Digg Trending: Does This Belong on the Homepage?
On October 28th, TechCrunch released a screenshot of the new Digg Trend feature they had acquired.
Digg Trending ‘identifies and highlights upcoming stories that have a high volume of activity (think Diggs, comments, favorites, shares, etc.). When we detect a new trending story, it will appear on the homepage for ten minutes. Based on the Digg and bury activity in those ten minutes the story will either become popular or not.’
Today they ran the first live test of the system on the Digg homepage, asking Digg users to help decide if the suggested story should be on the homepage or not?
Digg to Diggers: You’re a Cowboy No More!
Digg used to be wild and a place of rough and tough diggers, ready to digg all night and day at the expense of the poor local folk.
All that changed when they brought in ol’ Wyatt the Digg Watcher, who would quickly warn you if you were trying to digg too many stories in a 24 hour period.
Well apparently the time of the Digg cowboys is no more, as Digg has let ol’ Wyatt and his 200 diggs within 24 hours restriction retire.
Now Diggers can vote on as many stories as they like, but be warned… some users who have gone back to their wild and reckless digging ways have found their accounts banned.
So I would recommend you keep it below 200 per day to stay safe.
Update #1:
Jen Burton, who works at Digg, just commented the following: “Hey all – Hate to burst any bubbles, but there are still rate limits on Digging in place on the site; we just made a few changes. There is a new limit in place – sorry I’m not able to state it here. Also, note that we may continue to tweak the limits depending on need.”
Digg Adds No-Follow to Combat Spam
Digg made a change to their site today, adding the no-follow attribute to all external links until they felt sure the link was safe.
They also issued a statement about the change on their blog and even went as far as to speak directly to SEOs, saying they would indeed lose some of the authority they may have been getting from Digg in the past.
“These changes reduce the incentive to post spammy content (or link spam) to Digg, while still flowing ’search engine juice’ freely to quality content. We’ve added rel=”nofollow” to any external link that we’re not sure we can vouch for. This includes all external links from comments, user profiles and story pages below a certain threshold of popularity.”
Read more
You’ve Got a Popular Story on Digg
“Congrats! A story you submitted to Digg has become popular! It currently has 66 Diggs and 0 comments.”
You may have seen this message in your inbox if you selected to be notified when one of your submission becomes popular.
An option that has long been visible in your account preferences, it had never actually worked until just this last week.
So if you want to be notified of your submissions success, then make sure to turn the option on in your preferences.
-
Feeling Anti-Social?
Get a dose of Social Media in your inbox... Free of Charge!
-
Popular Posts
-
Recently Written
-
Categories
Follow Me On
-
About Brent Csutoras
As Seen In
See Brent Speak:
