It appears that there are some criticisms of Digg.com's methodology for story promotion, such that two stories, "dugg" by the same person, have nearly identical user "duggs". Via Forevergeek:
What really caught my eye with the situation was the sequence of diggs. On the bottom it notes who has dugg an article, and it lists them in order. Confounding as it was, the two beforementioned stories had the same sixteenpeople digg the story in a row. So the 7th digger of one article (Insomn1a) was the 7th digger of the other article. In fact, removing bribera's digg of one article showed that the first nineteen diggs of each article were identical. What made this really interestingKevin Rose, aka celebrated creator and founder of Digg. I've read that Digg gets anywhere from 500,000 to 800,000 readers a day. 16 (or 19) identical diggs for two articles by the same author? 22 of the first 24 diggers being being the same for both articles? Somehow I don't think that is a coincidence. was that the 17th digger was none other than
Not wanting to make the assumption that their criticisms are correct, especially since I like Kevin Rose, and I like digg - I have to wonder if this will erode digg's credibility, and if so, how will it manifest itself? Oh, and this doesn't help any:
So we posted this, and some people found it interesting. Over at the fellow geeky Binary Bonsai, reader Andreas Climent noted that submitting any url from ForeverGeek was now impossible to Digg. We got banned from Digg.
In a social networking setting, transparency is key…the fact that this highly dugg story doesn't show up on the first couple pages does little to establishing their credibility. More at SplashHo and Boingboing. No digg.
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1 Derek Powazek // Apr 21, 2006 at 11:00 am
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