cmdrtaco does have a point. These community news sites are great when the community reflects your views, but once the community grows they stake to not reflect your views.
One way to correct this is to only get news from a group that is similar to you (for some definition of 'similar'). One attempt to do this is my Wildfire application for Facebook which shows you news from your friends.
This problem would be solved if the recommendations, based on what you upmodded/downmodded in the past, actually worked (in reddit they never did). The book recommendations on amazon are often quite good, so it seems like this should be doable.
One way to correct this is to only get news from a group that is similar to you (for some definition of 'similar'). One attempt to do this is my Wildfire application for Facebook which shows you news from your friends.
http://www.jgc.org/blog/2007/09/problems-with-social-news.ht...
John.