19 Jul

Digg Should Be Burried!

Category: Possibly Useful Stuff

How does it make sense that an article that was submitted to digg gets more than 1600 votes and nearly 90 comments and does NOT go popular?

Anyone regular to digg probably knows this isn’t the first time something like this has happened - but what gives? Is there some conspiracy against Joss Whedon here?

I’ve just gotta ask what’s the point of digg if the popular stuff doesn’t get to be popular?

Before anyone says it, this isn’t about a bunch of Whedon fans getting their knickers in a twist - Dr Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog is attracting the interest of mainstream media, not just Whedon fans. Dr Horrible is as much about changing the face of entertainment as we know it today as it is about merely entertaining a few fans.

io9.com reports:

If online video is ever going to become a medium that challenges network TV, that challenge is going to start with shows like Dr. Horrible. Shows that aren’t afraid to be what they are. You know, blogs. Where people sing and wear rubber gloves and take over the world.

Dr Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog is without a doubt worthy of being called popular all over the internet, appearing on the front page of the LA Times, TIME, MSN.com, Google News - Entertainment, Cinema Blend, MeeVee and many others. Perhaps most importantly - because it involves people parting with hard earned cash - after only a few hours of being listed on iTunes it shot to #1 TV season and within 24 hours of being listed was #1 TV episode downloaded. So, is this proof of a digg conspiracy?

Note: I was watching both these items and they had many many votes within 24 hours of being posted

UPDATE: it’s interesting to note that a representitive of digg? posted this comment on the Dr Horrible website where reference to this article was made.

“There is no conspiracy. We love Dr. Horrible.”

It’s also interesting to note that we were neither banned nor “burried” for this particular digg (good news) however it didn’t make popular receiving only around 90 votes.


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Posted Saturday, July 19th, 2008 at 8:08 am
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Chris Lang
July 19th, 2008 at 10:04 am

What do you mean, the DR Horrible article got 1600 votes, I just looked at it, it has 372 Diggs.

http://digg.com/television/Dr_Horrible_s_Sing_Along_Blog_Act_1

The reason you did not go front page is that you got the bury button clicked on you.

Buries count 1 bury to 100 Diggs. So if you get any buries at all in the first 100 Diggs, then you never show up in the top results in what ever category you submitted your post in.

Since you never show up then you never get the Digg clicks that come from catagory surfers.

Also once you get buried even once you NEVER show up in a Digg search without clicking the “include buried stories” checkbox.

Want to go front page on Digg, contact me and I will tell you how, it’s easy.

Next, delete this article immediately, this is the worst thing you can submit to Digg.

http://digg.com/world_news/Digg_Should_Be_Burried

Submitting articles critical of Digg will get you banned by the Digg mafia in a heartbeat. If that does not happen, they will just bury all your submissions till you give up and go away.

This article will do nothing but hurt you and get this domain banned from Digg. I learned the hard way with this one:

http://www.keywebdata.com/?p=79

Published that article and my domain was banned from Digg before the article ever even got submitted to Digg.

Never ever submit SEO articles, articles critical of Digg or email marketing and Internet marketing at all to Digg.

Don’t believe me? Google “digg mafia” and see what you get.

I do social bookmarking consulting and I am an EXPERT, so get in touch.

Cheers = Chris Lang

TalHost
July 19th, 2008 at 10:18 am

this is the one that got 1600 hits http://digg.com/television/Official_Website_for_Dr_Horrible_s_Sing_Along_Blog

I liked the same article twice (fixed)

As for what happens, I guess we’ll see

worldofhiglet
July 22nd, 2008 at 11:03 am

Well I’ve still not seen any Dr Horrible article on Digg front page, although my enthusiasm for Digg is waning. Too much absolute rubbish gets Dugg for no reason. Digg does seem to be very broken.

I’ve just submitted a new link that is about Dr Horrible, but I kept any very obvious references to Dr Horrible out of it. It’s a ‘Top 10′ list, which are always popular, so maybe this will do better? We’ll see. If you want to add your Digg, go to

http://digg.com/television/You_WILL_be_using_these_Horrible_expressions_by_Fall

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