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- Tribis, on 07/03/2008, -4/+215Submit something that MrBabyMan might enjoy and it will make it to the front page.
- Mononuclear, on 07/03/2008, -0/+167This list is why digg is getting worse and worse. If people only submitted articles that they honestly thought were good then there wouldn't be thousands of articles in upcoming. It would be much easier for people to browse upcoming and chose the really good ones from the few and have an extremely quality website.
Instead people submit every website they see in the hopes of getting to the frontpage or to get traffic to their site or a billion other reasons that have nothing to do with whether or not the content is actually good. In most cases the content isn't good. This created thousands of useless articles in the upcoming section that makes it impossible to actually stir through the ***** and find the worthwhile articles. Then you have the people who do what this article says and add hundreds of friends of people they don't know only to shout spam their article and circle jerk eachother saying "You digg mine and I'll digg yours" Then regardless of quality people digg each other's crap articles because they want someone to digg their crap article.
Long story short. If people only submitted worthwhile content that they honestly thought was really good and front page worthy then we would have problems and anyone would be able to get a front page article if it was good. Instead of being selfish idiots with ego trips trying to get famous on digg, If you cared about the site you would only submit quality articles in the effort to make this site better.
I don't care who submits an article. If it is good I digg it. If it sucks I bury it. If it is just ok I leave it alone. I have no friends because I don't want your shout spam to digg your crappy article. I have many fans none of them I have ever talked to or known. They added me in hopes I would add them and the circle jerk would continue. I refuse. - luke16, on 07/03/2008, -3/+118This is Digg:
Top 10 unknown Firefox addons!!!
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Another reason to hate American media
OMG check out this crazy stuff from Japan! haha i love Japanese people, i want to be japanese in almost every way.
De-motivational poster / LOLcat / douche bag pictures
Why *insert latest movie to come out* sucks / is amazing / teaches us about sex.
Why i love Digg screencaps
Operating system news/wars
The occasional news about Iraq
XKCD
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Articles about girlfriends that alot of users can't relate to but Digg it anyway
MrBabyMan/Badwithcomputers/MakiMaki/Zaibatsu - manzplan, on 07/03/2008, -3/+117indeed I have submitted some links that I KNOW are excellent quality.. and yet.. never made over 100 diggs..
I think 70 is the most I have ever had on any submission, and I really had to push for that... - Clark, on 07/03/2008, -5/+99Forgot to mention cats.
Meow!
*purr* - inactive, on 07/03/2008, -3/+79Another inconvenient truth of Digg: this article was at the front a month ago and will probably be back at the front in August.
Irony? - bxblox, on 07/03/2008, -1/+76Solution: eliminate "friends" on digg.
- ivosilva, on 07/03/2008, -0/+71Well, I submited a story that has 995 diggs, and it never was popular, and wasnt featured at the front page, while this story has 174 at the moment and is on front page. I'd like to understand THAT.
- vitalpixel, on 07/03/2008, -4/+62very truthful :)
- thekassette, on 07/03/2008, -0/+39Okay, can someone please explain something to me? Like the majority of Diggers, I'm mostly a lurker here: I check in once or twice a day to see if anything significant has hit the front page. I comment/digg/bury occasionally, but mostly just wander here for the lulz and such.
My question is this: WHAT IS SO AWESOME ABOUT HAVING A STORY YOU SUBMIT HIT THE FRONT PAGE? More specifically, what is so awesome about it that one would, as the link suggests, "try to get over 100 diggs before 24 hours is spent" or spend time building a sizable network of "friends"? Is there a cash prize? Is it just sort of a for-the-hell-of-it game with a validating win?
I don't mean any offense, so please don't bury. I just get more curious about the payoff every time I read one of these "how to get your story on Digg's front page" stories. Thanks. - thailand1972, on 07/03/2008, -2/+37.....as a re-submission of the same story by MrBabyMan.
- thedogfatherx, on 07/03/2008, -2/+36I think MrBabyMan has no life.
