Comments on: Techmeme Rocks My Socks! (“pleasegetintotechmeme, pleasegetintotechmeme, pleasegetintotechmeme”)

By: engtech

engtech — Fri, 17 Nov 2006 02:11:02 +0000

Yeah, but that’s probably because it matches criteria on another part of the algorithm.

The first time I was on there was because of Digg + a few A listers linking.

By: Tony

Tony — Fri, 17 Nov 2006 02:00:05 +0000

So, hold on Gabe — if Digg links to a news item it is neither insufficient or necessary enough for that news item to be pumped onto Techmeme?

Because there have been times I’ve seen news items with only “Digg” as the “discussion item”.

By: engtech

engtech — Fri, 17 Nov 2006 01:47:56 +0000

Complete agreement with the “it doesn’t send a lot of traffic”, but “it gets you a lot of links”. Great site.

By: Gabe

Gabe — Fri, 17 Nov 2006 00:18:59 +0000

Funny. I’d add though that alot of people mistake posts without “Discussion” as posts that lack inbound links or other signals that would factor in the decision to post, i.e., the result of a override (“Defcon”) button. Yet if a very short post or bookmarking site links to news, my system will often omit linking back to it, because those links rarely interest the reader.