Guest Post by Digg User HunterGreen
I was banned the other day. I’m back now, thanks to the wonderful and quick reactions by the Digg staff. I submitted something of questionable use and they removed both the story and me, but they let me back in after an email.
I hope I don’t sound ingrateful when I say that I should still be banned and many of the recent people who were banned should be unbanned. It’s just how I feel. I submitted, on the request of a friend, a piece that was attached to her business. I didn’t see any harm in it. My account has been mostly dormant for a few months now. I’m not a complete stranger to the front page having submitted 5 front page stories in the past, but 2008 hasn’t been much of a go for me. I come back on every couple of months, see the spam, and leave. Lately I’ve been active, but only just a little. Read the rest of this entry
Guest Post by George Fidelman, Digg name withheld
When this Blog About Digg thing came about, I almost started a blog just to get involved. Thankfully, the good folks at Nethackz agreed to post it for me.
Digg, you need to learn to communicate. It’s that simple. When Kevin and Jay got on The Drill Down last year, they were asked about a Digg Forum. Not only did they say it was a great idea, but they mentioned that it was already in development. That was almost a year ago, and we still have nothing.
Sure, they have the Digg blog, but only a small fraction of users actually read it. So when they posted that the scripts were against TOU and need to stop, a lot of people missed the message. A lot of people got banned. Read the rest of this entry
This is a guest post. Author requested to remain anonymous.
When I first came to Digg in 2006, I lurked around the pages for several months. It was a tool to me, something that I could use to get the latest tech news. I eventually joined in 2007 and started posting stories, mostly from my employer’s site, which was tech related.
In July, 2007, I launched my own blog. I was never a successful Digger, but I watched and learned and started mimicking some of the people who were hitting the front page. I dugg a lot of stories in an effort to get noticed, and one day, it worked. I had a story that I submitted from Mashable hit the front page. From there, I was hooked.
I would submit every tech story I could find that was interesting. Sometimes it was from my own site, sometimes it was from my new employer’s site, but mostly it was just cool stuff. I made a lot of friends and in January, 2008, my site hit the front page. My server held up, my site got a lot of exposure, and I was on cloud 9. Read the rest of this entry
There has been a flood of interest surround “
Digg Blog Day” tomorrow. Many users want to speak their mind, but either don’t have a blog or do not want to feel the “
wrath of Digg” for posts written on their blog.
Nethackz has no fear of Digg, so several of the stories will be posted here on their behalf. It isn’t that we don’t like Digg – on the contrary, it has been very good to this blog over the past few months. No, this is about the recent changes and the fear that has been set upon the Digg community. People want to speak out. They just can’t for fear of being “next”.
Check it out tomorrow. It looks like there are dozens of posts flooding in — we will get 4 or 5 of them and post them here. If you want to write about Digg, their recent changes, and how to fix it, you are encouraged to do so on your own blog and post the link at Social News Central. If you would like to post but remain anonymous, contact JD Rucker at jd.rucker.oboy@gmail.com – he is compiling them right now.
Write on!
The first story about Sarah Palin to hit the front page of Digg had the neutral title “McCain picks Alaska governor as running mate”. It was a CNN piece that broke the news and shot up the Digg “Top in All Topics” section to get over 5600 Diggs.
It’s all gone downhill ever since for the Republican Vice-Presidential Candidate as far as Digg users are concerned.
Ever since the first neutral story announcing John McCain’s selection, there have been 150 front page stories in 11 Days about Sarah Palin. All of them have had a negative spin. As far as Digg and social media is concerned, Sarah Palin is pure evil.
The first mini-wave of attacks focused on her opinions on the environment. Four stories hit the front page on the first day denouncing her stance on green issues with headlines such as “Palin denies global warming is man-made” and “Sarah Palin: A Champion For Big Oil“. Once that was established, the real attacks started hitting.
The weekend offered several interviews about Palin from friends and enemies all spun to depict her poorly in one way or another. There were several rumors offering proof that she was actually the grandmother of her youngest child. Scholars, former colleagues, and other political experts ripped her experience and choices made in the past. All of this was simply a precursor for the bomb that was about to be dropped on Monday.
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Although I am a pretty active digg user it was a surprise for me. I have been seeing stories on upcoming for more than 24 hours and as usual my first guess was that it might be a bug on digg’s algorithm, but I guess that’s not true. After talking to couple friends on IM, I think it is pretty much confirmed that Digg has changed it’s algorthm to let submissions stay for 48 hours before it is kicked out of the upcoming section. Although nothing is official since Digg can’t disclose any changes regarding changes in algorithm, it seems like the change has been made. Here are a few images from the most diggs upcoming pages which clearly show that stories will stay for more than 24 hours in the upcoming section. Read the rest of this entry
