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- TheJayman, on 10/12/2007, -7/+119So is CNET writing an article on digg so that it would make the front page so their rankings will go up and then they can make more money?
- h2d2, on 10/12/2007, -6/+103Well I know digg is being actively rigged. And at risk of being dugg down I would say that a prime example of this is the Apple section and how more stories from it end up being on the front page.
But all is not lost, digg did take action against the constant spam from roughlydrafted "magazine", which was pretty successful in getting each and everyone of it's pro-Apple / anti-MS stories to the frontpage via fake users and carefully executed digg surges: http://ba01162.googlepages.com/RoughlyDraftedBUSTED.html - frant1c, on 10/12/2007, -12/+101The article isn't really describing how to "rig Digg". It's just a feature about individuals and companies that do it, and its consequences. So, if anyone expects a 'how-to', they'll be disappointed.
- paulmike3, on 10/12/2007, -10/+61FTA: "The stories often feature topics and keywords in headlines that are likely to appeal to the Digg crowd, such as "geeks" and "Apple.""
yeah, that pretty much sums up digg. 0.o
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -26/+74Kevin Rose FAILS at Algorithms.
- Roger, on 10/12/2007, -6/+52I don't think I wanna hear the rest of that...
- flag564, on 10/12/2007, -24/+58See Also: Apple Section
Enough astroturf to coat the Great Plains. - rebrad, on 10/12/2007, -18/+41Now I know how all the dupes, Neo Socialist stories and Apple spam keep getting stories posted here. Business is business I guess, but isn't one "Hate America" or "iPhone" story per day enough? Yes, Digg has been hijacked and it shows.
- mistercharlie, on 10/12/2007, -2/+24"Companies charge as much as $15,000 to get content up on Digg"
Damn! - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -17/+38Rig a Digg Digg, three men and a pig.
- cakestick, on 10/12/2007, -7/+28@lhnz:
No, but you're one of the few ***** that can't help but point it out. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -6/+26Bury: Inaccurate seems to be relevant enough
- xpose, on 10/12/2007, -2/+18Its always fun to a digg a story about how digg is flawed. I'll say this gets close to 1000 diggs by days end ;)
- MrDarkSim, on 10/12/2007, -3/+20Are you sure you don't care?You only said it 15 times.
- spyrochaete, on 10/12/2007, -3/+18h2d2 big respect for your thorough sleuthing! The best way to get the Digg execs to fix their sites is to expose flaws publicly.
Let this be a lesson to everyone here - more diggs does not mean more relevant! - theonlyvlad, on 10/12/2007, -10/+24Can there please be a "Bury: Sensationalist" option?
- MstrClark, on 10/12/2007, -10/+23A lot of stories on Digg as fake. Get used it it.
- h2d2, on 10/12/2007, -2/+15@flag564: I didn't write that article, so the credit goes to some one else. But who ever it is, they did succeed in their efforts and now that "magazine" is banned and all of it's previous submissions have been deleted. Great job digg team!
- lhnz, on 10/12/2007, -3/+16Btw the reason you will be dugg down is mainly because of your typical and predictable comment:
"I bet you anything I'll be dugg down for this post...
JUst watch..." - Snakedal337, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14It says they pay up to $15,000...
Wheres my check?? I'll gladly go along with any digg hijacking for that kind of money! - djliquidice, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12This site is soo funny now.
- mastershake1, on 10/12/2007, -6/+17"Also, it seems that it's more difficult to get stories buried than before. By before I mean Digg v.2.0. I think that's a factor in crap stories staying on the frontpage."
Ah yes, Digg 1.0, where 3/4's of the comments on every post were "++DIGG" or "NO DIGG" or "THE ARTICLE IS A BLOG" or "I HAVE NO INTEREST IN COMMENTING ON THE ACTUAL CONTENT OF THE ARTICLE."
The new comment system has at least put a small cap on the amount of attention whoring by Diggers and kept people on topic. Then again, people don't come to Digg to actually engage in intelligent conversation about what's on the front page, just to bitch and moan about it and make shallow remarks. - tizz66, on 10/12/2007, -3/+13It's a serious problem of course, but is it wildly different from respectable news organisations 'reporting' a company press release word for word without any fact checking or scrutiny? It's happening more and more. That to me is just as spammy.
To say it affects how seriously social news sites will be taken is wrong, because it seems to affect mainstream media too with regurgitated 'press releases'. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10I'd be for the addition of "Bury -> Blog". Also, it seems that it's more difficult to get stories buried than before. By before I mean Digg v.2.0. I think that's a factor in crap stories staying on the frontpage.
- patience, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10How to drive traffic to CNET!
- drewolanoff, on 06/10/2008, -7/+15This article exposed nothing.
- celopes, on 10/12/2007, -3/+12The funniest thing about the article is the last paragraph.
Who associates the word "credibility" to a site that enables the "mob rule" to news/opinions articles???
I don't think of Digg as any more credible than Google News or Bloglines. Digg is just a mechanism that allows people to find content that they may be interested in, and provides a venue do discuss it.
Credibility comes from the underlying source of a particular article.
Please, get over it. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -8/+15I wonder how many MILLIONS Apple pays to Digg for all this astroturfing.
