TechBuzz: Why Digg Top Users Always Stay on The Top ?
Ajay D'Souza
· 3 years ago
Was Digg democratic?
Ajay D'Souza
· 3 years ago
BTW, added you as friend
Steven Bao
· 3 years ago
Very interesting analysis, Thilak. I think that Digg users do not realize that by voting for their friends' posts they will trump other posts that might be interesting, maybe more interesting. At the time of this comment there were 11/14 frontpages made by some guy named aaaz - he has pages upon pages of front page posts - and has 400 friends.
So concluding, Digg does NOT have a democratic system of voting - my submitted stories' diggs went up as I befriended top Digg guys. Well, in voting theory, it does, but in reality it does not as people almost *mindlessly* vote for articles their friends dugg.
Nowadays I use digg (I submitted an article about Itanium 2 being released - maximum 10 diggs much less a front page) and Reddit, which is proving to be a better service for tech AND other news (though I do realize Digg has other news as well.)
Good article.
Thilak
· 3 years ago
Ajay: Digg was meant to be democratic. Thanks for adding me as your friend.
Thilak
· 3 years ago
Steven: Reddit is hell lot democratic, I had also drafted it on this post, but later I decided not to because it would get off topic
Thilak
· 3 years ago
Thanks everyone for adding me as your Digg buddy
TechZ
· 3 years ago
It's true, keep a good circle of friends and watch IRC for thilak's diggs ;)
Cross-digging works, it may not be how digg.com wants things to work, but they can't really stop it.
Vyoma
· 3 years ago
I realized that. But even then, on the day of submission and following few days, I have seen a lot of traffic coming in from there.
BTW, added you as friend.
Thilak
· 3 years ago
Vyoma: Yeah, Digg has always been a source of high Traffic. Thanks for adding me as a friend
kevin
· 3 years ago
i added you too...my username is raoultg
kevin
· 3 years ago
this is actually a brilliant way to get friends
kevin
· 3 years ago
Actually reddit.com is even easier to manipulate and can lead to diggs. you only need about 10 friends in reddit to get some nice traffic
Thilak
· 3 years ago
Kevin: Yeah, Its all the same.. add me as Reddit buddy (I'm as attackr on Reddit)
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So concluding, Digg does NOT have a democratic system of voting - my submitted stories' diggs went up as I befriended top Digg guys. Well, in voting theory, it does, but in reality it does not as people almost *mindlessly* vote for articles their friends dugg.
Nowadays I use digg (I submitted an article about Itanium 2 being released - maximum 10 diggs much less a front page) and Reddit, which is proving to be a better service for tech AND other news (though I do realize Digg has other news as well.)
Good article.
Cross-digging works, it may not be how digg.com wants things to work, but they can't really stop it.
BTW, added you as friend.