tech-recipes.com — One web guy's lessons he has learned from being on the digg front page a few times. He believes that webmasters trying to abuse digg to get ad clicks are just wasting their time. (Quit promoting yourself, you shmucks!) Good read.
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kevinjNov 8, 2005
Wonderful submission. Very informative and analytical.
xeyrNov 8, 2005
less dupes? What Slashdot do you read?
draconikoNov 8, 2005
Never been to slashdot
bivouacNov 8, 2005
It is definitely abused, see the wikipedia entry for 'slashdot trolls'.Regarding the comments above, I couldn't agree more. I hope this is a turning point at this site. It is the democratic ranking that makes digg so innovative. I like digg more than slashdot for this reason alone, but without active and thoughtful participation, the site loses a lot of its potential.
masterzoraNov 8, 2005
@bivouac:Of course there's potential. We proved that when this site was still just a fledgling and everybody here came directly from kevinrose.com and people actually posted technology news (novel concept!). It worked beautifully. In fact, it started going downhill as we added members, but it was when we got to Digg 2.0 that I think we really lost Digg.But, yes, the potential is limitless.
bivouacNov 8, 2005
As they make improvements, Kevin and the Girl (Diggnation, that is) should emphasize how to report lame stories. Also, I'd like to know the logic behind how a story is promoted. Does anyone know the impact of reporting a story as lame? Does it mean that the story will be reviewed for possible removal, and if not removed does being reported as lame affect a stories ranking at all?Kevin? The Girl? (you know I'm kidding you Alex)
ahdanielsanNov 8, 2005
So ironic
chopcowNov 8, 2005
Here's what I feel is going on. This site has gained so much popularity, that most of the members are now non-techie.So you have tons of non-techie members digging sites that are fun and interesting, regardless of whether they are tech related or not.Then you have the techie members looking confused and saying "Why is this on the front page?" or "Why is this still getting Diggs?"This is just based on my observation though.
strangemanNov 9, 2005
@the people who ask "why don't they dig me?"Because you content is not hot and fancy. People might have seen it somewhere else, already or just don't like it.On the other hand.. why would you want to get dugg? If you produce good content people read/consume it anway. No matter if it appears on digg.com, or not. The only good thing I got out of digg, was that I was forced to optimize my site and serve most of my stuff as static instead of dynamic pages. Well.. plus I can now enjoy digg.com myself because I initially found out about it by going through my referrer statistics ;)
pasteler0Dec 30, 2005
off???
taherkJul 17, 2007
Good post. Never thought about digg effect before.. Some more webmaster articles are at <a class="user" href="http://www.itdiscover.com/links/web_development/top_zines_and_blogs">http://www.itdiscover.com/links/web_development/top_zines_and_blogs</a>
kevmasterAug 2, 2007
How I managed to easily survive 2 frontpage diggs at the same time. An in depth article.<a class="user" href="http://digg.com/linux_unix/How_to_easily_survive_the_Digg_effect">http://digg.com/linux_unix/How_to_easily_survive_the_Digg_effect</a>
kevmasterSep 3, 2007
A complete guide how to protect yourself against the Digg effect<a class="user" href="http://digg.com/linux_unix/How_to_easily_survive_the_Digg_effect">http://digg.com/linux_unix/How_to_easily_survive_the_Digg_effect</a>