Comments on: A Bullet Proof Way to Cheat Digg? http://roostersrail.wordpress.com/2006/10/19/a-bullet-proof-way-to-cheat-digg/ Welcome to the Coop... Sat, 14 Feb 2009 00:17:11 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: engtech http://roostersrail.wordpress.com/2006/10/19/a-bullet-proof-way-to-cheat-digg/#comment-6556 engtech Sun, 19 Nov 2006 00:28:56 +0000 http://roostersrail.wordpress.com/2006/10/19/a-bullet-proof-way-to-cheat-digg/#comment-6556 @tomo: that is a *really* great rant. :) @tomo: that is a *really* great rant. :)

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]]> By: tomo http://roostersrail.wordpress.com/2006/10/19/a-bullet-proof-way-to-cheat-digg/#comment-4261 tomo Sun, 22 Oct 2006 05:32:09 +0000 http://roostersrail.wordpress.com/2006/10/19/a-bullet-proof-way-to-cheat-digg/#comment-4261 i like digg. i like it alot but since when is conventional wisdom the 'best' way to get news? it seems like most people digg stories they think are interesting, not that they think are newsworthly. what is news anyway? it is different to everyone. i don't care about what the UPS guy thinks about my welcom mat or why some dude thinks apple failed, or what happens with 10,000 coins topple like dominoes and those are three stories on the front page of digg at 10:10 PM PST Friday night. if anyone believes that the news is a function of what we like to read about then it is no wonder that Jerry Springer, Jenny Jones, Oprah and any other content catering to the welfare set is more watched on tv or viewed online or read in a magaizine or newspaper have been on the air for as long as they have. news shmews...figure out what you like and that is your news. some of us live our lives in ignorance and some don't. most of the front page of digg is blogs and blogs are written or recorded by the everyday joe who barely gets by and doesn't have the grasp or scope to analyze why apple is a success (it makes money dude!!! it's called a business and that is what businesses are supposed to do) let alone try to write an informative article(NOT STORY) on relevent issues like why the middle east is so f'd up or why the catholic church can't come clean with what they have been brushing under the carpet for so long. the point is who cares if 30 users are hijacking digg because at the end of the day by considering digg your source of relevant news you are by default subscribing to the theory that conventional wisdom is correct. does anyone reading this think slavery is ok? in the 1700s and 1800s and in some part of the world today that acceptance of slavery was the conventional wisdom of the population. had it not been, your ancestors wouldn't have had slaves. i like digg. i like it alot but since when is conventional wisdom the ‘best’ way to get news? it seems like most people digg stories they think are interesting, not that they think are newsworthly. what is news anyway? it is different to everyone. i don’t care about what the UPS guy thinks about my welcom mat or why some dude thinks apple failed, or what happens with 10,000 coins topple like dominoes and those are three stories on the front page of digg at 10:10 PM PST Friday night. if anyone believes that the news is a function of what we like to read about then it is no wonder that Jerry Springer, Jenny Jones, Oprah and any other content catering to the welfare set is more watched on tv or viewed online or read in a magaizine or newspaper have been on the air for as long as they have. news shmews…figure out what you like and that is your news. some of us live our lives in ignorance and some don’t. most of the front page of digg is blogs and blogs are written or recorded by the everyday joe who barely gets by and doesn’t have the grasp or scope to analyze why apple is a success (it makes money dude!!! it’s called a business and that is what businesses are supposed to do) let alone try to write an informative article(NOT STORY) on relevent issues like why the middle east is so f’d up or why the catholic church can’t come clean with what they have been brushing under the carpet for so long. the point is who cares if 30 users are hijacking digg because at the end of the day by considering digg your source of relevant news you are by default subscribing to the theory that conventional wisdom is correct. does anyone reading this think slavery is ok? in the 1700s and 1800s and in some part of the world today that acceptance of slavery was the conventional wisdom of the population. had it not been, your ancestors wouldn’t have had slaves.

]]> By: engtech http://roostersrail.wordpress.com/2006/10/19/a-bullet-proof-way-to-cheat-digg/#comment-4156 engtech Thu, 19 Oct 2006 17:40:50 +0000 http://roostersrail.wordpress.com/2006/10/19/a-bullet-proof-way-to-cheat-digg/#comment-4156 The sad thing is that a community like this is actually *needed* for Digg to work. There are too many stories submitted to Digg, so unless you're purposely seeding a story with a certain amount of Diggs in the first few hours it dies into oblivion. Even if 80% of the people who have clicked on the link Digg the story, that doesn't mean squat if only 4 people get a chance to see it before it is pushed off of the upcoming page. As it is, the only stories that make it to the front of Digg are the ones that are already a widespread story because a) the site has a large reader base that uses Digg or b) the story has been picked up by a site that has a large reader base that uses Digg. The sad thing is that a community like this is actually *needed* for Digg to work.

There are too many stories submitted to Digg, so unless you’re purposely seeding a story with a certain amount of Diggs in the first few hours it dies into oblivion. Even if 80% of the people who have clicked on the link Digg the story, that doesn’t mean squat if only 4 people get a chance to see it before it is pushed off of the upcoming page.

As it is, the only stories that make it to the front of Digg are the ones that are already a widespread story because a) the site has a large reader base that uses Digg or b) the story has been picked up by a site that has a large reader base that uses Digg.

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