Dell Pays Tribute to Digg with New IdeaStorm Site

Days haven’t passed after the Yahoo – Digg episode and Dell has already launched its own suggestion site called Dell IdeaStorm. It looks quite close to Digg, but the idea is no way related to promoting stories.

Why does Dell need a suggestion site?
According to the blog manager of Direct2Dell, they receive numerous emails with ideas and suggestion. Dell Ideastorm is a platform for customers to share their voice and get it votes.

Dell IdeaStorm is a combination of message board and Digg to bring out top ideas. Topics with higher votes move up and topics with lower votes move down in the community. Each vote is counted as 3 points and users don’t need to login for voting. In their blog post, Dell admits that the idea is based on Digg, but will it satisfy the Digg Mafia? Since anonymous voting are allowed, Digg fanboys won’t even have to register to spam the suggestion site. Let’s hope that Digg fanboys behave good with Dell Ideastorm and won’t repeat the earlier incidents.

On the other side, Ajay highlights the side-effects caused by Digg Mafia on Digg. Recent incidents like Hacking Netscape, then SuperGu and Yahoo Suggestion Board has thrown Digg reputation into the dustbins. Who will buy a community with hackers and badboys?

Via CyberNet

This post was published by on February 17, 2007

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  • http://bryansrants.com/ Bryan

    Hackers and bad boys is not even close to who these people really are. They are comprised of immature adolescent teenagers that think they are “hard core” because they are a member of digg.

    Hey teens, you aren’t special for being part of digg. It isn’t exclusive or anything. You aren’t that much cooler for reading technical articles. If anything digg has lost its ways and the readers are proving it. If I was a creater/mod of digg I would post some message on the site telling people not to do it. If they really worship digg like they say they do then they would read that and follow attention.

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