Comments on: Are Digg Editors Manually Promoting Stories at Night?

By: hamtaro

hamtaro — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 21:38:55 +0000

Nice video.. Very interesting.. =0

By: Unemployed bum

Unemployed bum — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 10:33:03 +0000

Um yeah, it’s called time difference. Not everyone lives in America my friend.

By: Stealth Employed

Stealth Employed — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 16:06:44 +0000

I actually just started using digg recently and digg became my number one source of referrals within a week. I would like to become a digg power user so that I can get posted on the front page too. Thanks to the other commentators for your good ideas too.

By: Robert Richmond

Robert Richmond — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 02:52:14 +0000

While the numbers of Diggs per submission is typically the most publicly visible statistic in the ranking process, the rate of Diggs per submission is exceedingly important IMO, as noted by Scott in his above comments.

When submitting content to Digg, it is ideal to have a Digg strategy (friends, forum, etc.) in place to generate a steady pace of Diggs within the first one to two hours of submission. A sustained initial Digg rate can also serve to generate external interest, thus hopefully leading to increased click throughs and Digg feedback.

By: Scott

Scott — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 17:42:23 +0000

“how come some articles need like 200 diggs to get on the front page and some need only like 20, sure beats my brain”

It’s because they take a lot of factors into account, not just total diggs. I think the rate of diggs is very important: if something has 30 diggs over 3 hours it’s a lot hotter than getting even twice that many diggs over 20 hours.

By: Ritu

Ritu — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 02:31:33 +0000

Interesting analysis Scott!

the thing that I really dont understand about digg is how come some articles need like 200 diggs to get on the front page and some need only like 20, sure beats my brain

By: James

James — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 20:52:16 +0000

On other digg-like sites, I have even saw way less visitors than votes, meaning either that most of the user vote without looking at my content or that there’s something going on to make it look like there’s more voting activity than there really is.

By: Scott

Scott — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 20:34:29 +0000

Yeah it had like 80 diggs and was at the top of the most popular upcoming stories in tech but it just sat there for like 4 hours and never hit the homepage. Traffic from upcoming is very low, I got like 30 users from it. No idea why it didn’t get promoted though.

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 20:25:59 +0000

I noticed that you had quite a few diggs for one of your stories yesterday, did it bring much traffic?

By: Matt Jones

Matt Jones — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 19:18:21 +0000

I noticed that too, the story at the top of your screenshot is mine and (while frantically refreshing) got a little frustrated at the sudden drop of diggs, although it did eventually make it to page 1.

It is only my 2nd submission so I have a 50/50 success ratio So much for building up a respected profile!