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Digg, Dug, Buried: How Linux news disappears (ComputerWorld)Digg, Dug, Buried: How Linux news disappears (ComputerWorld)Posted Jun 25, 2009 20:31 UTC (Thu) by roskegg (subscriber, #105)Parent article: Digg, Dug, Buried: How Linux news disappears (ComputerWorld)
Yes, I've seen this on various sites. Or if a story gets on the front page, a bunch of "junk" stories that normally wouldn't make the cut will suddenly get to the front page until the story is "bumped" from the front page, even though not "buried". Burying through spam.
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Conspiracies Posted Jun 25, 2009 21:53 UTC (Thu) by ncm (subscriber, #165) [Link]
Remember: "It's not a conspiracy unless it's against the law." Although applicable here, the aphorism is most useful as a defense against being a fan of conspiracy theories.
Overlap Posted Jun 25, 2009 22:20 UTC (Thu) by dmarti (subscriber, #11625) [Link] So Digg users don't overlap much with Linux fanboys. Alexa toolbar users and Slashdot readers don't overlap much either. And Ted Nugent stories probably don't do too well on the vegan sites. Welcome to the fragmented echo chamber media of the future.
Digg, Dug, Buried: How Linux news disappears (ComputerWorld) Posted Jun 25, 2009 22:12 UTC (Thu) by alankila (subscriber, #47141) [Link]
If you care enough about this, it should be provable. Here's how: just draft the rate that new stories appear. Look for anomalies such as spikes, and then examine if they correlate with appearance of pro-Linux stories, or whatever.
My prediction is that you will see nothing out of ordinary. I find it hard to believe in this conspiracy that you speak of, but a little bit of detective work in form of hard data could change my mind.
Digg, Dug, Buried: How Linux news disappears (ComputerWorld) Posted Jun 26, 2009 8:55 UTC (Fri) by michaeljt (subscriber, #39183) [Link]
If you can find hard data, you might also be able to get the attention of the people running Digg. (If they care about this at all, as it doesn't seem to hurt their popularity).
Digg, Dug, Buried: How Linux news disappears (ComputerWorld) Posted Jun 29, 2009 18:06 UTC (Mon) by BrucePerens (subscriber, #2510) [Link] I can give you one data point. When I worked for Sourcelabs, we had messages to the staff email alias asking for diggs, when there was a story about the company. The emails were probably innocent in nature, but IMO companies should not do that. IMO they all do.It is a standard feature these days that PR agencies help you with social networking. It's probably the majority of their business for many of them. That means digg, wikipedia, slashdot, etc.
Digg, Dug, Buried: How Linux news disappears (ComputerWorld) Posted Jun 29, 2009 17:47 UTC (Mon) by BrucePerens (subscriber, #2510) [Link] This is a perfectly legal although ethically shady business function offered by public relations agencies. They have people in India, etc., and robots, that vote on sites like Digg. They do it on Slashdot too. And wikipedia.We need to do it too. Unfortunately.
Digg, Dug, Buried: How Linux news disappears (ComputerWorld) Posted Jun 29, 2009 18:14 UTC (Mon) by hppnq (subscriber, #14462) [Link] We need to do it too. Unfortunately. +1 hilarious
Digg, Dug, Buried: How Linux news disappears (ComputerWorld) Posted Jun 29, 2009 20:43 UTC (Mon) by BrucePerens (subscriber, #2510) [Link] Thank you for your content-free posting. How about suggesting another approach, then? And before you say it's not happening, read this.
Digg, Dug, Buried: How Linux news disappears (ComputerWorld) Posted Jun 29, 2009 21:20 UTC (Mon) by jordanb (subscriber, #45668) [Link]
I think the point is that the "battle of Digg" is probably one not worth fighting.
Digg, Dug, Buried: How Linux news disappears (ComputerWorld) Posted Jun 29, 2009 22:19 UTC (Mon) by BrucePerens (subscriber, #2510) [Link] Not alone. But combine it with other social media, and you get the death of a thousand cuts.
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