What is Digg?68 Comments
- MrBabyMan, on 05/13/2008, -10/+38Citation needed. I'd like to see your sources for this, 'cause speaking for myself, neither I nor anyone I know offhand are getting paid for submitting stories to Digg, either directly or indirectly. If you can't back up your claims with sources or proof, they're just that-- claims.
- Shiftgood, on 05/13/2008, -1/+19Did MrBaby Man just talk? i always pictured him as the giant spinning energy head in tron burried in the center of the earth. I didnt even know he knew english let alone had fingers.
- becurious, on 05/13/2008, -0/+16this is for all the "diggers" and for the digg's "bury brigade"!
- dtele, on 05/13/2008, -0/+17I loved the line: "How many of you guys ever met people online that claim to be “social media consultants” for a living". Well, I'd say that I get at least one digg friend request each day from someone who's profile reads 'Social Media Expert' or similar... And this self-proclaimed 'Social Media Expert' without any friends, will immediately begin by spamming me crap that no one would read. FAIL.
- GRTWHT, on 05/13/2008, -0/+13You know all those times you look at the front page and and think, "How the hell did this get to the front page!?" Now you know.
- dtele, on 05/13/2008, -0/+14So thats why I get shouts from some users to shout other articles around that they didn't even submit (?).
I'd be really surprised if this article doesn't get buried... so Im going to make it my favourite today :) - TedsGame, on 05/13/2008, -1/+12Dude, get a life, we're talking business here, insults are uncalled for ...
- HUSTLER101, on 05/13/2008, -11/+26There are 2 facts that most diggers dont know
2. more than half of the top 100 digg users are paid .
1. Digg itself is paid for making some stories reach frontpage . Yes , thats right . Now they might say no but even if they are paid indirectly it doesnt makes a difference. - RegularJohn, on 05/13/2008, -1/+11I can get anyone on digg's fp for a six pack and a pack of smokes. like email me.
- Hiji, on 05/13/2008, -0/+9Where there is traffic, there is money. Where there is money, there is motivation to exploit and manipulate. Why is anyone surprised that Digg follows this same general pattern? You'd have to be a dumbass to think that "power users" spend hours and hours on Digg, just cuz its so damn fun. The only people with motivation to spend a lot of time on Digg are marketers.
- Lucas123, on 05/13/2008, -2/+12This is exactly the problem with Digg. No one visits the upcoming stories pages anymore where there are oodles of great stories to vote on. Most posts are made popular by digging up shouts, or just indexing your "friends" submissions so you can digg them all at once. While some people may see this as "democratic," I don't. It's simply cliquey. Unfortunately, lately, I've been forced to build a friends list because there is no other way to get a story made popular these days. By the way, here's that Top 100 list. http://digg.com/tech_news/Top_100_Diggers
- jiqiren, on 05/13/2008, -0/+8MrBabyMan, stand by for authentication...
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Your orders:
BRAVO-UNIFORM-ROMEO-YANKEE
Target:
Huffington Post BREAK
Hilary BREAK
Obama BREAK
[/ifonly] - warrior007, on 05/13/2008, -1/+9500 dollars per front page ???????
hahaha 500 dollars for getting server crash - TedsGame, on 05/13/2008, -1/+9Glad you joined this conversation. There are private conversations about top diggers getting paid and I don't think it's a secret for anyone anymore. However, MrBabyMan, no one ever mentioned your name as being amongst this select crowd. The guy DID say more than half.
- Khael, on 05/13/2008, -0/+9Great post. Well, with each day, some social bookmarking and networking service spread link-hate instead of link love.
Try adding a story to Reddit and see how many down votes you receive in a matter or seconds if you have no network to sustain you. You can submit even the most important thing, they react the same.
I'm really looking forward to the evolution of this phenomenon. - bossm4n, on 05/13/2008, -0/+9Have you ever watched the list of new submissions? I would guess that well over 90% are total garbage, dupes or spam, it looks like my inbox on a daily basis--ads for porn, sexual enhancement, celebrity spam, photos that have been passed around on the net for years. I don't know about you, but I choose friends whose submissions and contributions I find worthwhile, interesting and consistent. And just because they are a friend does not mean an instant digg for every article. If they submit crap or a dupe, no digg. Is it a perfect system? No, but it's pretty damn good and getting better.
- TedsGame, on 05/13/2008, -0/+8Well, I wouldn't say that they will do that on regular bases. Social media experts are .... experts so trust me, they don't really spam, they're way more refined than that :)
- TedsGame, on 05/13/2008, -0/+8Yup. Burried. LoL
- inactive, on 05/13/2008, -0/+6refreshing to read -- Consultants beware...haha
- louiebaur, on 05/13/2008, -0/+6That was a great articles thanks for putting it out there
- Shiftgood, on 05/13/2008, -0/+6Are you kidding? everyone knows Shiftgood.
- inactive, on 05/13/2008, -1/+7Welcome back Cyberspin....how was that month in jail?? LOLOL j/k man..welcome back. Dugg and submitted on the DDD!
- TedsGame, on 05/13/2008, -1/+8I think digging shouts shows good manners and respect for your friends. I'd say the percentage of crappy paid submissions versus real good content is clearly in favor of good old digg material.
