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- geodescent, on 10/12/2007, -1/+44I'll add to this.
11) Submit your own blog
Nothing incites a fury of slathering Diggers and their cheesy-poof wrath faster than submitting content you created yourself. How dare you do such a thing! The horror! This can also be rephrased as "if it doesn't come from Gizmodo, stop while you're ahead."
12) Have ads/donate buttons on the page
How dare you attempt to prevent those teeming throngs from financially ruining you by digging your site into the thousands. It's your fault for choosing a host that doesn't auto-block or suspend your account when it goes over the limit (i.e. 1&1)
13) Submit un-biased news
If the headline doesn't scream hyperbole and the description doesn't wildly take things out of proper context, we don't Digg.
:-) - caworden, on 10/12/2007, -4/+30Good job by this guy!
Too funny... - ionbattle, on 10/12/2007, -1/+24clever use of nonstandard characters...I'll give it an 8.5
- insovietrussia, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2215) Submit duplicate stories
- slasherx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2111. Don't write an article called "How to Not Get On the Digg Homepage" or else you will be on digg for sure.
- Universal, on 10/12/2007, -0/+19"With that in mind, good luck! (And please don’t digg this article... mmokay?)"
↑ Made me → :) - leobaby, on 10/12/2007, -2/+19What's a homepage anyways?
- Dantetheinferno, on 10/12/2007, -3/+20How to get on Digg
1. Write something about how to work the system
2. Publish to Digg
3. ???
4. Profit. - Jimzip, on 10/12/2007, -1/+17Ha! The joke's on him. We all dugg his story!!
wait..
Jimzip :D - TheNik, on 10/12/2007, -2/+17Haha, number 1 isn't exactly true. Blogspam gets to the front page almost 90% of the time. ;D
- Cl1mh4224rd, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15@thenik: It's a sarcastic list. The only thing I haven't personally seen reach the front page is #4: Submit in Chinese or French.
- gregdigg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10@Universal
"↑ Made me → :)"
I predict this will be one of those things that I find amusing the first time I see it but soon grow sick of when thousands of people start doing it. - BornWithRage, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12Oh, the irony.
- Pelapp, on 10/12/2007, -0/+911) Criticize the Wii or fail to bash the PS3
12) Not include AMAZING! or Apple in you headline - verifex, on 10/12/2007, -4/+12Add to that:
14) Submitting a story while not being a top Digg user. - insovietrussia, on 10/12/2007, -1/+914) Submit duplicate stories
- M2Ys4U, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8He is the original source, so it's not blogspam.
- M2Ys4U, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarcasm
or
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satire - biff198, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7他们看不懂,他们不能digg
Just in case anyone is wondering, this is read "Tamen kan bu dong, tamen bu nung digg", which basically translates into "What they see and do not understand, they can not digg", which is correct Chinese grammar (chinese is my minor), so yes, He wrote the translation correctly. "What they do not understand, they cannot digg". - duality, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8@kelly
You're more right than you know. Digg isn't just anti-conservative...it's also anti-centrist! The number of times I've been dugg down for expressing centrist ideas (or trying to tell a liberal to stop doing everything he's accused conservatives of) is ridiculous.
Let's face it: if you're not pro-choice, anti-death, and anti-religion, then you're persona non grata on Digg if anybody figures it out. In fact, even if someone really is a hard-line liberal, all it takes is the mere accusation of having ONE conservative belief, and suddenly everything that person has ever posted is suspect. It's no wonder I don't comment as much as I used to. I mostly go to Slashdot for that. (Of course, that's _another_ bad subject for Digg.)
Ironically, you can sometimes gain a little respect if you explicitly say you're libertarian. Diggers conveniently forget that the libertarian viewpoint is actually just a nudge to the right of the centrist viewpoint. - kelly, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1011) mention anything that portrais christianity in a positive light
- thinkycap, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Pfft. Here's an even better guide:
1)Fail to mention your hate for Sony.
2)Fail to mention your hate for Microsoft.
3)Fail to mention your hate for Yahoo.
