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- inactive, on 06/26/2008, -2/+29When BREAKING is in the headline it just seems like the submitter is being an attention-whore, the story is usually 10 hours old by the time it hits the front page and chances are it isn't all that big of a deal anyway ('BREAKING: Something scheduled 6 weeks ago went as was expected!). I bury them far more often than I digg them.
- thedp, on 06/26/2008, -4/+28Who cares?
- toastgodsupreme, on 06/26/2008, -2/+23None of this matters. MrBabyMan will simply dupe your story and then have his army bump it up.
We really need to get rid of the whole friends/tracking *****. Before it came about, it was a matter of getting your headline in there and having people see it on the upcoming feed or link your friends to it.
Now, all that's been taken out. A small percentage of submitters can submit ANY story and have it go to the front page despite whether it's crap or not. While the rest of the submitters on Digg watch as their same stories, submitted earlier or near the same time, die out.
The friends/tracking system has ruined Digg. - alapoet, on 06/26/2008, -8/+29Excellent, excellent advice.
So many times I day, I realize that lots of Diggers have no real idea of how to write and spin a headline -- or a description.
A snappy, catchy headline is critical! It can make all the difference in going front page. And the number of diggs you get once you get there. - masterm1nd, on 06/26/2008, -0/+18Also, exaggeration, lies, and misspellings for some odd reason.
- DiggzDE, on 06/26/2008, -0/+16Wait? So this article is showing you how to make MORE creative duplicate topics?
Why is everything a ***** race for popularity. I hate Digg spammers who shout every damn article they find on the internet. - FishHammer, on 06/26/2008, -1/+15everyone knows putting [NSFW] in the title is the only way to guarentee thousands of hits
- life38, on 06/26/2008, -1/+12It's funny how digg allows breaking news from multiple sources but allows diggers to bury original content or call it spam.
- Sagags, on 06/26/2008, -1/+9I get it because diggers normally put breaking in the titles of their submissions hoping to get diggs, but by the time it reaches the homepage it is no longer breaking news anymore
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+++++++++++++Digg - jaybol, on 06/26/2008, -2/+10cool article...great suggestions for thinking of different angles on a major news story
- revellian, on 06/26/2008, -5/+12One of the best articles on using Digg I've seen
- cuoops, on 06/26/2008, -0/+6Breaking, usually isn't breaking by the time it hits the front page.
- ThinkBox, on 06/26/2008, -0/+6Honestly the next thing that wil happen.. tons of dupes that have good front page titles that all still get burried or dont front page. If they arent top submitters, fluke stories, or spame friends - they wont front page more than a few times.
Digg has ceased to reward most of its first users, the community has been ransacked and the older diggers have left. (I'd love to see data on this, but Im just going on 2 and 1/2 years of using this site daily... sorry if that isnt enough research for you) - hapax, on 06/26/2008, -1/+7Exploit any Apple or Obama angle.
Those seems to be good enough for Digg. No need to be too creative. - piratearggghhh, on 06/26/2008, -0/+5I've given up submitting stories to digg.
- PeanutCheeseBar, on 06/26/2008, -1/+6...or you could be like MrBabyMan, take the same article that everyone else has submitted, and give it a tasteless title.
- WhoBob, on 06/26/2008, -0/+4Wish someone would filter the huffington Post
- SherpaHyde, on 06/26/2008, -2/+5Digg - dogg - dugg - how to relaunch a story with a new angle
- digitronix, on 06/26/2008, -0/+3??????????????????
- benologist, on 06/26/2008, -0/+3100+ friends you swap diggs with is what makes the difference. Bonus points for sensationalism.
- Drahkar, on 06/26/2008, -0/+3No kidding. How about instead of 'Creatively Naming Topics', if you were to 'Say what the article is ***** about specifically'.
Who knows, maybe if you actually said that the article was about 'Texas Ranchers go on strike' instead of 'Texas Ranchers pull the plug on produce' or some other stupid title then people would realize they were posting a duplicate title and stop. Sure it wouldn't stop everyone. There are a lot of headcases out there that can't figure out that duping is bad. But I bet it would help some of them stop. - Abomonog, on 06/26/2008, -0/+2No sometimes people just don't care. I posted the Supreme Court ruling on the death penalty for child rapists yesterday. Definitely the first. However, neither my posting or the tolls who copied it made the first page. I though it was interesting because the vote was right down party lines with no actual consideration what so ever. But no one on Digg really cared. No biggie. Articles like this always generate more interesting comments on rotten.com anyways. Some things just don't generate the interest here.
