Comments on: Digg’s Bury Brigade: Fact or Fiction?

By: glenjammin

glenjammin — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 02:31:33 +0000

Hi. I am number one on the ‘Top 50’ buriers on digg. One morning, I started burying all Sony PS3 and Wii related articles because I was absolutely sick of hearing the fanboyism. Simply put: the fact that the Wii is selling better than the PS3, or that it has a new game on their Virtual Console is not front page news. The ‘Bury Brigade’ does not exist because we do not bury the same stories in coordination. In order for a true Bury Brigade to exist, the same stories must be buried in unison within a short amount of time to avoid the popularity that comes with being on the front page. All of the buries on the list are isolated except for the ones we found to be ‘universally lame’. Also, the list of 1700 buries is only of a 2 hour window, which is not representative of the overall digg story submission process. Each one of these stories could still reach the front page. However, I have resolved to stop burying stories without merit immediately. Thanks for your time.
glenjammin

By: baron

baron — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 04:44:27 +0000

HMTKSteve,
Yeah, that would be the tickent. Don’t like liberals? You get your very own conservative version. How can 1 million people agree on anything.

Jeremiah
lol That is a crazy picture. LGF has stories in the hundreds of diggs and yet they’re all buried.

I guess these political types are even more passionate than your typical Digger.

Ajay
Well, it seems to have done good on Reddit. The amazing thing is that it made it to the front page. That’s quite rare.

By: Ajay

Ajay — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 03:56:29 +0000

Yet another story that I wrote didn’t make it to the front page inspite of over 330 diggs.

The story is at http://techtites.com/2007/02/17/why-the-digg-mafia-will-cost-kevin-rose-millions/

Actually, this was a rare case, because the story got buried within 15 minutes and then notched up the diggs!

By: Jeremiah

Jeremiah — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 03:52:30 +0000

I’ve seen the same activity on other political websites. Check out my blog post “Second Thoughts – Bury Brigade”. I watch someone or some people burying Thinkprogress.org stories like it was cool.

By: HMTKSteve

HMTKSteve — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 20:42:44 +0000

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again:

“If a user marks a site as spam more then a few times have that site no longer appear to that digger when they view Digg.”

If a contrary viewpoint is so threatening then let that member hide from it. Don’t make the rest of us suffer because you can’t handle that someone else might like an [Apple/MS/Linux] product more than they like your favorite [Apple/MS/Linux] product!