Are you a digger?
I'm just poking around there for the first time, looking for friends. Anyone who hangs out here also hang out there? Any tips? I'm partially curious because I'm looking to promote TPM content, but also for my own uses...
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I'm a 'casual' digger. I've never registered for an account, but will surf over there for maybe an hour or two on a once-a-week basis.
December 29, 2008 2:20 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hi Andrew,
I digg, not very regularly, but I do. It is pretty cool to see what others find interesting on the web. Helpful hint - search for the most diggs by the week or longer instead of just the day...there is a lot of junk that gets to the top if you only look at the top in 24 hrs.
December 29, 2008 5:47 PM | Reply | Permalink
I digg.
Naturally.
December 29, 2008 7:36 PM | Reply | Permalink
Digging is fun and I do not play on other similar sites because I do not understand them. I started Digging. First thing three months ago.
It was my first chance to comment and I was bad at it. Not that I am good at it now. Finding a story in the back of the NYT or the front of the MPLS Trib and being the first Digg is fun.
I plan to go back and do more. But I have chosen this place or it has chosen me. You can read all over the web and post something here and it does not disappear in an hour or fifteen minutes.
I am a newbie and they tell me it was not always so.
But there are some good hard arguments here and I have a lot of entertainment. I am a leftie but it depends on the issue.
At any rate read some of our stuff. Some long and researched, some just long like me, and some short and well thought out.
December 29, 2008 7:58 PM | Reply | Permalink
No. I live in an apartment building and still looking for a place to put in a garden so I can do a little digging.
December 29, 2008 8:41 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yes, and I live in a condo, but I find that I can do "square foot gardening" very well on my deck in a planter box. Dig that?
December 30, 2008 12:34 AM | Reply | Permalink
I digg, but I find the extra click through a bit annoying. I find the log-in and confirmation process tedious enough that I rarely add something to digg unless it seems worth the effort. I also do not bother to use the extra social media type features, so I may not be a good example.
I like Google Reader and how I can share stories directly to my reader feed without the extra steps required by Digg. It also seems personal since the people who share things with me are those connected directly to email contact (I realize this limits the reach, but I do not have enough time to waste on a global group of friends)
Did it turn out that people were controlling the results of digg by gaming the system?
December 29, 2008 11:12 PM | Reply | Permalink
It looks pretty shady. Someone has actually dugg the potential rigging by screenshot here. Maybe someone doesn't like Yahoo Answers :)
December 30, 2008 1:13 AM | Reply | Permalink
There's a complex system where diggers have different ranks, determined by their history. That's one way that they try to weed out spammers. If a story gets dugg by enough people with a high enough rank, it goes to the front page, and then it gets major views and more diggs. Otherwise, it soon fades into oblivion. We've tried to get some digglove at dagblog but haven't had much success with it.
December 30, 2008 10:47 AM | Reply | Permalink