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Digg admits they manually Bury Stories

June 26, 2008

We were leaked a response from Digg regarding an editor that had his story go popular .. for 6 seconds.

Excerpt from the Editor’s e-mail to Digg:

My popular count in my profile increased by 1.

I do not believe the story was buried.

Digg’s Response:

Thanks for taking the time to contact us at Digg.com.

The Digg.com Team did in fact bury the story do to website redundancy.

We want to stress that the article in question was not ‘redundant’ the source was. Meaning that the same news outlet just happened to publish two breaking news stories…

We have heard of Digg manually burying stories.. such as the HD-DVD fiasco… but this… because the same news outlet published two breaking news stories… IE: the reporters at the outlet did their job and broke two news stories got buried…

Digg in the past has banned sites such as SqlSpace.Com for publishing a screen shot of Ubuntu being on Windows Market Place. That was censorship.. this is flatly stating that Digg users are too ‘stupid’ to make their own decisions on what is a good story.. and what isn’t.

If Digg had any morals, they would let this go popular since Digg is a community driven site that should respect the wishes of their community.

If the Digg users feel the story is worthless, then please allow them to bury it.. not some individual at Digg that feels that their users are not intelligent enough to make their own decisions on what story is good.. and what isn’t.

It’s an insult to all of us.

Written by TheFounder · Filed Under Advertising Agency News 


Comments

  • http://www.mobile-answers.uni.cc/ Kelly

    hmm interesting I saw my own popular count go up by 3 this month, but I don’t think I actually frontpaged anything this month. So either they buried 3 of my stories or somethings messed up.

  • http://www.mobile-answers.uni.cc Kelly

    hmm interesting I saw my own popular count go up by 3 this month, but I don’t think I actually frontpaged anything this month. So either they buried 3 of my stories or somethings messed up.

  • http://digg.com/users/NaomiRobson Naomi

    It’s quite obvious that a number of the bury brigade trolls on digg.com are ignored by “the Digg Team” and are basically allowed to do as they please.

    In fact I think the bury brigade ARE the Digg Team.

  • http://digg.com/users/NaomiRobson Naomi

    It’s quite obvious that a number of the bury brigade trolls on digg.com are ignored by “the Digg Team” and are basically allowed to do as they please.

    In fact I think the bury brigade ARE the Digg Team.

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