the ability to cast a vote without fear of retaliation, i.e. in secret. You even admit this is a problem yourself with Netscape, when you say:

“The result is an increased level of ill will floating around in some areas of the community.”

On reddit, on the other hand, it seems the site owners are very concerned about trollbots and appear to have a desire to fix it. Most of the reddit userbase are in favour of keeping votes secret.

I think it is an oversimplification to say that public voting is by definition good, without investigating the issue further.