What happens on Digg when a buried story keeps getting votes?
In other words, when a story is buried, does it stay that way forever? Yesterday as some of you would know DreamHost unveiled their new control panel, and made a post in their blog. I also posted about this before seeing their post, and did my normal bookmarking routine of StumbleUpon, del.icio.us, and Digg if the story is some sort of article or news. So of course I submitted this to Digg, and saw theirs in the *duplicate story* check point, but let it go through anyways, as I figured it would get no votes and fade away.
But.
DreamHost’s official post made it to the front page and was quickly buried by the ‘bury brigade’ or whatever. Enter today, I’m just looking through my home page to see if I’m only putting three posts per page, and I noticed i had 40ish diggs on my DreamHost article. Of course, I was totally dumbfounded. The most Diggs I’ve ever gotten was like 15, on this article, and that had a lot of traffic. My initial reaction was, “Shit, it’s going to go to the front page”, until I read the comments, and realized it would be buried, if it wasn’t already. But where were these diggs coming from?
Turns out when DH realized their story was buried, they changed the link to the digg story in their post to mine, so all their traffic was digging my story. Unfortunately there was virtually no extra traffic from this, but it’s almost at 80 diggs now.
Here’s what I’m thinking: This story was buried around 45 diggs, and it’s close to double that now. If the DH readers keep digging away at this, over time if it gets to 100, 150, 200, will it’s buried status be lifted? Does Digg’s algorithm that supposedly works so great change the story from buried to live, realizing the bury brigade (or the idiots that found it not coming from the DH blog) were all wrong?
This could be a test of the Digg algorithm and prove how powerful or lacking it really is. I guess it’s in their hands now.
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