While I'm not that fond of making waves about that or this web service, there's one thing that bugs me with Digg. I'm also sure, that this also is a problem for a new diggers and occasional diggers as well. I'm talking about new submissions.
As many of us use Digg, it has become bookmarking service, and social networking service. People use it to look what are their friends up to. But for a new user or occasional digger, all these things are either unknown or not that important. That leads to a following problems:
1. The new user will probably only see "first-page" items on Digg, which were brought there by heavy-diggers.
2. The new user submission will be buried in a million of similar ones in 10 minutes.
While one of my submissions came through the haze and showed up on the front page, I feel the same problem as well. You post something, watch as it gets 3 diggs, and you never see it again. This sucks.
So here's an idea. Took at the current state of things:
There's no chance that ~17K entries will be seen. I doubt if 1000 of them will be read at least once.
What Digg should have, is a sort of a hint for "digging" for new posts. An example of similar idea I found on Gentoo Forums:
