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Gosh, How Many Diggs Does It Take To Get To The Home Page?

techcrunch.com — Tonight some Digg users noticed something a little strange. One story had 936 votes 16.5 hours after it was originally submitted. That’s way beyond what’s needed to get on the home page.

Who dugg this?

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  • illuminus86, on 07/09/2008, -2/+20I wonder how much manual control they have... the thought of possible censhorship on Digg is disgusting...

    Regardless, you can't reap the benefits of socially-spread news if you or your algorithm keeps popular items from spreading. *Some* part of the process is *definitely* flawed.
  • redscofield, on 07/09/2008, -1/+17the equation is thus:
    diggs to get on the front page = licks to get to the center of a tootsie pop...
  • fatbyjhnsn, on 07/09/2008, -3/+14An Open Letter to Kevin Rose: http://digg.com/people/An_Open_Letter_to_Kevin_Ros ...

    Please digg and spread the word!
  • prgmctan, on 07/09/2008, -0/+7How much wood would a woodchuck chuck...
  • upick, on 07/09/2008, -4/+10Well that's just digg for ya sometimes you get it sometimes you dont...
    I'm sure if digg hired people to check submissions before approving them for the frontpage than that would make it harder to sell it off to the next corporate take over...
  • s0m31john, on 07/09/2008, -0/+4Friends and shouts are the cancer killing digg.
  • DiggityDugged, on 07/10/2008, -0/+4I was a huge daily Digg user two years ago, and made it quickly into the top 100 diggers of all time list. Eventually I stopped for a long time, but it wasn't until just recently that I was bumped off the top 100 list.

    I decided to submit a few stories again here and there, and sadly, the new algorithm basically compares me to MrBabyMan, which is laughable. Without subscribed auto-diggers like he has, there's basically no way for me to ever front page again. All of my stuff takes at least 300 diggs to go front page, a statistic I only know thanks to the hilarious Scientology bashing week. Sux2B me I guess...
  • AmyVernon, on 07/09/2008, -0/+3if a wood chuck could chuck wood
  • nymphetamine, on 07/09/2008, -0/+3oh noez! t3h digg iz censorin me!

    Why do we have to go through this everytime someone spams something?
  • Lucas123, on 07/09/2008, -0/+3The world may never know...
  • inactive, on 07/09/2008, -6/+8It doesn't matter..Nothing posted on Digg makes any difference in the real world..However there are some nuts out there (like ron paul supporters) who honestly think success on Digg (or Youtube) is some kind of warped win..These type of folks are out of touch with reality
  • LauraBlu, on 07/21/2008, -0/+1... also, the user who submitted it may have had a high ratio of articles submitted from the same URL ... Digg doesn't like anything greater than a 1/5 ratio
  • lambosv21, on 07/09/2008, -0/+1oh yay, another repetitive article getting sent to the front page about something already discussed!


  • LauraBlu, on 07/21/2008, -0/+1depends on the category submitted ...
  • benologist, on 07/09/2008, -1/+1I think the amount of stupid crap that gets front paged and the people behind it are pretty solid evidence there's no censorship beyond some of the more obvious kinds of spam..

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