So you’re digging around on Digg.com and you come across a great story but you havn’t fully made up your mind if it is digging material or if you should just pass it by. Maybe the story only has a few diggs and you don’t have time to search to see if it is a duplicate. Maybe it’s just one of those things you want to check out when you are our of the office or on a break. You may even come across an amazing story and the site is down because of the massive traffic it is receiving. What can you do about this?
Currently you could “bookmark it” in your web browser or maybe add it to a website like Del.icio.us for future reference but that just doesn’t cut it! Digg needs an option where you can bookmark stories or in the spirit of the whole digging scheme, you could add it to your pile.
You could simply click “Add to Pile” and the story would show up in a public bookmark area call the pile. At “The Pile”cop you could “digg it” “remove it” or just leave it in the pile for future reference. Since I suppose this would lower the number of diggs on stories, it may be wise to make some sort of a “compost” thing where the stories that are in the pile that are older than say 14 days are composted back into the “soil”. This would promote the “digging” tool again.
I would like to hear feedback on this idea or maybe some suggestions. I believe it would be great if Digg implemented this feature, but do you?