Hi,

This is a new feature that I've bumped into several times on Digg, and I can see that Reddit has it as a standard, so I thought it would be awesome feature to have, in case news sites and bloggers start complaining about copyright and especially _authorship_.

Here it is: right now on Drigg websites a small URL is posted, which links to the front page of that external URL. This is great, because on Digg it doesn't link nowhere. On www.reddit.com, however, they went one step further and made it link to a list of all the links submitted from that domain. So, for example, a source that says news.com.au does not link to http://news.com.au website's front page, but links to internal list of all submitted items from that domain - http://www.reddit.com/domain/news.com.au
Of course, the "Popular"/"Upcoming" divide and all other sub-filters (top24h, top7d, top30d) still apply to this listing.

There are several advantages of doing it this way:
1) Authorship! _Different_ people can submit links from a given site or blog, and this way it is more clear that the submitter is not necessarily the original blogger or author of that article. So far I have noticed that some of my users are okey with submitting links from major news sites, but are cautios of submitting links to other's blogs, thinking that they may get "offended" and that those bloggers should do it themselves.
2) it kills 4 birds with one stone:
A) it displays the domain name, which is great for those news sites which allow the reprinting of their articles as long as they are mentioned as the source, and
B) It links to a list where ratings of all scoops from that site can be displayed, which will encourage News site and bloggers to post badges on their news sites and blogs (= more traffic!!!) and if the Navigation (Popular,Upcoming, top7d etc) can be preserved, that would be even more use to them.
C) It keeps people on our Drigg sites. A link to the front page of another external site on its own doesn't do much because the Scoop is already pointing to an article on that site anyway.
D) It adds an extra dimention to surfing through the content on Drigg sites, thus making content less "flat".

So what do you think?

Comments

taqwa’s picture

taqwa commented

I second this request. I didn't even realize that reddit had this feature but it's pretty sweet.

drupalina’s picture

drupalina commented

Theoretically, this shouldn't be too difficult to achieve given how Drigg module is already behaving. The URL (without http://www) can be made to be automatically written to a separate taxonomy vocabulary. And then this vocabulary could be instructed to behave in the same way that the "Sections" vocabulary is already behaving - so that the Navigation (Popular, Upcoming, top7days, top30days, etc) is still being displayed.

Frankly, having a Drigg site since the March and observing the dynamics, I come to realise that my site is not offering much value to news publishers and bloggers in my niche. (Bloggers don't want to submit new links because they know that a-la-Digg, submitting your own links is a bit of a bad taste, while other users feel shy about submitting other blogger's and small news sites' links because of the issue of Autorship - after all it's their avatar and username on display ;)). But if a feature like this could be put together, it would give a very good reason for new-sites and bloggers to put up a Badge that says "Find our articles on WhateverDrigg.com", because then it would be a link to a site which displays how popular their articles are with the readers. And that alone would be a valuable service to them, thus giving them a _very_ good reason to put that badge on their site, which basically means *free advertisement* from multiple sources, and more traffic for our Drigg sites.

Reddit has this (and I've seen other sites have such Reddit badges). And I know that Digg is developing something like this for their "Partners program".