Digg Is Dead
First GameBrink.Com stories were buried at around 20 diggs. Then Gemaga.Com stories started to be buried at around 20 diggs. Well now I know why. Copyblogger has uncovered the autobury list that Digg uses internally to censor sites that are “too popular.” Gemaga and Gamebrink were hitting the front page of Digg almost every day and I guess that was too much for Kevin Roses’ liking.
From Copyblogger:
After a scientifically-sound amount of testing, it’s clear that Copyblogger has been placed on the dreaded Digg auto-bury list. Never heard of that? That’s because Digg refuses to acknowledge that auto-bury exists, but it most certainly does.
Ironically, I was buried by success. In September, my content made the Digg front page six times, with three articles making it in a single week. After that, it became obvious that Kevin Rose and his in-house nerd brigade couldn’t tolerate quality content making the Digg home page that frequently.
Digg has always sucked. People who use it are morons.