Comments on: Are your Digg friends digging you up or down?

By: andy

andy — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 05:42:54 +0000

I hope they do serious thinking with the algorithm. Wat’s the point of adding friends and digging their stories only to get buried?

By: HMTKSteve

HMTKSteve — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 16:03:40 +0000

The other day someone submitted a link to an online Mii editor… It got buried.

Someone else submitted a link to arstechnica talking about the (same) online Mii editor… it made the home page…

By: HMTKSteve

HMTKSteve — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 16:01:43 +0000

I think they are tired of people making money off of Digg while they can’t.

There is no real way to monetize Digg and who wants to pay for CPM advs on digg?

Think about it, all those ads are competeing for clicks against digg itself!

By: Charbarred

Charbarred — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 15:32:44 +0000

Lately all start ups that I submit get auto-buried. I think they are making sure that no one tries to use digg as a promotion tool. (unless tech crunch writes about it)

By: HMTKSteve

HMTKSteve — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 13:05:07 +0000

I’m going to guess that the company you submitted content from was not Yahoo/Google/CNN/etc… or any other “major” media company?

Maybe Digg has just decided to build in a bias against small players in the media market?

By: Charbarred

Charbarred — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 12:55:13 +0000

Before you de-friend all you friends, just a note…
In the past I’ve submitted a certain company to Digg (made the front page). It’s a great site and from there on every time I saw news about it I submitted it to Digg as well. All of those submissions get auto-buried as well, so the gaming algo might be about certain keywords as well. Digg decides that you “work” for a certain company and doesn’t let you submit their stories anymore. In practice it sucks, because I really don’t work for that company and just wanted to be helpful because I like them.

Maybe I’ll try and do only Digg related stories this week and see if they get auto-buried after a while…

By: HMTKSteve

HMTKSteve — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 18:23:14 +0000

I’m doing that right now but I have sooooo many it is taking too long.

It may not have an effect as they are probably basing it on something else besides friends.

By: Webomatica

Webomatica — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 18:17:16 +0000

What if you “unfriended” all your digg friends…!

By: HMTKSteve

HMTKSteve — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 17:00:03 +0000

My new policy is to be “friendly” with those who submit stuff I don’t like so I can bury it by digging it!

I’ve also stopped digging stuff from baron.vc and theplugg.com because my diggs work like buries for those sites!

By: baron

baron — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 16:37:01 +0000

Damn! That really sucks. They say “silence is gold” but this is a bit too much.

What exactly are we supposed to do? Set up an informal friend network on a closed IRC or chatroom? It does kinda explain why some of my quirkier submissions started making the homepage.