- ronmexico, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7A case in point would be the musikCube story. Tell me that wasn't spam.
- JuliusErving, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7The one thing i hate about digg nowadays (though i guess you have to expect it) are the use of inaccurate titles just to get to the front page. This was not a how to on rigging digg in any sense of the word. I also could have done without the asterisks in the title and the lack of a description. Thanks, worldwideweb.
- M4tt3r, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9Nothing is perfect, just learn to spot the *****, and digg a 6ft hole for it. (bury it, in other words)
- Buelldozer, on 10/12/2007, -9/+15Go ahead and Digg my previous comment down but what's happening is as plain as the nose on your face.
Stories with 1300 Diggs and less then 200 comments? C'mon.
Look at the front page RIGHT NOW and see how many stories are at 550+ Diggs with less than 100 comments.
It's bullcrap. Those stories are making it to the front page based on Diggs coming from external sources. Without USER participation I may as well go read news.google.com as this place. - clearzen, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Is anyone really surprised. I love digging through stories but c'mon how many anti PS3 pro wii we love linux stories can make it to the front page in a day without this happening. I think it's fairly transparent what that digg is rigged at some level.
- krinthekuz, on 09/16/2008, -0/+6i have a bunch of suggestions:
http://www.djlosch.com/post_retrieve.php?pid=73
it's not just gaming, it's also the mob mentality. - jbus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Also, to deal with these "splogs" that steal content but still get promoted because digg users like the content, digg could add an option for digg users to submit a link to the original content and once a certain threshold has been reached in these submissions the link will be automatically changed in the article and direct digg users to the original content rather than to the splog.
- anteyekon4myst, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8So is most of that tech news that instills anger between Mac and PC fans fake? All those Ubuntu stories just product placement?
- digitalrift, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7before digg went web 2.0 and got hyped by every site imagineable digg had good content. these days, it's hard to find decent content amongst the *****, political opinion, PS3 sucks, and worse of all "OMG Steve Jobs farted!" stories here on digg.
Since then, digg's primary use is Pro Apple/ Anti-MS propaganda and political grandstanding. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4This might explain why the political opinion and political news all have the exact philosopy and POV on Digg.
"Other scammers are trying other ways to buy votes. A site dubbed "User/Submitter," purports to pay people 50 cents for digging three stories and charges $20 for each story submitted to the site, plus $1 for every vote it gets. The Spike the Vote Web site boasts that it is a "bulletproof way to cheat Digg" and offers a point system for Digg users to submit and dig stories. And Friendly Vote bills itself as an "online resource for Web masters" to improve their marketing on sites like Digg and Delicious."
This explains alot,, - usbserial, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6How to rig Digg:
1) Make an article about how to rig Digg
2) ???
3) Profit! - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Probably most of it.
And you can add nearly every frontpage article in he "Gaming News" section to the spam-list too. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6The "littlegreenfootballs" crowd partly have themselves to blame, though.
They write insane ranting and usually wildly inaccurate introductions with inflammatory language pissing even me, who's a libertarian, off before I've even read the ranting blog they link to, much less clicked on the external link to the actual article (if they at all bother including it).
Then they comment eachothers threads, and bury all dissenting opinion.
Which would be gaming digg and a smart move, if it wasn't for the tiny flaw in the plan that they're too few to game their tripe to the front page. - Nogger, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6I didn't know I had to maintain a "digg story" to "comment on story" quota.
- ThirdPrize, on 10/12/2007, -4/+8Remember, SPAM wants to be free!
- noGoodNamesLeft, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7Snapshot of front page as I came upon it on 27 November;
http://img423.imageshack.us/img423/3538/tongsubuntuvq7.jpg (c&p the url if clicking doesn't work).
Here's the response:- http://digg.com/linux_unix/Eight_reasons_why_Ubuntu_is_the_Linux_poster_child (see sinner0423's comment and my response).
Oh, and I agree about CliffOsakaJapan; how many stories does this guy post? - weird0science, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I wonder if CNET used a cheater site to get this up here.
- MightyNe, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4This story has been rigged, I know it.
- BoneyB, on 10/12/2007, -6/+9Apparently, I'm now a "dubious Internet marketer" :-)
That article is pretty ridiculous in terms of the factual inaccuracies -- as was Niall Kennedy's that started it all.
http://www.niallkennedy.com/blog/archives/2006/11/spam-farms-social-web.html
FWIW, I still think the original story -- the Geek's Guide to Getting in Shape -- was a good one. What difference does it make which domain it's posted on?
The most hilarious detail of all, is that all these stories coverning the site in question -- the dental resources whatever -- are LINKING TO IT! That's going to help it rank in search engines a heck of a lot more than a link from digg.com does. - Catchpen, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Has anybody here actually bought something, switched OS's, subscribed to a service or changed who they vote for just because of a top story on Digg? I didn't think so. We're all labeled as geeks here and usually a geeks knowledge base of the things mentioned above goes a little further than a 2 paragraph story posted on a ________ fan boys blog.
- UrlorJkron, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3THEY may not have told of how to exploit digg, as the title would have you believe, but they did link to a few sites that DO.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3No surprise here. This is why all this ***** goes to the top recently.
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