Comments on: Digga please

By: Chris Stark

Chris Stark — Mon, 21 May 2007 04:14:49 +0000

Yeah, Digg is a total guessing game. I’ve been testing out a few things at Digg lately, and so far my conclusion on what it takes to really hit the front page consistently is total luck.

Look at big name posters with tons of front page articles, most of them submit at least 5 to 1 or even 10 to 1 articles for each one that gets frontpaged.

It’s a total numbers game, and depending on when and where you submit your article to in the site determines whether or not you will be successful.

By: Kyle

Kyle — Sat, 19 May 2007 13:49:18 +0000

Yeah, Digg has been bitter for me lately. I’ve noticed that the shittiest comments get dug up now and it’s ridiculous. It becomes this horrible fest about who can be the funniest or wittiest or the most un-objective. Fuckers.

By: Tom

Tom — Fri, 18 May 2007 18:17:01 +0000

@Travis: Interesting you brought that up, because Neil (Patel I’m assuming) was recently outed, or at least accused, on digg of using the digg ID “webtickle” to boost site visits to Mashable and Pronet for his own gain. He was even called a blackhat SEO blogger/spammer.

Now, I’m not sure if that’s the case, but my the perspective in the case of YGG diggs is that the submitter could be perceived as too directly involved with YGG and therefore a spammer. I have mixed feelings about this considering that friends have dugg me and vice versa, but never was it solely to get attention to gain clicks…

I dugg the iPhone story b/c I thought it was important in light of the Apple stock hiccup. But you’re right. The lists and picture galleris from “English Russia” and their ilk, it’s getting old. I yearn for meaningful content and sort of miss the days when digg was solely about tech.

By: Robert Dewey

Robert Dewey — Fri, 18 May 2007 15:12:04 +0000

That’s the problem with Digg… People bury stories simply because they don’t like the person that posted them. You may have two different people with the same headline and article, yet one user will get buried simply because of who he is.

I don’t give a shit who posted the story – show me what’s interesting. If a story has 1,000 “buries” or “no Diggs”, then I wanna see it! If people are that dedicated to burying a particular story, then I wanna see WHY it was buried (kind of like a car accident – they suck, but everyone wants to look).

Digg isn’t democratic, it’s flawed.

By: me

me — Fri, 18 May 2007 03:12:48 +0000

i concur, but there is nothing that will change that. Welcome to the internet. No matter what the website, dumbs fill it up.

By: Jason G

Jason G — Fri, 18 May 2007 01:31:52 +0000

“Who gives a rat’s ass? I feel so many things when I see boring news like this ” Hey I resent that comment. My current employment entails testing and approving commercial and government equipment.

But as stated above that should not be in the top 10 Diggs, I believe a great number of our topics should be in the top 10; however due to the common society (loving) their 9-5 jobs, they help excel immaterial topics that cannot provide with entrepreneurial freedom.

Hence why the rich get richer and the poor and middle class stay in their currenty state. (Sounds like some cheesy line from Robert kiyosaki) *Where is my freakin Cheesy button*

By: Danny

Danny — Thu, 17 May 2007 23:29:56 +0000

There must be a way so that all of us real entrepreneurs can Digg each others articles to get on the top page. Maybe we have to pretend it is something geeky so we get noticed by the geek squad at Digg.

By: Travis

Travis — Thu, 17 May 2007 20:48:58 +0000

Neil from Pronet touched on this issue a couple days ago and mentioned Darius/YGG as well:

http://www.webpronews.com/blogtalk/2007/05/14/digg-burying-stories-internally

I don’t know how many top 10 lists of css sites and cakes shaped like computers I can take. I tend to only visit Digg for the videos section nowadays.