Earlier when I wrote this post 4 things Digg V4 should consider removing, first thing which I mentioned was Digg auto RSS submission. This may sounds like a good feature for publishers but it degraded the overall experience of Digg and concept of community submission.
Today digg sent Email to all it’s publisher informing them about removal of Auto RSS submission by next week. Here is an excerpt from official Email:
RSS submitted content is not performing well on Digg. For many of our users, RSS submissions take the fun out of finding and submitting great content. When users try to submit a story to Digg and find that the story has already been auto-submitted via RSS, they lose interest in helping spread the story on Digg by commenting and sharing with friends. In the next week, the feature will be disabled. We wanted to give advance notice of this change and encourage you to start submitting your best content manually to Digg.
Overall it’s a good move from Digg community by removing auto RSS submission. As this will increase the quality of content and more over you will find content from publishers who are actually active on Digg and not only using auto submission feature. Though since the launch of Digg V4, Digg lost more than it gained. Meanwhile Digg also launched new version of it’s design and you can find all the details about new Design here.
Do you think it’s a good move by Digg to remove auto RSS submission? Also do you think one should do the same for their Twitter profile?
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Auto RSS submission definitely reduces the quality of content.
I didn’t got any such email, and now I have manually digg my content…
Because of auto digg option I don’t need to remember one more password… :p
No doubt. Its a good move by removing this feature.
When it comes to Social networking or bookmarking sites, always human edited or added content will be useful and interesting for others.
Thanks for sharing.
Its really a good move to stop spam being sent to dig automatically.
really good move.
Hey Harsh, I’m glad to hear this news. I don’t think there is much future for Digg though. I use it but I don’t gain as much traffic as I used to in the past. I like StumbleUpon much better these days. Thanks for the update.
I think this is good . I have joined Digg yesterday
ya i agree. auto submitted content is not that great. great info
I too didn’t receive any mail
ya Digg las lost popularity after launching V4 version…
I was thinking the DIGG is close to dead but with this action, it can overcome the problem.
I think people are now preferring stumbleupon than digg now a days. During the years 2007,08 and early 2009 digg was at peak.
That’s a really good move by Digg. RSS Auto submission should never have been introduced at the first place.
manually better than auto submitted.. good news and thanks for share
This feature is not available on Digg any more