jesusphreak.infogami.com — Last night while viewing the frontpage of Digg, I noticed that the #2 user on Digg had 10 of the last 40 most popular stories. After further study, I realized that this user and several of the other top users on Digg regularly are among the first people to Digg each others' stories. What does this mean for Digg? You may find these stats interesting
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alecksSep 6, 2006
I say we all start doing this.... give us text we can copy paste, and I'll insert it into every story I see... if I get banned, I'll open a new one.... something gotta get done about this
felchdonkeySep 6, 2006
They already are. One digg per story, per person, period. Which Digg are you using?
veterSep 6, 2006
That idea sort of solves the problem, but there are very obvious ways around it that will just come naturally. The fact that a friend's digg shows up on your page follows this same 'flaw'. People have alliances...it's a flaw in democracy and in group-think in general, not just digg.
koickSep 6, 2006
"This should fix the problem, i think."Not really, this wouldn't prevent the existing circles of friends from letting each other know which stories they submitted (via email or IM), and you've got the same issue all over again.
koickSep 6, 2006
They DO care if it will lure a percentage of diggers to their BLOG sites where a certain percentage will click on their ADVERTISING links....
pixelsoupSep 7, 2006
I popped over to Netscape to see what happened with those paid "diggers". It's a painful site to swim through but I noticed a lot of the names you mention here do the same thing over there.- - -The names below are 5 of 15 paid "Navigators". capn_caveman msaleem wayjer digitalgopher dirtyfratboy- - -The names above and below show up on each others buddy lists and they ALL digg (uh, vote) each others stories.hemphill81 tlmac59 aaaz 3monkeys
gsamSep 7, 2006
I'm hoping too, but apparently it's not and I'm wondering why, with 819 diggs and counting it should be...
hmtksteveSep 7, 2006
This is interesting:User infonote has submitted 2778 stories and not a single one has ever made it to the front page. He's been around since Nov 2005.The most popular User Albertpacion has submitted 2584 stories with 793 on the home page. He's been around since Jan 2005.User Aidenag has submitted 966 stories with 256 on the home page. He's been around since March 2006.Is any one of these users "better" then the other?I'm up in the air on whether or not the Top Users page should also include a "days on Digg" column.
thehagSep 8, 2006
There is a solution to this "conspiracy".The Digg algorithm should implement this:A user doesn't see the submitter of a story until AFTER they have dugg or buried it.Guest users never see the submitter.Of course you can email your friends and tell 'em where to digg, but it makes it harder, or less natural, to plot the whole thing...Don't you think that would be fair? to all?
massivekillaApr 10, 2008
Nice one.