Comments on: A Tribute to the Unsung Heroes of Digg (Bury Brigade Top 50)

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By: Mariod505

Mariod505 — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 16:30:52 +0000

I’m also on the above list, and I have to say I’m a little offended. If you’re going to publish my profile name and accuse me of something, at least let me know. Send me an email, pm, or something, don’t just go publishing my account name for me to only find accidentally three years later. You realize that people can probably find personal info on me by googling my username and so you’re just setting me up for god knows what.

Luckily I think most of your readers see this “analysis” as totally flawed. Like some of the other commenters, I’m just a normal guy burying stories I think are inaccurate or misleading – exactly as you are supposed to on Digg, and have no idea who the others in “the brigade” are.

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By: The Puzzling Sanjaya Malakar Phenomenon at Baron VC

The Puzzling Sanjaya Malakar Phenomenon at Baron VC — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 12:16:37 +0000

[...] The Puzzling Sanjaya Malakar Phenomenon 11Apr07 Powered by Gregarious (21)The Sanjaya Malakar wave sweeping the nation is puzzling indeed. There’s a lot of debate as to whether there is some kind of nefarious conspiracy to vote Sanjaya to the top and kill American Idol in the process. The debate is similar the one of whether Digg has a bury brigade. [...]

By: baron

baron — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 10:46:26 +0000

Well, I agree with how some people feel about it. I think it’s always a matter of micro versus macro where individuals do something they feel is right but it has different consequences when taken as an aggregate.

Sorry your name happened to come up on the list.

By: bluesbyrd

bluesbyrd — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 07:37:36 +0000

I show up as a frequent burier, but I am certainly not trying to game the system.

I bury people who submit post after post to 1 and only 1 site, almost always their own blog. It is easy to verify by looking at their profile and seeing that they only submit or digg articles on 1 and only 1 site. I consider this spam and bury accordingly. This is especially annoying when 1 user submits 10-20 posts to their own site in a matter of as many minutes – I think you’ll agree that this happens quite often, and I don’t think there’s any other name for it but spam. Burying is an important function, it is not always “censorship” of views one disagrees with. There’s inhibition as well as excitation among neurons. Sure it can be abused, but burying on digg is probably mostly legitimate.

By: baron

baron — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 01:05:31 +0000

Thank you all for commenting. As some of you have noted, the data is not only from a limited time window but noted for its inaccuracy by the person who collected it. Having said that I merely ran a script on the raw data to reformat it. It’s not for any conclusive evidence but more for a discussion which didn’t happen. I suppose the subject of burying will continue to be a hot topic for some time to come.

What I will say is that this whole debate is a product of the percieved decline in the quality of interactions on Digg. At least that’s my take. I appreciate the comments though it was quite a heated and interesting read.

By: Roger

Roger — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 19:54:14 +0000

The Digg Mafia is very powerful and I think it includes insiders. Nice work Baron. The bury brigade was very obvious during my last stint 2 weekends ago. Mass burial and subtle censorship was rampant on this post too:

http://digg.com/technews/WhyTheDiggMafiaWillCostKevinRoseMillions

May not be obvious what was happening from comments in now. But it was at the time because of the immediacy of comment burials. Wsa buried almost as soon as it became ‘popular’ – about 20. The hope was that it would peter out. Still kept on getting dugg, so the army continued burying (post commenters). Had it been left to its own devices, it would have made front page. Still gets the odd dugg, mainly thru blog reports. Commenters started getting banned – a way of hiding the story from friends views. Is that why none of usual crowd added any comments?

Normally on Digg, you sometimes get genuine buriers adding a comment explaining they are burying and why. See what’s missing in the comments? All comments are UP now, although at the time, each was being systematically buried on arrival. Within a couple of hours of posting ‘True Loyalty and Digg Death’, they banned me! Smart way of not having to keep the army working (and risk being found out).

Probably just as well. Where I’ve gone to is infinitely more refined.