A lot of these social bookmarking applications will tailor the results you see by comparing your past votes with the votes of other people, and weighting the present stories based on similarities. It's not the only view, and not everyone does it like that, but it's out there.

The problem with these social sites is that they are overrun by a certain "class" of people:
* Reddit = socialist, liberal, godless
* Digg = immature pests

All of these social sites, or rather most of them, are populated mostly by geeks (it seems to me). This is probably because geeks are on the first wave of this kind of technology, and as it becomes more popular a more "common man" will begin to dominate. We...

A lot of these social bookmarking applications will tailor the results you see by comparing your past votes with the votes of other people, and weighting the present stories based on similarities. It's not the only view, and not everyone does it like that, but it's out there.

The problem with these social sites is that they are overrun by a certain "class" of people:
* Reddit = socialist, liberal, godless
* Digg = immature pests

All of these social sites, or rather most of them, are populated mostly by geeks (it seems to me). This is probably because geeks are on the first wave of this kind of technology, and as it becomes more popular a more "common man" will begin to dominate. We will also begin to see this kind of "social technology" take root in smaller communities, ala forums.