- MrTito, on 07/03/2008, -0/+28I dunno, it's very early in the process to say it with certainty, but I think this recommendation engine might change all that. For a while perhaps, anyhow. I don't think I've dugg a MrBabyMan article since the change. The only politcal article on the front page right now is from the Onion and it's about Bush. Weirdness.
That's not to say that suddenly there's great content filling up the front page, but it looks like there's been an impact. - mustache, on 07/03/2008, -0/+28Someone should give you a prize.
- deltron, on 07/03/2008, -0/+23Amazing. It honestly feels like yesterday when you can submit a story and it'd be on the first page of "Upcoming" for atleast 20 minutes.
- MarkusX, on 07/03/2008, -0/+21I, too, seem to have read this exact text just recently somewhere else or I am suffering from a really vivid Deja-Vue. Hmmm...?
Well, a little "digging" through Scott's submissions revealed, that he submitted this exact text not quite 3 weeks ago with a different headline.
http://digg.com/tech_news/7_Things_You_Must_Unders ...
Now, giving you the benefit of the doubt, and hoping that you did that for research purposes only (because it's a good article and what you write in it is quite true!), I won't asssume any evil intention behind the double submission.
But I think i'd be better if you continued your digging in the future with _new_ articles. I do understand, however, that you wanted to get that article out in this forum. What better audience for your article is there than the digg users themseves? None. - IMA_Sellout, on 07/03/2008, -0/+21I hear ya... during this whole Canada-DMCA debacle I put up a good primer on what this whole thing is and i think it barely left single digits...
- flashback99, on 07/03/2008, -0/+20that's quite interesting. I wonder if theres a way to track the slow burners on digg?
- ChaosProfessor, on 07/03/2008, -10/+28as a guy that has not once posted XKCD or zero punctuaton or suck at photoshop I have made front page and most popular for 24 hours once and i have a story now that is working its way to the front page. My boss has posted the video of the why you should buy wii fit. and that was in the top for the last 30 days
- tcpip4lyfe, on 07/03/2008, -10/+28Buried because Im a dick like that.
- masterm1nd, on 07/03/2008, -5/+21I think the diggs that stories get from friends shouldn't count. For instance if you and a friend digg the same thing it should count as one. That would solve a lot of this.
- RachaelMichele, on 07/03/2008, -0/+16word. I have never added a single friend request for this reason.
- fas2, on 07/03/2008, -0/+16100% agreed.
- V3n0M, on 07/03/2008, -0/+16I thought you were making that up but there it is:
http://digg.com/odd_stuff/Sometimes_you_just_post_ ...
Make it 998 diggs now! - Gatesophile, on 07/03/2008, -1/+17I have friends and fans, but I turned shouts off. It got WAY too annoying. No, I WON'T digg your ***** story because you'll digg mine in return. ***** you.
- inactive, on 07/03/2008, -0/+15I submitted an article it got 10 diggs
2 days later a dupe appeared on page one.
i wouldn't care but, it would have been nicer to discuss the article when it was fresh and not close to out of date..
to the people saying why do you care...think.
3 ways to get an article on the front page.
Have a powerful name
submit a guarantee (xkcd)
spam out friend requests...
None of them rely on QUALITY........ - WallnutBoy, on 07/03/2008, -0/+15Congratulations. You win! =D
Except you forgot about ZeroPunctuation videos and self-hating articles about why/how Digg is going downhill. - Asrrin29, on 07/03/2008, -0/+15I pretty much do the same thing. I am a reader on digg, not a submitter. If something is really good, I dig it, if it is really bad I bury it, and if it's just ok I leave it alone.
- potamkin, on 07/03/2008, -4/+18I'm with you on the never ending Firefox articles. Get over it, its a browser
- dgaspard, on 07/03/2008, -1/+15I've read this before. It's been on the front page.
