877 karma · joined June 17, 2012
Provide a simple feedback form or voting system. It doesn't have to be perfect, these downloads are already hand assembled by someone each day. You aren't obligated to use all suggestions, or even the most popular, but use it as a feedback mechanism to inform your choices.
Also Buzzfeed has grown into a serious news operation, investigating many stories (Tennis Fixing), and breaking others.
It's the same thing in the restaurant world with tipping. Danny Meyer can assert that he's eliminating tipping because he can more fairly compensate employees, and I believe that's part of it, but the motivating factor is certainly the increase in minimum wage and its impact on the economics of the restaurants.
It's not built for you at all.
It's built for torrenters (and usenetters) who download massive collections of files, have them sit on local hard drives, and want easy ways to organize them and play them back. and it does an amazing job of that.