Comments on: Gosh, How Many Diggs Does It Take To Get To The Home Page, Anyway?

By: riccruz.com» Blog Archive » Kevin Rose responds to digg uprising

riccruz.com» Blog Archive » Kevin Rose responds to digg uprising — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 23:37:11 +0000

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By: 8 Websites Control Over 30% Of Digg’s Technology Section

8 Websites Control Over 30% Of Digg’s Technology Section — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 02:02:32 +0000

[...] 100 comments, but still wasn’t homepaged. It didn’t get homepaged until TechCrunch pointed it out and Digg probably didn’t want the negative PR from Arrington so they decided to add it to the [...]

By: Lenin Nair

Lenin Nair — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 11:04:38 +0000

This is indeed a new knowledge for us. Digg employing editors? That would make it hard for spammers anyway. Thanks, Digg.

By: Gilbert

Gilbert — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 17:49:07 +0000

Spoken like a typical eloquent republican…

By: knud

knud — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 13:53:53 +0000

I am working on a site which try to solve many of the problems with digg.com.
You can find it on http://crowdnews.eu.

The main problem with digg is the voting system.
When only top voted stories get on the front page it has
to be a subject that many can relate to,
which result in stories with a low information content.

Crowdnews solves this by using sharing instead of voting.
Every have a personal news page on which they can subscribe to other users and when those users share stories they will appear on the personal news page.

Join me on CrowdNews

By: Shashi Pinto

Shashi Pinto — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 09:39:49 +0000

I got my site up in google within couple of hours by submitting on digg.

http://www.amer...tycolleges.com/

By: NaldzGraphics

NaldzGraphics — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 14:50:37 +0000

Being the top in digg is the key to your success…

By: orangedog

orangedog — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 16:59:02 +0000

There does seem to be a lot of weighting toward powerusers. But they earned it by contributing to the system, right?

By: Bro Alex

Bro Alex — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 20:18:39 +0000

Digg is totally insane, the same 15 users keep on making stories to the front page.

By: Top Digg Unpromoted Stories 2008-07-05 to 2008-07-12

Top Digg Unpromoted Stories 2008-07-05 to 2008-07-12 — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 11:34:42 +0000

[...] A note for this week – I had to read twice as many stories to get this list this week. Not sure what that means, or if it’s due to the recent related publicity. [...]

By: Ex Digger

Ex Digger — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 04:14:29 +0000

I’m sure Mixx will listen to their users opinions and frustrations. Dugg down. Stickiness / hype factor is only for a while.. i’d give it 6 months and that’s it. Same goes for Facebook.

By: Owen Byrne

Owen Byrne — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 17:18:50 +0000

I’ve set up a report to track this every week using the digg api.
http://owenbyrn...npromoted-list/

By: Search Engine Optimization » Blog Archive » SearchCap: The Day In Search, July 9, 2008

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 03:27:25 +0000

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By: shhexycorin

shhexycorin — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 09:55:00 +0000

12,886 diggs now!

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 08:30:55 +0000

Digg is a novel concept and worked for awhile. It’s unfortunately been going downhill in the past year. The average guy has little to no shot of ever getting a front page story. It’s all based around a few users who have a lot of friends and just spend their whole day sending shouts. I’d say 20% of the front page stories are by 5 diggers. That’s just insane.

And it would be one thing if those 5 diggers were pulling up interesting and unique stuff. But they just link to a blog that is linking to a 2-day old news story. It’s why you rarely see anything unique on Digg anymore, and instead just day old news. Digg should honestly either cap the amount of stories you can submit a day (seriously, some guys are submitting hundreds a day), or just lower the value of a vote for an article on someone’s friends list.

By: Is Duncan Riley Web 2.0’s Scott McClellan? : The Drama 2.0 Show

Is Duncan Riley Web 2.0’s Scott McClellan? : The Drama 2.0 Show — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 02:05:34 +0000

[...] a show of irony that you just can’t make up, Arrington earlier today published a post entitled “Gosh, How Many Diggs Does It Take To Get To The Home Page, [...]

By: Democrats sell out, telcos to get immunity and expanded spying

Democrats sell out, telcos to get immunity and expanded spying — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 01:56:01 +0000

[...] from The Seminal submitted to Digg had over 500 digs, yet was kept off the front page. TechCrunch noticed this. Telecomm money is [...]

By: Nat

Nat — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 23:42:54 +0000

I like Mixx when it comes to community support for now, it seem mixx is listening from digg user who are not satisfied with their rating the news.

Nat
http://www.workersinc.com

By: Joost Schuur

Joost Schuur — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 21:04:08 +0000

If you’re dealing with a hot button political issue, you’re likely to get a lot of extreme reactions, split down party lines. Democrats & Republicans are more or less evenly split, so this would explain an equal amount of digg vs. bury votes on a topic like ‘The constitution dies tomorrow’.

A (former) tech centric focused site like Digg probably skews a little more to the left than right, which explains why it’s still in the upcoming section, because the voting isn’t entirely balanced.

By: Innuendo

Innuendo — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 20:52:25 +0000

A content judged by masses will never work. Doesnt matter how good article is there is always a huge number of frustrated people who’s only goal is to make everything stupid and irrelevant and they make websites like Digg messy and distractive.

I personally let experts to choose content for me. For example I only read TC articles if I want to find out something about technology. This is because I build certain trust in people behind TC. I don’t need 1000 of votes to tell me that I should read article from Michael Arrington. I just know it will be something interesting. At least in 95% of cases.

By: Rajiv Singh

Rajiv Singh — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 19:30:39 +0000

‘The crowd can make better decisions on what constitutes “news”’

Mwuahaha, is this serious? Digg is a bunch of dumbass Mactards and Linux fanatics.

By: Ryan Holiday

Ryan Holiday — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 18:54:14 +0000

The problem with Digg (and Stumble Upon) is that they let the barrier of entry get way too high. The whole notion of power users is actually antithetical to what they’re trying to accomplish. When someone like MSaleem submits 19,000 stories to Stumble Upon that means each one of his votes should mean less, not more. Same with Digg. The problem now is that a single vote is essentially meaningless because of vote inflation.

By: Rushabh Choksi

Rushabh Choksi — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 18:23:38 +0000

There seems to be some problem with Digg algorithms. I too have noticed many popular stories having more than 800 diggs not being able to make up to the front page. While those having 250 diggs appear on the home page. I hope that the problem better gets solved very soon.

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 18:22:56 +0000

“There are persistent rumors that Digg now employs editors to review upcoming stories before they are promoted, to increase quality.”
Well that’s not working too well considering half of the submissions that hit the frontpage are total shit.

By: Jose Alvear

Jose Alvear — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 18:12:44 +0000

Digg used to be a good place to go for interesting news and user-submitted crap. But it’s no longer a useful place for anyone that respects news and knows the difference between opinion and news.

I agree with other commenters: Many Digg-ers simply digg a story without reading the article. Many submitted stories are innaccurate, old and poorly wriitten. And headlines like this “Constitution Dies Tomorrow” bullshit means Digg can never be taken seriously.