Comments on: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Digg Front Page

By: Internet Solutions

Internet Solutions — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 10:40:32 +0000

There’s a new issue about digg regarding power diggers.

By: Emory Rowland

Emory Rowland — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 02:07:51 +0000

That’s good to hear, Brannovate. I was hoping it was an editorial thing and not that my Digg username had some kind of flag on it.

By: Brainnovate

Brainnovate — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 00:49:23 +0000

This happens all the time, and I think it happens most often when moderators remove a story from upcoming because it does not sync up with their editorial guidelines. It possible that it accumulated a large number of buries and was removed, but I do not believe that happened for you.

By: web pixy

web pixy — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 10:33:11 +0000

That’s pretty strange thing to happen. Maybe you really had been visited from the Digg Bury Brigade..

By: Emory Rowland

Emory Rowland — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 03:32:10 +0000

Benny, Thanks for sharing the post. I always enjoy reading your stuff. I took away several goodies from this one including that Check4Change FireFox plugin I hadn’t heard of.

By: Benny Greenberg

Benny Greenberg — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 01:58:16 +0000

I generally do not like to do this… But I believe this may help you and your readers…

http://ya-ttitude.com/blog/2008/10/12/i-walk-through-the-valley-of-the-shadow-of-digg/

Benny

By: Emory Rowland

Emory Rowland — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 03:39:21 +0000

Rob, It’s nice to know I wasn’t the only one watching this. I had read about this happening but to actually see a story disappear before my eyes was quite something, especially when this was turning out to be a great candidate as my first submission to go popular. I thought it was a great story and I look forward to reading more like it from your site!

By: sani moyo

sani moyo — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 02:56:54 +0000

it probably triggered some internal filters

By: Rob Diana

Rob Diana — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 12:00:57 +0000

Emory

I was watching the story rise as well. I rarely get submissions to digg, so when I saw the number of votes I got interested. When it disappeared I had no clue what happened. I thought maybe the story ran out of time, but I thought it had at least 4 hours remaining.

I have no idea why it would be buried like that either. It actually was fairly unbiased and some general speculation.

Thanks for submitting it.