How many diggs are enough?
Merely months ago the general idea of the number of diggs a story needed to get to Digg’s front page was between 35-75. Then, we started seeing stories with slightly over 100 diggs who just wouldn’t get to FP. But today, I’ve seen a story that breaks all records: 338 diggs, and still no FP. (update: last time I checked the story was at an insane 642 diggs, and it still didn’t reach Digg’s front page).
The reason for this is probably the high controversy of most political stories such as this one. Digg’s algorithm rewards fast diggs, but a lot of bury votes counteract that, so it ends up in some sort of a stalemate, where neither side can win. I don’t think that there’s anything inherently wrong with this, unless it really gets out of hand and we start seeing stories with 500+ diggs in the upcoming section.
It’s a fun anomaly, though: I’ve seen stories that have been on the front page for a day and they had less diggs than this one.
June 7th, 2007 at 3:02 am
It still hasn’t made front page, at 660 diggs! Plus it got buried.
June 7th, 2007 at 4:52 am
@Ali: well, if it’s buried, then it’s not interesting any more. But, up until 6xx diggs it was still in upcoming.
June 7th, 2007 at 5:17 am
I think LittleGreenFootballs holds the record for most diggs and not hitting the front page while not being buried.
June 7th, 2007 at 8:29 am
obviously more diggers you have, deeper we need dig into
June 7th, 2007 at 8:31 am
I think Digg is loosing its usefulness. It was a lot more useful when there were less people on the site, the more people the more idiots. I love digg but it just isn’t as useful as it once was, this is just one example of that, if 600 people think that a story is cool I want to know what that story is.
June 7th, 2007 at 8:36 am
My main problem with digg is that too many people are using it as a marketing tool.
They take a story that everyone is running with and then have their legion of diggers digg theirs and bury the competition. It is real bad in politics and the new video game categories.