- samimy, on 07/03/2008, -5/+18you are right !
i have seen these days allot of crab and ***** just get on front page !
i am fed-up of digg !
they should change the way it is ! - cl0n3x, on 07/03/2008, -3/+16Two words can almost guarantee you get to the front: Friends+Shouts
- thedogfatherx, on 07/03/2008, -0/+12Sometimes it's for sad and lonely reasons. Hence people who want to get articles on the frontpage of digg. Makes them feel special when in reality it's a worthless accomplishment that nobody gives a ***** about.
- bwdd, on 07/03/2008, -2/+13I see you got the joke.
...good for you! - arjie, on 07/03/2008, -0/+11That's only natural, I would think. I know that I pay very little attention to the 1 digg articles, the 2s, 3s and 5s are more interesting. At each stage, you open yourself to more people. Many will be interested in the article when it breaks into the upcoming list for most diggs. Until you get there the large majority will miss your story, so you need friends to promote it when its young.
It's like any other thing, in the beginning you're just another face in the crowd. If there's actually something to you, popularity will increase exponentially, it's contagious.
***** digg comment box, bouncing up and down like some *****. Can't hit the save comment button. - Dyre, on 07/03/2008, -1/+10I would assume the main reason is that it draws people to your website/blog/whatever which, if the article has nothing to do with you and getting your message/idea/opinion out there, then it is probably bringing you money because you have some sort of ads on your site.
For the people that actually do straight-up reporting (just the facts) or find articles to post, I'm sure it's some kind of rush to be the first/best one to write about/post something people are interested in. It's a popularity contest....kind of. - toxicityj, on 07/03/2008, -0/+9*digg digg digg*
- Pauli92, on 07/03/2008, -0/+9The truth is you submit it and if it doesn't get ten diggs in about ten minutes you might as well considered it buried :(
- tehknotte, on 07/03/2008, -0/+9ah so that's why it smelled fishy.
- nohero, on 07/03/2008, -0/+9not really sure what you mean?
- Neo829, on 07/03/2008, -2/+11I expected the article to just say "make sure your article is from The Huffington Post."
Also, this guy's writing style is really annoying. The little "oh, look how I am self-analyzing my own writing in the middle of my article" thing got old quick. - mychaleg, on 07/03/2008, -1/+10If not getting content you didn't even create on the front page of digg troubles you, you need to get some sun. You want a pat on the back for surfing the internet? In the grand scheme of things what the hell does it matter? Most of the stuff posted on here is effin LAME anyway...why strive to be popular in the midst of mediocrity? Making the front page of digg is like getting a gold medal - in the Special Olympics. Seacrest out.
- cwmather, on 07/03/2008, -1/+10What world do you live in where conservative articles make it to the front page?
- tian2992, on 07/03/2008, -0/+8I disagree, i am very select with the friends I add, and I almost always digg their submissions, because the submissions are of great Quality. Still I hate that many bad content gets front paged just because their friends dugg It.
I suggest get rid of shouts. - quomen, on 07/03/2008, -0/+7Yeah, I tried submitting a bunch of stories a while back. I beat a bunch of people to some interesting news articles but it didn't matter. My name lacks the words Man. And Mr. and Baby. In no particular order. The only popular submission I had was when I submitted a link to a poll to help support Ron Paul on MSNBC's website. I was buried after front page :P
- intelligen, on 07/03/2008, -0/+7Hmmm...or post an article whining about not being able to make it to the front page.
I just use Digg to find a few interesting articles each day. I've never posted anything, and I really don't care to. If everything that was posted was interesting, I'd probably end up wasting even more of my life online, which would be a bad thing. - D4CH, on 07/03/2008, -0/+7ONE THOUSAND! Kachiiiiing!
- Julz, on 07/03/2008, -2/+9so you got this story to the front page using one of those two tactics? or could it just be that its a interesting submission?
- deathsythe, on 07/03/2008, -3/+9You are the type of digg-sheep that prevents any kind of non-obama praising article from making it to the front page, and yet you can think that? Disgusting.
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