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11. Submit stories on how-to become a top digg user.

Great tips man. I'm suprised at how well you've managed to do in under a year, good work.

Threre'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.

This is the worst navelgazing post of all time.

Next on Digg: How I jerked off Kevin Rose to get to #1.

Tip 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.

Who cares? Wowee, you went high on digg. Hurrah.

i don't digg for rankings

digg whore.

links like this lead me to fear that digg is about to jump the shark or perhaps already has.

It'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.

Personally 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.

enough said:

http://digg.com/userimages/o/z/g/ozguralaz/large2194.JPG

It'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...

Exactly how is being a top digg user a "valuable" achievment?

I think there would be more value in going out and getting a job!

Umm...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.

digg 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"

Shouldn'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.

and 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

ozguralaz

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.

Would 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.

I 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."

Summary: 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.

In 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.

He Cheated Digg and lived to tell the tale.

@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????????

When 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. ;)

i 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...

i wouldnt discourave this enthusiasm, it's this desire to serve the community that makes digg such a kickass news site. i was listening to this thing in japan about coffee... its a long story but my point is that in its early phases cafes were meeting places for smart people where anyone could pay a penny for a cup of cofee and learn more than they could at school. digg is like that.

"I'm noting your name to downvote all future stories submitted by you"

I'm there too.

Useful tips +, internal commentary -

It's "popular". not "populer". And don't Digg big stories that are lame just to get you to the top. ***** you.

This is a super ey opener and a proof that the top talented people are constantly willing to share there knowledge to make this whole world Smart, have u considered a career in Viral Marketing consultancy??!!! - Mozomo

guys, it might be time to get a life

Gee, that's why anyone who posts articles containing a critique of Digg's system is booed instantly.

Sveral people have already warned the digg community about this before, but the far greater number of mindless digg sheep shut them up, praising "news posting open to all". Well, few of us have studied journalism and its basic rules.

I want quality, not quantity, and I'm just losing time here on Digg. Hoping its management will make it turn better, more organized. With the tens of millions they have made? I bet they don't want to change a thing!

I might be canceling my account soon.

I like your article.

This is a very smart article, because he could have just kept his mouth shut and continued to scale to the top. Nobody would have noticed.

But no... he wrote it to prove a point. It's an excellent observation of how swarming, alterior motives, and other things you wouldn't usually think about can affect a crowd-driven site like digg. Love it or hate it, it gets you to think about why we do the things we do.

And for that... Digg +1.

Others may not have enjoyed your article. But I enjoyed it. Thanks. Best of luck with your future Digg popularity success.