Comments on: Digg Auto-Bury or Ego Out of Control? http://www.thatedeguy.com/archives/2007/12/digg-auto-bury-or-ego-out-of-control My commentary on Tech News, Starting a business, Ebay, and Everyday Life Tue, 02 Dec 2008 19:54:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: David Eaves http://www.thatedeguy.com/archives/2007/12/digg-auto-bury-or-ego-out-of-control#comment-109776 David Eaves Sun, 23 Dec 2007 19:35:20 +0000 http://www.thatedeguy.com/archives/2007/12/digg-auto-bury-or-ego-out-of-control#comment-109776 Dude, you are wrong, auto-bury exists. No maybe about it, here is a site that has been placed on it: http://www.seroundtable.com Digg are getting slightly better at hiding it but the evidence is still there, here is a link to the search feature on digg that shows, the recent submissions from the site (buried stories are not included): http://digg.com/search?s=seroundtable.com&submit=Search&section=all&type=all&area=all&sort=new You have a few recent stories with not that many diggs that have not been buried, here is a link to the search result on digg that includes buried stories: http://digg.com/search?s=seroundtable.com&submit=Search&section=all&search-buried=1&type=all&area=all&sort=new Click on the 2nd page of the results to get a better picture, they used to just bury any story from a site on auto bury after about 48 hours, no matter how many diggs it had, which made it very easy to detect, but now they will only bury the story if it starts to get popular in one of the categories (so that they can get away with dictating which sites they allow to go popular without getting flack - They can just say that the site was buried by the users). Prior to the site getting put on auto-bury roughly 200 days ago, it was on the homepage on a regular basis. If the digg staff do not like your website, then they will put it on auto bury, they seem to like science, gadget, and some tech sites, and they will not mess with any major newspapers because they know they would have some rep. management problems which could effect their company value. Copyblogger is a marketing related site, I have no doubt that it will have been put on auto-bury. Dude, you are wrong, auto-bury exists. No maybe about it, here is a site that has been placed on it:

http://www.seroundtable.com

Digg are getting slightly better at hiding it but the evidence is still there, here is a link to the search feature on digg that shows, the recent submissions from the site (buried stories are not included):

http://digg.com/search?s=seroundtable.com&submit=Search&section=all&type=all&area=all&sort=new

You have a few recent stories with not that many diggs that have not been buried, here is a link to the search result on digg that includes buried stories:

http://digg.com/search?s=seroundtable.com&submit=Search&section=all&search-buried=1&type=all&area=all&sort=new

Click on the 2nd page of the results to get a better picture, they used to just bury any story from a site on auto bury after about 48 hours, no matter how many diggs it had, which made it very easy to detect, but now they will only bury the story if it starts to get popular in one of the categories (so that they can get away with dictating which sites they allow to go popular without getting flack - They can just say that the site was buried by the users).

Prior to the site getting put on auto-bury roughly 200 days ago, it was on the homepage on a regular basis.

If the digg staff do not like your website, then they will put it on auto bury, they seem to like science, gadget, and some tech sites, and they will not mess with any major newspapers because they know they would have some rep. management problems which could effect their company value.

Copyblogger is a marketing related site, I have no doubt that it will have been put on auto-bury.

]]> By: Bedroom Furniture Set http://www.thatedeguy.com/archives/2007/12/digg-auto-bury-or-ego-out-of-control#comment-109199 Bedroom Furniture Set Sat, 22 Dec 2007 03:37:00 +0000 http://www.thatedeguy.com/archives/2007/12/digg-auto-bury-or-ego-out-of-control#comment-109199 Gosh! An auto bury list, i had no idea that something like this existed but i suppose it would be necessary to weed out rubbish from good content. Gosh! An auto bury list, i had no idea that something like this existed but i suppose it would be necessary to weed out rubbish from good content.

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