Comments on: Wired News Buys Votes on Digg to Proove a Point

By: Ryan

Ryan — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 23:13:50 +0000

We are currently in communication with Digg support to figure out why we are banned. They responded saying that the site had been unbanned, but it shows up saying that that the “URL is blocked”. Also, instead of just being banned for tech.cybernetnews.com we are actually banned for all of our subdomains as well.

By: Ajay

Ajay — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 16:50:03 +0000

Has this site been unblocked by digg or are you still banned?

By: Ryan

Ryan — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 15:33:05 +0000

I have indeed heard about that Spotplex, and it does look interesting. It should be pretty easy for Spotplex to realize what articles are actually popular by looking at the traffic of a normal article on a site and compare it with one they think is popular. If the traffic is, for example, double what a normal article is then maybe that would be considered popular. Of course the ratio will need to be adjusted based upon the specific site, but that is how I would develop the algorithm.

By: Everton

Everton — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 12:08:35 +0000

What Digg really needs to do is improve it’s quality. For a site to have thousands of submissions a day and only have a few interesting posts a day is an awful return.

All Digg is proving is that an edited site like this one can produce a better quality site - it’s whole model just isn’t working anymore.

Have you come across Spotplex.com yet? Slightly different take, but I’m not sure how it will share traffic equally or how articles from small sites will hit the homepage.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 02:04:58 +0000

Now this leaves me wondering how many of these “paid” stories have actually made it to the front page. That would help explain a lot.

By: Ashley

Ashley — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 01:33:20 +0000

I’m with you on that one. I think it’s gone downhill over the last several months unfortunately…

By: CoryC

CoryC — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 00:34:25 +0000

I hate Digg. There are so many pointless stories it sad.

When ever I visited Digg there seemed to be a lot of stories about…Digg! It was like the community was pulling it’s own chain.

By: Deep Jive Interests » Did Wired Game Digg? I Don’t Think So

Deep Jive Interests » Did Wired Game Digg? I Don’t Think So — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 00:12:18 +0000

[...] with accompanying pictures dugg to the frontpage. There’s the usual commentary from Digg watchers, including an interesting charge by Mike Arrington that Wired is playing to some strong conflict of [...]