4)Fail to mention your hate for Bush.
5)Fail to mention your love for Apple.
6)Fail to mention your love for Linux.
7)Fail to mention your love for Google.
8)Fail to mention your love for the Wii.
9)Fail to care about what the resident grammar nazi's think of your submission description. - kelly, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6windwaker,
you can at least admit that this sight has an agenda to silence conservative viewpoints. - kelly, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6AMEN to that. You hit the nail on the head with that one sloof70.
- lava, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5"11) Submit your own blog
Nothing incites a fury of slathering Diggers and their cheesy-poof wrath faster than submitting content you created yourself. How dare you do such a thing! The horror! This can also be rephrased as "if it doesn't come from Gizmodo, stop while you're ahead."
I wrote something funny on my site and I was thinking about submitting it. I guess I'm not going to now. :( - SwissCamel, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7Suggest smoking weed is bad for you. You might as well set up a new account, no one will ever digg anything of yours again.
- Mootabolife, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I found that publishing the most controversial soda article ever works best.
- windwaker, on 10/12/2007, -5/+8oh, poor, poor you. is it hard to be a pretend martyr 24/7?
- slasherx, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4@bob
Clearly his intention was getting on digg, so of couse he thought of that! Otherwise he wouldn't be on the front page right now. I'm confused now. - Akronos, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3"(And please don’t digg this article... mmokay?)"
Damn reverse psychology! - bob12321, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Don't you think he should have thought about that earlier?
- jkwong1, on 10/12/2007, -4/+611) Link to an article expressing a conservative viewpoint.
- ray023, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2"Include spleling errors"
worst tip...Evar! - bbrockchalk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2why is this all so true so often...
- elnerdo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I'll tell you HOW to get on the front page, if you really care enough:
Go back two to three days.
Find a story with over 1000 diggs.
Submit it. Don't bother changing the title, description or URL.
You'll get to the front page. - Billiam627, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2#57
Don't constantly submit retarded conspiracy theories about 9/11. - neo164, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1love the size of the font!
- nunbot, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11. not write a story about how not to get on digg's frontpage
SPMMMMMSMSMMSMSMSMSM! - DarkPenguin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+110) Fail to mention your love for Ubuntu. :)
- sunamiebob, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1You've just set a bad example.
- ogletree, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Funny thing is you can go to Digg front page at any time of day and find sites that break all these rules. So it is not accurate. Title should be how to get on digg front page and then get buried.
- cawpin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1About 12)....So that's why no stories about Linux or any other free software that use donated money to maintain code ever get to the front page...Oh, wait.
- windwaker, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Anonymous represents the views of thousands. Digg is not tied to any one opinion. You are wrong.
- dtraneighty8, on 10/07/2008, -0/+1haha, i love this part
"geeks love Apple, and the rest loves Britney" - windwaker, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Well, the average digg user can't even vote, so... you kids are wrong. :)
- HaltingPoint, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1No kidding. I've submitted MANY stories I wrote myself, slaved over, went out and took exclusive photos for etc. Submitted to Digg because I thought it would be interesting for the target audience and what happens? Tons of comments about blog spam. The only reason I see is that I have a basic Blogger template.
So the real key is to have a unique template. If Diggers recognize your template as standard, you will get buried.
Oh, and for people who think us bloggers with a few AdSense units are raking in the cash if we get to the front page, guess what? Diggers don't click ads! Its statistically proven! So please stop using that as a reason for burying sites. Who cares if they have ***** ads on them. Don't click on them, they aren't doing anything to you! - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2This is justs tupid, since these types of submissions get on the front page ALL THE TIME.
- thinkycap, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Shame on me a thousand times...for I forgot the most important rule of them all.
10)Fail to mention you're an atheist. - iSlayer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The thing Ive noticed about the stories on digg is that some of them are pretty similar. So an example of this is if someone submits a story/link about photos and exposure...there is surely going to be a few of that on the front page, or if its "5 Great Ways To..." then there is someone out there that is looking at those stories and submitting something similar to that.
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