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How Spotplex’s “Trafficracy” Could Beat Digg But Probably Won’t

Will today's launch of Spotplex be the beginning of the end for Digg? Probably not, but this new social media site might prove a more civilized "trafficracy" alternative to the mob democracy of Digg.

For those seeking attention and traffic, Digg has long been the crowdsourcing 800lb gorilla. Unfortunately, explosive growth in the Digg community and a certain amount of paranoia on the part of its administrators regarding good verses bad story submissions has led to many marketers, businesses and bloggers of all kinds turning away from the once loved poster child of social bookmarking.

The Digg community is out of control. Nobody would argue otherwise, it just remains to be seen whether they can turn it around and get the more aggressive and abusive elements of the mob to stop frothing at the mouth long enough to realize that they're ruining the site.

Enter Spotplex, a site currently in beta that TechCrunch's Michael Arrington says "arguably sorts news in a better way than Digg does." The big difference between the two sites is that Spotplex does not require site owners or its own members (it has no members system, even) to submit stories. Instead, stories get added by carrying Spotplex's JavaScript code snippet on their pages. This allows Spotplex to monitor the traffic stories are getting and rank them accordingly. Heavier trafficked items rise to the top of the upcoming stories list, then make it to the homepage.

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Will today’s launch of Spotplex be the
beginning of the end for
Digg? Probably not, but this new social media
site might prove a more civilized "trafficracy" alternative to the mob democracy
of Digg.

For those seeking attention and traffic, Digg has long been the
crowdsourcing 800lb gorilla. Unfortunately, explosive growth in
the Digg community and a certain amount of paranoia on the part of its administrators regarding good
verses bad story submissions has led to many marketers, businesses and bloggers of all kinds turning away from the once loved poster child of social bookmarking.

The Digg community is out of control. Nobody would argue otherwise, it just remains to be seen whether they can turn it around and get the more aggressive and abusive elements of the mob to stop frothing at the mouth long enough to realize that they’re
ruining the site.

Enter Spotplex, a site currently in beta that TechCrunch’s Michael Arrington

says
"arguably sorts news in a better way than Digg does." The big difference between the two sites is that Spotplex does not require site owners or its own members
(it has no members system, even) to submit stories. Instead, stories get added
by carrying Spotplex’s JavaScript code snippet on their pages. This allows Spotplex
to monitor the traffic stories are getting and rank them accordingly. Heavier trafficked items rise to the top of the upcoming stories list, then make it to the homepage.

Click to continue reading…