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Now that the election and post-election elation is over, it’s time for Digg to go back to basics. Very basic. Yes, now that McCain/Palin bashing is over and the Obama love-fest is waning, Digg will rapidly return to its primary reason for existence: funny pictures.  As can be seen at any given moment on the “Top in All Topics” widget on their right toolbar, it’s time for lolcats, funny signs, photoshop ingenuity, and paint by numbers to make its triumphant return atop the most Dugg...Read Full Story

A recent reply by Reg “Zaibatsu” Saddler on Social News Central sparked a lot of interest in the social media world.  There were invitations for interviews, mentions of revolts, consoling words, outrage, and the occasional basher all throughout the comments. Digg buried the story. Fast. After a questionable pair of submissions from a questionable site, Zaibatsu was banned.  It seems to be happening a lot lately.  Still, he sent in a request for reinstatement that was polite and...Read Full Story

This was posted by Reg “Zaibatsu” Saddler himself at Social News Central. We don’t post a lot of social media humor on this blog, but that’s classic.Read Full Story

For many, getting a story on the front page of Digg is a nice accomplishment.  Some people submit dozens, even hundreds of stories over the months and years and never make it.  Others find modest success — 15 front page stories puts users in the top 1000 ranks on the site that gets over 20 million unique visitors a month. For a pair of active diggers, the day they hit the top 1000 list is way behind them. (more…)Read Full Story

Digg the Blog » Blog Archive » Digg Education Series: Submitting and Commenting : "Digg Education Series: Submitting and Commenting" Submissions Digg is your submissions! All of the content you see on the site has been submitted by users like you – we want to see what interests you or is important news from your perspective. When submitting a story, you should make sure that your submission isn’t a duplicate. Our dupe detection engine will do the work for you; if you submit something...Read Full Story

Both submitted by NoNipples2099 on 10/03/08 See the frowny face Digg? Ok, so maybe not front page material, but I just wanted to highlight two submissions with a message to Digg staff about the bannings - in a rather comical way. cgt… uhm… NoNipples submitted two photos in response to all the new bannings.  They basically poke fun at his own banning while symbolically protesting the newest string of bannings from Digg. I’m not going to put an image on this post… cause the only...Read Full Story

Digg.com has implemented some pretty profound changes without making a peep (other than a teaser mention in a blog post last year).  They have addressed most of the problems with exact duplicate submissions, once a gaping hole in their promotion style as well as their credibility. The Digg blog mentioned 4 months ago that: “We’re also working on a new system that will, among other things, allow us to track users who abusively submit duplicate content.” Abusive duping is one thing, but...Read Full Story