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- Bonekhan, on 12/01/2007, -4/+31Algorithm? Try: random number generator.
- Waskonator, on 12/01/2007, -2/+23I'm doomed to never be recognized by the world.
- qpingu, on 12/01/2007, -2/+22I don't see "Mentioning Ron Paul" anywhere on the list, this guy has no idea what he's talking about.
- FloppyLlamaDigg, on 12/01/2007, -5/+24Buried to test hypothesis.
- mrjit, on 12/01/2007, -3/+181. Add friends
2. Shout out spam
3. ????
4. dugg - sockpuppets, on 12/01/2007, -0/+12I thought it was kevin pushing things to the front while on a bender.
- Puppetfunk, on 12/01/2007, -1/+7Which story was this?
- manitoba98xp, on 12/01/2007, -1/+7How did this story make it to the front page?
- allaboutdatiki, on 12/01/2007, -1/+6The full post (not just the wag's regurgiterpretation):
http://searchengineland.com/071128-122432.php - Voldon, on 12/01/2007, -2/+6As long as digg gives me a variety of stories I couldn't give a monkey.
- S1ngular1ty1, on 12/01/2007, -1/+5How could this not reach the front page?
- AARTARTHUR, on 12/01/2007, -6/+10Yea right ! What about the out right censoring of a story that had 3,000 DIGGS in less than 8 hours. Sorry your selling but I ain't buying . Buried !
- JustMatt, on 12/01/2007, -0/+3Frankly, I think some of you guys make too much of a damn big deal out of it.
- AndrewDB, on 01/10/2008, -3/+6I can summarize it down to two words:
It doesn't. - OriginalLucid1, on 12/01/2007, -0/+3Just submit something from Rawstory. Thats a guaranteed ticket to the front page.
- MrBabyMan, on 12/01/2007, -2/+5Are you aware of exactly who Muhammad Saleem, the author, is?
http://www.digg.com/users/msaleem - xTRUMANx, on 12/01/2007, -0/+2They're all extinct, except for the fabled one...
- SIRBERUS, on 12/01/2007, -1/+3Plz to be turning on yerz LOLCAT spellcheckr, kthxbai.
- Scogras, on 12/01/2007, -0/+2Dugg, then Buried, commented on, emailed to all my friends and then posted again! Lets put this site to the test!
- Dokument, on 12/01/2007, -0/+2Which sometimes is thrown into an infinite loop.
- Scogras, on 12/01/2007, -0/+2OH it will believe me!
- liquidjamm, on 12/01/2007, -0/+2Whatta ***** is up with people trying to get to the top page like it's a ***** competition. Whatever happen to just posting. It's like the new idea to increase usage was to make the site users competitive. Oh snappp...
- inactive, on 12/01/2007, -0/+2I think the real key is to just participate, and participate heavily. Make friends, digg what they are doing, have them digg you, digg others, make comments, have fun. Simple:
http://tinyurl.com/2oscg3 - mbradbury, on 12/01/2007, -1/+2Damn it; I meant "allowed"
- lukee, on 12/01/2007, -0/+1Correction: you are doomed if you go back in time, create a bunch of time doubles, have them register for digg, and get them to digg your story.
- drakenlot, on 12/01/2007, -1/+2Replace Kevin with a monkey on a typewriter and it's probably closer...
- 0crabby0, on 12/01/2007, -0/+1So I must drink Unicorn blood when I submit an article - To make it popular?
MrBabyMan must've wiped out millions...lol - mghwom1, on 12/01/2007, -1/+2Yeaaaaah, I don't think the top Diggers want to give out how they get to the top. Otherwise, they wouldn't be there anymore.
- mghwom1, on 12/01/2007, -0/+1:) I am. How do you do it? You should give your response!
- KMye, on 12/01/2007, -0/+1it already did a few days ago...
- rodwambold, on 12/02/2007, -0/+1Digg it, I have to say the article was very concise I like it and it shed some light. I also looked at the full post at:
http://searchengineland.com/071128-122432.php
Good read!
So how do we know that this is really the way digg looks at a digg? - xTRUMANx, on 12/01/2007, -1/+2Wow, your right. His profile has more Ron Paul written on it than white space.
- dontburythis, on 12/02/2007, -0/+1It seems "regurgiterpretation" is the way to make it to the frontpage...
- uofmpike, on 12/04/2007, -0/+1What's it take to get to the home page? It's the algorithm, stupid!
* Digg's algorithm accounts for recent participation rank of user and followers.
* Frequent success makes subsequent success more difficult. Take a few days off sometimes.
* Get a quick succession of diggs from "high-value" users.
* The number of diggs needed to reach the homepage correlates to the number of diggs being cast at any given time, and how your story compares to the average.
* Competition in categories Technology, World and Business is fiercer than in Sports or Entertainment. 50 diggs will get a story promoted if it is tops in its category.
* The faster a story gets votes, the lower the vote count has to be at which it is promoted. But diversity is important. Stories dugg by "voting rings" will sit at the top of the queue for hours.
* Too many buries and your story will be removed from the queue.
* Comments can help push a story over the edge. Not fake ones, though.
* Wrong: An absolute number of votes is required.
* Wrong: You're doomed if your story isn't submitted by a top user.
* Wrong: Number of friends is important. Digg looks for is diversity in the Diggs a story receives.
* Wrong: There is a 24-hour window for success. - xTRUMANx, on 12/01/2007, -0/+1My guess is wander upcoming stories, find something good, and dupe it.
- hammerpants, on 12/01/2007, -1/+1I believe in you.
- inactive, on 12/01/2007, -1/+1Do you get anything besides an ego boost when you make the first page?
- KMye, on 12/01/2007, -2/+2He's a Paulnut, just ignore him...
- bagboyrebel, on 12/01/2007, -1/+1"Wrong: You're doomed if your story isn't submitted by a top user."
obviously this guy isn't accounting for time doubles. - drakenlot, on 12/01/2007, -2/+2Well, now that it's explained, no one ever should ask "How did this story make it to the front page?"
- inactive, on 12/01/2007, -0/+0awesome
- DariusBashar, on 12/18/2007, -0/+0short and sweet. I found this blog post very useful. So did it make it to the front of Digg or not? How funny would that be if it made it to the front of Reddit instead?
- testshoot, on 12/01/2007, -0/+0I just wait for the day the lowermy billz and crassmates banners show up :(
- Hoov, on 12/01/2007, -3/+3Because you touch yourself at night.
- sockpuppets, on 12/01/2007, -4/+4prophet?
- lolo2007, on 02/29/2008, -0/+0
Impressive list - I always assumed front page listing was based on number of diggs minus number of buries. I'd really like to see the actual algorithms they use to implements the behaviors they list.
http://download.paramegsoft.com/
http://www.paramegsoft.com/forum/ - darkell, on 04/19/2008, -0/+0Interesting version
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