What is Digg?314 Comments
- AE1360, on 10/19/2009, -82/+840I don't really see what the problem is.
The guy submits articles, and works for SI. He asks another user who he had seen post articles before to help him out by posting some articles for him. In return, he offers him compensation. Honestly, if the article is worth people 'digging' it will show up anyway. Seriously why is it that people care about this? Am I totally missing something? - TobiasParker, on 10/19/2009, -8/+500I'd do it for money.
- waynejont, on 10/19/2009, -1/+421They also neglected to blur out his email and phone number...yikes.
- AmnesiacJack, on 10/19/2009, -14/+422Yes the fear is that paid for content could take over Digg and the only stories that make it to the front page would be the stories that companies paid "power users" to make it to the front page.
- notthatnoise, on 10/19/2009, -5/+380to those of you who are outraged:
did you honestly not think this was happening already? - jgopp, on 10/19/2009, -1/+350Paid content is already rampant on Digg.
- IamNOTmrT, on 10/19/2009, -1/+304Strange, I buried this guy recently for a dumb comment on a Sports Illustrated article that he clearly never read:
http://digg.com/basketball/Greek_team_Olympiakosne ... - dagnabbit, on 10/19/2009, -5/+307I for one am OUTRAGED.
He should have contacted ME. - RealmDown, on 10/19/2009, -2/+277I'd do it for one of their swimsuit models.
- BillyB, on 10/19/2009, -9/+233But... how much for? I might be interested!
- murph8807, on 10/19/2009, -1/+217I'd do it with one of their swimsuit models
- inactive, on 10/19/2009, -3/+202stay classy internet
- evan193, on 10/19/2009, -1/+146apparently he joined the digg witness protection program
"Ben Kaplan chose a new icon, changed his location, updated his birthday and edited his bio in his profile 1 hour ago" - Chooxo, on 10/19/2009, -1/+133I can't believe there is a paid job for submitting stories to Digg and that you don't even need to write well to do it.
- CaliforniaEagle, on 10/19/2009, -10/+139This won't be pretty for SI when this hits the FP
- 198o, on 10/19/2009, -3/+128Yeah, I just called the number. Got Ben Kaplan's voice mail.
- Awwzm, on 10/19/2009, -4/+102I think his AIM is gonna get hammered with requests.
- RIB08, on 10/19/2009, -2/+92DISSAPPOINTED. Because I thought SI was soliciting for sex.
- thscientist1, on 10/19/2009, -4/+93id model one of their swimsuits
- smacksaw, on 10/19/2009, -5/+87Well, it's not really a secret amongst the power users, but they know that comments help add to an article.
You will see a lot of articles with 10+ comments in about a 2-hour span after the submission. All of the comments are basically one-line nonsense like "you go girl" and "I like pie" and these people just digg each other up,
Eventually you have an article with about 40 diggs, 10 comments and most of the comments have about as many diggs as comments.
All they need to be are one-line comments. These people do hundreds of articles so they can't actually write real comments. They just try to keep it on-topic and state the obvious.
Eventually, these accounts get promoted up from random diggs to actual submissions. There are tons of accounts and they get detected if they work in concert. So if you have 5 accounts, they all digg different articles. Multiply that by a bunch of power users and you have people circumventing the algorithm.
A great example of someone coming up in the promotion ranks is this account:
http://digg.com/users/ArrowheadAddict
You can always tell these accounts because they have 10x the profile views of their comments, meaning there is no reason for anyone to look at their account except for the whole "hey, I just emailed you, check my Digg profile and see what I am digging and digg it up"...
Then, you can look at their socialblade stats:
http://www.socialblade.com/digg/diggfpdata.php?use ...
Once you sort through how socialblade tracks this stuff, you begin to understand. You can see that if you compare your account to bkaplan, all he does is spam.
Basically he got caught comment spamming. Proof he didn't actually read, he just drive-by commented the article. - TEdwardK, on 10/19/2009, -0/+81What an ass, here is his response to his own post
"I saw Olympics, went ADD, and immediately figured World Cup."