- MaxMWood, on 05/13/2008, -1/+6I wrote an article on Digg being corrupt a while back:
http://maxwood.co.uk/blog/?p=28 - cybrspin, on 05/13/2008, -0/+5DarkSamus (BoonTobias)
A 2 year-old dude
lol no doubt. - Varadinumdotcom, on 05/13/2008, -2/+8Just 500? hahaha
It`s a lot of beers dude :) - Spudster, on 05/13/2008, -0/+4I think the promotion of I Am Legend was an example of where advertisers have a strong urge to game Digg (and they managed to get content about that movie to the front page). When what you're selling is an idea or a product, gaming Digg may be well worth it. Movie promoters stand big to gain and surely so do Ron Paulers or any other ideological group out there.
- inactive, on 05/13/2008, -0/+4There are some who visit the upcoming stories pages to be sure, but if you watch them with any frequency, you'll see that stories rarely get more than a few Diggs -- even really compelling articles, photos and videos. I've been a member of Digg for about a year and a half and it just seems to be getting worse. I'm often left scratching my head at why some stories get made popular and others are left to die on the vine. I've seen quite a few complaints from folks who've posted great stories only to watch them die, while someone posting the same submission after there's gets made popular.
- cybrspin, on 05/14/2008, -1/+5maybe you should get some ads you so you can help her instead of begging. We all got problems and sick family man.
- inactive, on 05/14/2008, -5/+10Hey could someone get me in on this paid digg thing, maybe they can cover my 76 year old mother's physical therapy after open heart surgery or my 3 day old son in the NICU. I know I could use the money.
I mean f*ck I don't even have an ad on my godamn blog.
Zaibatsu - cybrspin, on 05/13/2008, -0/+3Actually come to mention it, About 12 of my friends don't even accept shouts. But they get my diggs every time. And I expect the same from them I give them. The post receives a digg as long as its quality and not a dupe. If the topic interests me personally is irrelevant, if i want to see topics of just my interest they invented this sill little thing called google. Maybe you should head there. Digg isn't gonna get ya anywhere
- cybrspin, on 05/13/2008, -0/+3164 diggs and buried 53 comments and buried. Hmm and i wonder who was responsible for that.
- heypetray, on 05/13/2008, -0/+4The comments at the bottom are way better than the article itself. Anybody who missed them should go back.
- cybrspin, on 05/13/2008, -1/+6Without a doubt never gonna get in my friends list, hell i even delete my friends if they have him in their list. lol. Positions are too prized to be given to diggers like that. A digg friend no one needs. Anyone with half a clue will remove him from their lists now. His problem is he's an ***** an only has 11 friends because of it, and none of his submissions get any attention ;) Loyalty to your friends is where its at with Digg.
- ladyarcher85, on 05/13/2008, -0/+4Or a few gallons of gas.
- cybrspin, on 05/13/2008, -0/+3Then again it being buried is just more confirming what you now know, who is up to what and how bad that specific digger doesn't want you to know how much he makes. Maybe his cronies wont be so quick to digg everything he spams if they know their loading his pockets. Bad for business, bury it.
- TedsGame, on 05/14/2008, -0/+4really? well, what do you know hey?
- cybrspin, on 05/13/2008, -0/+3hahah Cheers to you to, haven't been gone to far, just been working a lot on my new blog on word press, got sick of fighting with blogger to do smallest thing. Thanks for the DDD :)
- inactive, on 05/13/2008, -1/+4I have a story. I want it on the front page of digg. How much does it cost ?
- dtele, on 05/14/2008, -0/+2No,the point I was making was that anybody can call themselves a Social Media Expert... the not-to-hard trick is not to prove that you're an asswipe hours or days after making a new friend by spamming crap (as they all too often do).
- TedsGame, on 05/14/2008, -0/+2Maybe like a couple.
- dtele, on 05/14/2008, -0/+2Yes ive been noticing that reddit has been getting out of hand a bit lately. i submitted a great article the other day and it was continually downmodded as soon as someone upmodded it.
I think it had about a hundred votes... it was a case of upmod/downmod/upmod/downmod. - cybrspin, on 05/13/2008, -0/+2yes its an excellent discussion without the momos
- cybrspin, on 05/13/2008, -0/+2No but with a quick glance of my profile you can see. I represent the Loyal quality digger I been mentioning. Like Ted, Dtele, Sirpopper, vick3ii, DiggBoss, Lewp etc ... etc..... And where possible I support guys/gals like these in their other ventures too. I'm a big fan of TedsGame Blog and other people like him I've met on Digg and a regular visitor/commenter/reader in many areas of their social networking circle. So no i don't represent the entire Digg universe, but rest assured every single one of my friends on my list will tell you I'm one ***** of a super nova in their little universes.
- cybrspin, on 05/13/2008, -0/+2I don't think the subject of the article is no one knew they were doing it. It's just a discussion about the fact they arem the depth of it, why, and whats the benefits and disadvantages of it to DIGG and Social Networking in general.
- TedsGame, on 05/13/2008, -0/+2He is.
- cybrspin, on 05/13/2008, -2/+5The Article doesn't consist of comments, comments are just that comments, peoples opinions and thoughts. No one refered to you by name until you commented so i don't see where your issue is? Unless i'm missing the point here, which wouldn't be a first either.
- Spudster, on 05/13/2008, -1/+3I think that Digg should start monitoring WHERE certain Diggs are coming from. If it can be shown that the Digg's for a users articles are coming from the same users or IP's, then that article should require more Digg's to reach the frontpage. This would have completely set back a lot of the ridiculous political spam we have been seeing. I know you can't completely remove it, but it's time for the slating and cliques to end.
Another thing that may help is to feature a small part of the front page to the upcoming section, so that articles in the upcoming can be legitimately Dugg up. -
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