The return of the Top Users
March 25th, 2009
At one time, Digg featured a list of its top users.
According to Digg founder Kevin Rose, it was meant to encourage and recognize users who were submitting quality content to the site.
It was also one way for users to find and connect with one another. But after a few years Digg removed the list from the site (lists accessing Digg’s API can still be found online), claiming there were other ways to find friends with similar interests.
Needless to say, other Digg Top Users lists are still quite popular. Why? Because power users who spend a great deal of time on the site are competitive. Part of their success comes from other users recognizing their success. (Why else would they submit so much content? -Other than for money or other personal gain, that is.) These competitive users want to become Top Users – for public awareness and personal satisfaction.
And now it looks like the topic-specific social news site Tip’d is doing the same.
The financial social news site now features its own Top Users list. Since several top Digg users helped create Tip’d, I can only imagine the top users list was created for similar reasons. So, I’m interested to see how this plays out — if the list one day retires like Digg’s, or if it’s never an issue.
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