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The Digg Algorithm - Unofficial FAQ
seopedia.org — Since Digg doesn ’t offer an official FAQ (the reasons are the same why Google doesn’t offer an official algorithm FAQ - so people can’t abuse), I decided to write a few of my findings along the way. These are unofficial, unsupported points and are purely my personal ramblings. So if someone has any objections, please do comment.
CristianMezei- 336 diggs
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- IvanB, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12"# The number of comments, and the positive diggs that each article receives. If you have a lot of negative rated comments that can hurt more then help actually. If you have 30 comments, and 20 are rated below -4, you’ll probably not make it to the frontpage. This function might not be implemented yet, as Kevin noted in one ZDnet interview, but it seems to me that it is."
That seems like a pretty bad idea. All Anti-"something" people will just troll the hell out of an article, people will mod them down, but they'll be satisfied 'cause the article will never make it to the homepage.- CristianMezei, on 10/12/2007, -3/+12Ivan, those are my findings. Once again, I am not trying to teach people how to spam Digg. These are just my findings about my experience with Digg. And I am certain that most of the top Digg users don't know some of them.
- msaleem, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Great work Christian, I enjoyed reading it. Give a lot of insight. Thanks.
- MrBabyMan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Well researched article. It's good to see these figures in a concrete form; it takes some of the "voodoo" out of it.
- slashdotislame, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4What? No that's sillly.
If an article is totally wrong and everyone points it out, those posts will be digged up - and the article will gain more power, for the wrong reason!
- Gregd, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Cristian,
I put what I thought was a thoughtful comment on your blog and you seemed to have erased it. Any reason why?
Peace out...- CristianMezei, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6Greg, I never deleted an article on my blog, good or bad. I hate censorship, thus this article. It was Akismet who blocked your comment. I now released it. Thanks for the comments guys. And if anyone of the top diggers have anything to comment to the article, I will gladly re-edit it and add your info, with a link to the comment owner.
- goat2, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10thats not the digg algorithm. this is:
if article is in the apple section, promote to front page- CristianMezei, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5Goat, we all agree that certain types of articles get on the frontpage easier: Apple, Firefox, Wordpress, Money. But what I was talking about there, are the more technical issues :-)
- goat2, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7yeah the technical issues of writing the code to promote all apple articles to the front page.
- CristianMezei, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3And as I suspected, this story was burried.
http://digg.com/view/all/upcoming/most
It doesn't show up.- MrPig, on 10/12/2007, -8/+1Please bury this - typed in wrong area.
- WillSpencer, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4That's too bad, this is a great article.
- CristianMezei, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5Well, I hate these bury freaks. I hate Digg for not doing anything about it. Some of the berst stories on Digg are buries by trolls. And it's not just this. A LOT of other stories Will. There has to be some sort of control.
This way, I can ask 10 of my friends to bury a certain story, or gang up on a user, and none of the stories I want will get on the frontpage.
A system that's not unanimous, MUST be implemented into Digg, so that we can protect ourselves from trolls that bury stories. I have nothing against the official Digg team. They are doing their best. My problem is with some of Digg's 360.000 users.
- CristianMezei, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5Well, I hate these bury freaks. I hate Digg for not doing anything about it. Some of the berst stories on Digg are buries by trolls. And it's not just this. A LOT of other stories Will. There has to be some sort of control.
- AnthonyArrigo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I've had a vague notion of how things moved up the food chain... Thanks for providing some additional insight!
- frak, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2great read.
I agree that gits burying things because they can are a PITA- CristianMezei, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Arg can Urh egh learn ITWE English.
Geez'.
- CristianMezei, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Arg can Urh egh learn ITWE English.
- axelkreuzberg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1There has to be a feature added such as people who bury stories MUST enter a reason why
- InstantABS, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Definitely so.
- Rogeroger, on 03/24/2008, -0/+0Was this buried?
- jp135, on 04/10/2008, -0/+0nice article that, thanx alot
dugg!!
http://www.loadedarticles.com/blog - Tidia, on 04/26/2008, -0/+0Very interesting article.
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