Digg Autobury, Is TechCrunch on The List Now?
Posted on January 18, 2008
Filed Under Blog traffic, Rambling
I doubt it especially since the last front page article that Techcrunch had was submitted by none other than Kevin Rose himself 11 days ago. By the way I’m not sure if anyone notices this, but Kevin has a 100% made popular rating out of the 329 Digg stories he’s submitted.
But I think Digg needs to err on the side of transparency here. When a moderator gives a story an assist, or holds it back, users deserve to know what’s happened, and why. Otherwise, conspiracy theories about “super users” will continue to circulate.
Quoting ValleyWag here about Digg superusers. Granted the top diggers do have a fairly high percentage of getting to the front page on Digg, but to have someone hit the front page with 100% seems a little suspicious even though he is the one in charge if Digg. I’m sure only needing 24, 56, or 88 Diggs for front page is normal for other users too. Superusers do exist at Digg, and if we look hard enough we may find others.
So why the topic title? A post from TechCrunch the other day caught my eye. With all the recent posts about some big bloggers like copyblogger now on the autobury list, I thought it would be amusing if Kevin’s friend Michael Arrington’s site got on the list too. After reading some things about the Digg algorithm changes, and also reading about the TechCrunch post being buried after only 1 bury I thought it might have been a possibility that the site may have been added to the autobury list.
That is until I saw the Kevin Rose submission for a TechCrunch post. The post probably got buried for spam since it contained the words Ron Paul. Which is also why this post will probably never get on Digg’s front page either. Come to think of it, I don’t think I’ve have anything from this domain submitted to Digg yet.
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I almost signed up for an account on Digg after reading success stories from John Chow and Guy Kawasaki– then I found horror stories of people getting banned just for having a good article that was on the front page. I changed my mind about Digg altogether.
I don’t think I’ll get an Digg account until they change their politics. Stuff like this has happened to me in the past on other websites, making me lose trust in the site, and never to return. I don’t mind if anyone submits a post on my blog to Digg–provided it doesn’t get auto-buried. :/
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