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- i440, on 10/12/2007, -4/+70Remember people, if you want to become a respected Digg user, there are a few rules you should follow.
1.) Always, always report a dupe the moment you see it. Say something along the lines of “DUPE! Please digg the original!” Doing so is a surefire way to gain trust and respect in Digg.
2.) Fanboyishly protect the software you use. In Digg, logic is frowned upon and it's use is discouraged. When defending software you use, never, never use factual information.
3.) Always include “LOL”, “ROFL”, or “LMAO” in your posts. The more of them in your post, the better.
4.) Please remember that correct spelling a grammer is completely unnecessary. For instance, I have spelling ‘grammer’ with an ‘e’. Do make sure that becomes habit. Also note the grammatical error is this item.
5.) Do troll whenever possible. This is a way to gain respect on Digg, along with positive diggs along the way.
6.) And most importantly, please, always submit entires from you blog, no matter how minor they may be. - geminitojanus, on 10/12/2007, -6/+29This is the worst navelgazing post of all time.
Next on Digg: How I jerked off Kevin Rose to get to #1. - evolseven, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2211. Submit stories on how-to become a top digg user.
- goalieca, on 10/12/2007, -0/+19All it takes is no wife, no girlfriend, no job, and no physical activity :D
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+21digg whore.
- PatrickX, on 10/12/2007, -0/+18Tip #1. Waste away all your free time submitting countless stories to try and achieve a meaningless rank
The site would be a lot better off without people who digg other people's stories because they're their "friends" and not because the stories are actually good... thanks for nothing - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+21i can tell a lot of people take digg far too seriously
- cody50, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1712. provide witty commentary.
- radicaldementia, on 10/12/2007, -2/+16I've only been submitting stories for about a week now, and already I've discovered a few tips from experience.
Check for dupes: Before you submit an article, run a search on keywords. If you suspect your story is not breaking news, like a cool webpage thats been up for a while, make sure you search more than 7days back.
USE THE SPELLCHECK. God help the soul who has a spelling error in a title or summary.
Don't randomly digg: Digging is meant to seperate the good from the bad. Digging stories that are cool or interesting to you is something you should do. Digging without even reading the article or just digging for the hell of it is something you should NOT do. Otherwise we'll all suffer from digg inflation. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12digg isn't an rpg with stats and *****. i think its time people recognized that. personally i liked digg better when people didn't give a damn about being a "top user"
- manicleek, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12Exactly how is being a top digg user a "valuable" achievment?
I think there would be more value in going out and getting a job! - wicked9, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12i don't digg for rankings
- Kev585, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10It's kinda dirty reducing digg to a popularity contest. Submitter seems to want to be highly ranked as much as he wants to submit quality material.
- elitexero, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11Who cares? Wowee, you went high on digg. Hurrah.
- vudicarus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Threre's something ethically dubious about tip 2: finding what's popular from sites like Delicious, Reddit, Netscape etc , and making it a story on Digg. With everyone employing that strategy, we'd just end up in an echo chamber.
- Snakedal337, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9It's ***** digg, are people really this worried about being a ***TOP RANKER***
Maybe if you were somewhere like netscape where they pay the top bloggers... - DNABeast, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Shouldn't this be called 'How to hack digg to make it a less valuable resource for everyone in the interests of shameless self promotion - Awesome!'?
And next an article about putting white text on a white background to make your site appear higher in the Google rankings. - drivingmenuts, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8links like this lead me to fear that digg is about to jump the shark or perhaps already has.
- mrASSMAN, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Summary: Spend your entire life on Digg, dedicating every waking minute to finding popular stories and submitting as many as you can as early as possible during the day, and rely on your cyber friends to boost your story to the front page.
- twertyto, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Umm...can somebody tell this guy this is not a contest. I would be nicer if he just had good insight into picking interesting stories instead of him making up an analytical method for selecting stories to submit.
- sgtpinky, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7I refuse to follow this link on principle - as Mel Gibson yelled in Braveheart, "Who's coming with me? And who's going home!?"
When you finish reading this story, you can read this interesting article I wrote called "10 simple steps to becoming a mindless knob." - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10Tip number 11: Don't blogspam Digg with ***** stories about how you are a top user to increase ad revenue on your blog. Dugg down for being completely and utterly pointless.
- robbh66, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9Honestly, this is a TERRIBLE thing to read for the digg community in general. 90% of it is tips on how to jump on the bandwagon, be uncreative with types of stories submitted, be trite with your headlines, be too creative with blurbs, and to make friends and digg their stories so they'll dig yours.
