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    Crowd Control: Netscape vs. Digg vs. Slashdot

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      1Crowd Control: Netscape vs. Digg vs. Slashdot

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      Netscape is hosted by editors, known as anchors, who choose the top stories for each section. Netscape covers a wide variety of global news.

      2Crowd Control: Netscape vs. Digg vs. Slashdot – Netscape

      2

      The story pages on Netscape allow users to vote on comments as well as the story itself.

      3Crowd Control: Netscape vs. Digg vs. Slashdot – Netscape

      3

      Coming soon: a chat tool that allows the audience to chat directly with the Netscape editors, known as anchors. Netscape also makes heavy use of tags for categorizing stories.

      4Crowd Control: Netscape vs. Digg vs. Slashdot – Digg

      4

      Digg does not use editors, and relies on the users to make stories popular. Currently, Digg covers a variety of technology topics, but the site will be expanding coverage to world news soon.

      5Crowd Control: Netscape vs. Digg vs. Slashdot – Digg

      5

      The Digg story page shows threaded comments, and users can digg other users based on the quality of their comments.

      6Crowd Control: Netscape vs. Digg vs. Slashdot – Slashdot

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      The venerable Slashdot is an editor-driven site, but users have extensive and edifying conversations in the comments area of each story.

      7Crowd Control: Netscape vs. Digg vs. Slashdot – Slashdot

      7

      Besides its ability to direct enormous traffic to a site, Slashdot is well-known for its meta-moderation system and insightful comments from users.

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