He saw one word and apparently just made up some story in his head to comment on. Exactly the type of person this community doesn't want. - PBerger, on 10/19/2009, -21/+97I don't see anything wrong with it, he isn't saying "I will tell you what to post." he's just saying "Hey, post these if you want. I'll send you stuff for free if you do."
Digg users are just looking for something to rage against. - Ezrayan, on 10/19/2009, -0/+73riiiight..."neglected"
- startsomething7, on 10/19/2009, -4/+74This was on reddit first.
/s - BaoUnit, on 10/19/2009, -7/+69I'd swimsuit one of their models
- SooperSonic, on 10/19/2009, -1/+61Does the free SI memorabilia offered include the Swimsuit Issue?
- kthoma22, on 10/19/2009, -1/+61You mean sorta like now when there are articles everyday from CollegeHumor or Cracked.
- sewalsh, on 10/19/2009, -1/+56Isn't 80% of digg content submitted through paid-for partnerships?
- borez, on 10/19/2009, -3/+58Books and apparel seemingly... ***** that, only cold hard cash talks nowadays.
- Coven, on 10/19/2009, -0/+45if they send me a swimsuit model or two they've got a deal
- nepidae, on 10/19/2009, -1/+45I was pretty suprised this article wasnt posted by MrBabyman
- Powerfan5000, on 10/19/2009, -6/+50I'd do it for a subscription to SI for Kids
- fakeline, on 10/19/2009, -1/+45I'd *****'em.
- ProfessorRiffs, on 10/19/2009, -6/+50I've got this gangrenous leg... but it's already started going bad, so why stop it? I'll just let it kill the rest of me. No big deal, it's just how stuff goes.
/metaphor - dman24752, on 10/19/2009, -0/+43The odd thing about the LeBron bobble-head is that it is totally to scale.
- rotundo, on 10/19/2009, -3/+45I don't understand what the big deal is. We get to vote on stories... if they're submitted by a shill or a true grass roots guy, it's the same story. Either you like it or you don't and you vote accordingly.
The only reason this matters is if certain users have a unfair advantage in getting stuff to the front page... and if that's the case, it's got nothing to do with SI, the story, or the digger... it's a flaw in the digg system itself. - nouman1989, on 10/19/2009, -24/+65WTF
- thespiff, on 10/19/2009, -0/+40I don't know about you, but I totally have a few Swimsuit Issues in reserve for power outages and such.
- MrsButtersworth, on 10/19/2009, -0/+39"...seam..."
LOL bitches! - c3rb85, on 10/19/2009, -0/+38Guy needs to proof read his emails
- LaurelDungeon, on 10/19/2009, -3/+40Oh my God! Companies pay people to plug their products and services on social networking sites!
Also, the earth revolves around the sun. News at 11. - caramba421, on 10/19/2009, -1/+38I like pie.
- robdiggity, on 10/19/2009, -0/+36That's what Ben gets for soliciting a guy who is already working for the Sporting News.
- gardnmi, on 10/19/2009, -3/+37Quick to the doughnut shop immediately....we have to contact Michael Moore about this evil capitalism going on.
- rwbrinso, on 10/19/2009, -6/+37Shameless? Hell yeah. Will I stop subbing quality SI articles because of it? Of course not.
(Although I would bet his email is hurting today, especially when this hits the home page.) - bratterscain, on 10/19/2009, -0/+30Not pretty at all, lol. http://img9.imageshack.us/img9/4416/captureyo.png
- edmcguirk, on 10/19/2009, -1/+31"Every once and awhile"?
That's borderline illiterate. - phrakshun, on 10/20/2009, -0/+29I hope he likes beastiality
- jshhmr, on 10/19/2009, -1/+29You go girl!!
- tonynf89, on 10/19/2009, -0/+28I don't know, I'd be pretty happy with a LeBron bobble-head.
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