All you've accomplished here is basically show people shortcuts to un-deserved diggs for stories that shouldn't make the front page in the first place. This will make it worse. - glafira, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6He Cheated Digg and lived to tell the tale.
- vanlandw, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Personally digg has WAY to many "Top10 style stories" for my taste...
If I could block "top 10" stories I could...but he does make some good points about friends. I wish all the friends I know that read this site would sign up and digg stories. - harrisonpowers, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9Great tips man. I'm suprised at how well you've managed to do in under a year, good work.
- Chrissilvanet, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6True story, I read this and thought to myself "how pointless", not to cheapen the experience created by this site, but what exactly is the benefit of being top 100 digger?
- addiggt, on 07/06/2009, -1/+7I agree, but it's much less than under a year. This guy has only been a member since July 9th 2006, that's under a month...holy *****.
- def1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Same with #9:
"Rules of reciprocation is true for digg community, too. If you dugg your friends’ stories they respond positively and they start to dugg your stories, too."
Digging should be based on the merits of the submission, not based on returning favors. - eplawless, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7"Proud yourself to lead internet traffic."
Amen, brother. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6I think he's already answered that for you.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6@ozguralaz
I am speechless to consider that you could be THAT bereft of anything closely aproximating even the wildest imagining of a life. I'm noting your name to downvote all future stories submitted by you, and watching the comments to see the few who fawn over it so I can downvote everything *they* submit. This, sirs and madams, is a news site, where stories and comments are to be awarded or demerited based on their strengths and weaknesses as stories, and not because some fawning buttsucker wants to be the most popular prick at the prom.
GOD, can a decent person even think of you without puking???????? - robbh66, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5"What are your tips for success?"
I'd do everyone a favor and yank this story and make an apology. - rkettner, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6Come on... at least he spoke a good a english as I done.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5and honestly, someone has a ***** huge ego. i dont see kevin rose writing articles that say "how to make top ranked website-suck my balls bitches." +lame
- Mortiferous, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4In other words, now make your account more valuable for sale on ebay.
Tip #11: Alawys use the words Amazing! or Ubuntu in the title. Never mix the two for the power of the two words combining could cause blood to spew from your temple and effectively DESTROY whatever server the post is linked to. - ericeman, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Would have been a better article if the title was how to submit a worthy Digg story and not how to bump up your Digg reputation. It was interesting nontheless.
- hardkoretom, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7ozguralaz
what a jack ass. you dont see any of the other people with high rankings mock the rest of us users by posting that kind of crap. i think your account should be banned because you are a whore for yourself.
also, instead of putting 10 different ways, you should have just asked everybody if they had common sense. that would have been much simpler. - hackwrench, on 10/12/2007, -1/+41) Submit a lot of stuff. Some of it is sure to stick
2) Make up stuff that seems like it would lead to success but is essentially magic, so people think you are elite.
3) Proclaim that the magical stuff is in fact obvious to help keep people from realizing that the Emperor, in fact, has no clothes. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6enough said:
http://digg.com/userimages/o/z/g/ozguralaz/large2194.JPG - Phantom76, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3It is because you can soon be hired by Calacanis...
- nogami, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3That was sort of my reaction too... I don't pay any attention to the rankings - they're meaningless.
- waxpoet, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3When I read a front page story I want to know that it is there on its quality as a story, not because of the popularity of the submitter.
Tip #1: Apply the 'Common Sense' rule- what if everyone did it? Digg rankings (and thus front page stories) would become untrustworthy and people would lose respect for Digg.
Please digg stories based on their Merritt. ;) - mrASSMAN, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3This doesn't seem to working too well for him though, seeing as how only 11% of his stories make it to the front page. I have a higher percentage and I don't follow any specific rules. Digg is meant to be a casual site where you share internet treats that you are interested in. This guy's making it into a job.
Lame. (yeah i know, i replied to myself) - hardkoretom, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3he posted that he personally didnt find the news stories but used a service to do all of the work for him. what a lazy dope
- MrSunshine, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4It's "popular". not "populer". And don't Digg big stories that are lame just to get you to the top. ***** you.
- Kev585, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Also linking to any Colbert Report video on YouTube has a similar affect.
- CaptShmo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2i hope this is a parody... why can't we just use the site to inform and be informed? maybe remove the "overall" ranking will reduce people submitting fluff stories just for the sake of submitting...
- robbh66, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2....
Their not his friends. He saw the top people submitting, made them friends and dugg their stories. They inturn friend him, and digg his stories. Now the strangers get more stories on the front page because of each other.
Top submitters win, everyone else in digg loses. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I say, is that a bit of brown on the tip of the nose? And those creamy smears around the mouth...what has he been into?
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