Comments on: UPDATE: Digg Deletes AliWood — Editorial “Execution” or Personal Preference?

By: Deep Jive Interests » Digg’s Editors Show Their Invisible Hand (Again)

Tue, 21 Nov 2006 14:56:24 +0000

[...] Consider “Aliwood”, where a few months ago, the Diggnation got ‘tricked’ into voting up a page for reasons other than its intrinsic newsworthiness. A college student basically mentioned that she was getting graded on her ability to post articles and get them “dugg”; as a result, the first few articles she submitted, although stale, got hundreds, and in one case, over 1000 diggs not because they were fresh and interesting — but because of the story around her. What may or may not have helped is that she was also not unattractive. In a demographic composed almost entirely of males, this may have also pumped up the number of diggs. [...]

By: Deep Jive Interests » What Kevin Rose Could Learn from Jason Calacanis (Or, A Look at Why Digg’s PR Shockingly Bad)

Tue, 12 Sep 2006 15:16:53 +0000

[...] Jay Adelson has started posting comments telling people, likewise, to lay off trying to target elite diggers — it wasn’t their fault. Digg will take care of the abuse. And … well, that’s about it. [...]

By: A Brief History of Digg Controversy at diggaddict.com

A Brief History of Digg Controversy at diggaddict.com — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 20:22:36 +0000

[...] Another post about controversy and Digg: After blogging about the “Aliwood” incident, which was received with deafening silence, I looked into whether or not this was the first time anyone had been interested in controversy over at Digg.com. [...]

By: Deep Jive Interests » A Brief History of Digg Controversy

Deep Jive Interests » A Brief History of Digg Controversy — Fri, 25 Aug 2006 06:00:09 +0000

[...] A Brief History of Digg Controversy August 25th, 2006 at 1:58 am by Tony After blogging about the “Aliwood” incident, which was received with deafening silence, I looked into whether or not this was the first time anyone had been interested in controversy over at Digg.com. [...]

By: Deep Jive Interests » A Brief History of Dig Controversies

Deep Jive Interests » A Brief History of Dig Controversies — Fri, 25 Aug 2006 05:47:28 +0000

[...] A Brief History of Dig Controversies August 25th, 2006 at 1:45 am by Tony After blogging about the “Aliwood” incident, which was received with deafening silence, I looked into whether or not this was the first time anyone had been interested in controversy over at Digg.com. [...]

By: anon

anon — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 18:29:16 +0000

http://digg.com/tech_news/Digg_Should_Disclose_if_Moderating_Submissions

and another one bites the dust.

By: Tony

Tony — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 20:13:22 +0000

Yeah, I’ve heard about that as well.

Whether that’s a function of their popularity in and of itself, or the fact they have so many “friends” driving up their posts irrespective of their worth is debatable … but worth trying to investigate.

Thanks for stopping by!