Comments on: 7 Reasons I Won’t Submit This To Digg

By: Sanimoyo

Sanimoyo — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 16:02:11 +0000

Cool post, i have to say that though I love digg as a realtime bookmark of all the sites I like, whenever i digg something, the best it gets is two diggs only.

By: Ryder Step

Ryder Step — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 17:16:34 +0000

Hehe, my ludicrous comment
“BARRIED!!!!! thiz storie iz crap!!!!!!!!!!!1111111111111″

was dugg down 22 times… That’s more than most of the articles I submit get dug up. Apparently the people of the internet don’t appreciate my sarcasm.

Also 743 diggs…. that’s nuts! (additionally all of the comments you made were dug WAY down… and i don’t think anyone realized that you did not submit it to digg.)

By: Brad

Brad — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 02:32:27 +0000

I’m the 20th comment! Have you had a 20 comment thread before?

By: winandmac.com

winandmac.com — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 02:29:06 +0000

[...] [via The Brain of Shawn] [...]

By: MWT

MWT — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 20:53:09 +0000

Sounds like Digg has become the online version of tabloids.

By: Jason Reznick

Jason Reznick — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 18:22:34 +0000

I used to be a frequent digger, but like a lot of the commenters here, it has been some time since I’ve visited the site. It has been relegated to that section of my RSS feed reader that I virtually never read.

This morning I was more bored than usual and clicked over to the digg feed to find this article, as well as the fact that digg re-discovered Desktop Tower Defense for the 500th time, along with a whole host of other INCREDIBLE and AMAZING things.

My favorite is the science section, which basically claims that we’ve cured both cancer and AIDS at least 100 times each in the last year so.

By: Brad

Brad — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 12:20:08 +0000

The comments for this article over at digg are probably the most coherent ones I have ever seen there.

Now that you have this formula for success you should make a youtube video about how much you dislike youtube.

By: Gary Schubert

Gary Schubert — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 11:48:51 +0000

Poor guy. Your server is already being owned by the Digg Effect – half of pages fail with 503 Service Temporarily Unavailable

I also regret I’ve bought GoDaddy hosting.

Anyway. Nice work on this article. Dugg!

By: Hedhli Ghassan

Hedhli Ghassan — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 11:35:40 +0000

Finally your post is on Digg’s frontpage, i’m glad that i found your blog.
digg traffic is never constant, sometimes i get 2000 visits for a post, but the next day it goes back to the usual 500 uniques

By: bobbknight

bobbknight — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 11:21:07 +0000

Yawn

By: digger

digger — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 11:09:19 +0000

best way to get on dig… write a number list of reasons

By: erichansa

erichansa — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 10:53:37 +0000

Not like one should care that much about digg anyway

By: juan

juan — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 10:47:55 +0000

You are on the digg front page lol

By: Marcel Gagné

Marcel Gagné — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 18:41:25 +0000

Digg? Is that site still aruond? I had heard rumours that Google bought it and shortly after it had gone the way of Orkut and Jaiku, never to be heard from again. [ Oooh, I am bound to get into trouble over that last part. ]
– Marcel (Writer and Free Thinker at Large) Gagné

Oh, Dugg.

By: Shawn Powers

Shawn Powers — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 18:10:00 +0000

Nathan — you made me laugh out loud when I read that. And I was in church. LOL! (seriously, hehehe)

Jeri — You’re absolutely correct, a lot of crap floats to the top in those sites. At work, part of our revenue is from web traffic, so submitting the good content does make sense. It’s the unpredictability that I find so humorous. This anti-digg post, for example, currently has 34 diggs.