- ScotchInBox, on 06/26/2008, -1/+3+1 for the "journalism 101" advice
-10 for suggesting to use Breaking in the title - buried - Bryony, on 06/26/2008, -0/+2Gosh aren't we living in a competitive world? We are even pitting ourselves against each other in our leisure time, competing to be heard and to be popular. Yawn! I joined Digg because I thought it would be a good way to share information with an online community. What's the point in trying to recycle other people's words and news? Use your creativity and initiative to write your own stories
- inactive, on 06/26/2008, -1/+3Stop anyone who submits any duplicates for submitting for a week.
- inactive, on 06/26/2008, -0/+1On userscripts.org, if you search for "Digg Filter," you'll find a Greasemonkey script by the same name that will allow you to filter out huffingtonpost.com stories. Works for me.
- iguanapunk, on 06/26/2008, -0/+1The article forgot to mention that if you put 'digg' in the title it's guaranteed to get to the front page :P
- MtheoryX, on 06/26/2008, -0/+1You also don't run Digg. Supposedly the majority runs Digg.
Not that I agree with it, but if they don't find it interesting, it doesn't hit the front page. Simple as that. - maddvibe, on 06/26/2008, -0/+1I don't use social news sites to find breaking news, stories typically aren't breaking once they hit front page.
- strategy, on 06/26/2008, -0/+1L@@K
- livejamie, on 06/26/2008, -1/+2Hey I submitted this already!
- gn0stik, on 06/26/2008, -0/+1Exactly. For example, why isn't the North Korean thing on the front page today? Or the SCOTUS Second Amendment ruling? These are truly important news items yet..... *cricket*, they are being buried or simply passed by in favor of inconsequential garbage today.
I don't get it. - judicar, on 06/26/2008, -1/+2Great advice, how's this one?
Social Acceptance: How getting on the front page means you're a better person. - afterwego, on 06/26/2008, -0/+1What usually ends up happening is that when something is "Breaking" and "BREAKING" is in the title it does not show up on the front page of Digg where most attention is given by users until its no longer "Breaking" news. You can't call a story breaking after its more than a few hours old and this is usually the time it takes some of these articles to reach the top layer. I totally ignore stories with "BREAKING" in the title because frankly I find it annoying and totally unnecessary. If the story is good enough to make the front page it will make it there without "BREAKING" in the title. Just my two cents.
- Bryony, on 06/26/2008, -0/+1Haha.. good point well made. What's going on with this site? Do people really need affirmation from strangers that they can think of catchy headlines?
- rockstarhour, on 06/26/2008, -0/+1Duplicates how? Clearly, some sources are better for news than others. I submit whatever I want, and don't really care if it gets popular. If I think it's the best story on the subject, that's what matters. And somebody's gonna read that *****!
- johnwastaken, on 06/26/2008, -0/+1Celtics won the NBA championship?
- kevman459, on 06/27/2008, -0/+1OMG they mentioned Digg!
digg digg digg digg. - scoottie, on 06/27/2008, -0/+1yes
- themastersb, on 06/26/2008, -0/+1The title, description, and the server that the article of this story is hosted on don't seem to fit up to my standards. I'm going to resubmit it in a couple weeks so people can see it properly.
- scoottie, on 06/26/2008, -1/+1well first you need a story that more than one city cares about. No one outside of Boston cares about Boston. KG was a good guy but the last couple years he has become a real ass. Pierce is a cry baby, the best thing he did was fake an injury to inspire his team. And Boston had Sam Cassel who is the lowest of low in sportsmanship because he held his breathe until he turned blue like a little kid so the Clippers would release him so he can sign with some other team for his own personal gain.
I know it was just an example but it was a bad one to use. - Duositex, on 06/26/2008, -2/+2Ramen brother.
- inactive, on 06/26/2008, -1/+1No.
- diggopolous, on 06/26/2008, -2/+1Buried as duplicate.
- cjpluta, on 06/26/2008, -1/+0Great! Now if diggers would only use this... then the interwebs can be a better place..
- wjackson, on 06/26/2008, -2/+1A+++++ would digg again!
- mattearle, on 06/26/2008, -2/+1Dugg for a great article from a great social media marketing company.
- netgeek06, on 06/26/2008, -4/+2Tweaking or breaking the Digg heading is key for success in Digg.
- inactive, on 06/26/2008, -5/+3"It's what can make or break a story."
Yeah, the story really has no bearing on this, does it...
/sarcasm -
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