Do Autoburies Exist on Digg.com?
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I have seen mainstream sites, such as nytimes.com, aol news, latimes.com, make the front page of digg with 100, 80, 59 diggs. The algo appears to be biased towards mainstream sites. I have made 152 pages popular by mostly submitting mainstream sites - http://digg.com/users/numberneal/history/submissions - without any effort; I barely shout if ever, and I hardly pass links around on im.
I have seen sites with great content and api tools get buried when digg realizes the webmaster is a digg user, even after amassing more diggs than a landscaper - hundreds of diggs, literally. Some sites will not make the front page no matter how many diggs they generate. Even if they reach what would be typically deemed as a front page threshold - e.g. 300, 400, 1000 diggs.
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I have to agree with you - I have also seen sites move quickly up the ladder and just disappear…
I hate doing this - but we used to be friends on digg before I got banned - so this might shed a little light on the topic:
http://ya-ttitude.com/blog/2008/10/12/i-walk-through-the-valley-of-the-shadow-of-digg/
Benny
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It exists. Working on proving it.
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