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Digg Offers to Pay for Counselling for Traumatized Top Diggers

Look ma, maybe I've been unemployed for 35 months straight but I've learned how to game the Digg system like nobody's bidness!

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According to ValleyWag:

Yesterday, Digg went down for an hour in the middle of the day. Initially we thought it was an unplanned outage, but it turns out that a number of changes were made to the algorithm that controls which stories are "promoted" to the front page. The changes have started a mini-revolt among the top submitters reminiscent of the community uprising over Digg's deletion of HD-DVD unlock codes last year. We talked to several top diggers to find out what changed, why they're upset, and we have our own theory for why the changes were made.

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It seems a fairly transparent strategy to clean house of the submitters who have been dominating the front page for a while now. Essentially [they] adjusted the diversity factor to skew against popular submitters. Digg-critical stories are frequently buried before they ever reach the front page.

New Digg algorithm angers the social masses

Finally!

Rumour has it that Digg will donate to pay for trauma counseling for these people.

More on the Horrors of Digging before the new algorithm.

 

Top Social Bookmarking Sites: The Horrors of Digging

Top Social Bookmarking  Sites: Digg vs Reddit vs Stumbleupon

Before I give you the official rankings for the top social bookmarking sites, let me just say that Digg is the worst place on the Internet.

If you weren't a member of the cool clique back in high school and wish to relive the rejection horrors of those years, just start Digging. More then likely it will be an even worse experience the second time around.

I joined Digg a few months ago and naively assumed that my fellow Diggsters valued serious news.

Boy was I ever wrong!

The place is worse than Wikipedia.

There have been at least a dozen times when I was the first to submit some important breaking news along the lines of “Iran Sinks Carrier USS Ronald Reagan” (but factual news) and not a second dugg was ever to be seen. Yet members of the Digg in-crowd can post the most lame stories (e.g., Buzzer the Fattest Dog in Rapid City Tips the Scales at 124 lbs!) and within minutes 1500 others have dugg the submission.

I'm afraid that I will never get that place.

If you're into business oriented news, here is the list of top social bookmarking sites.

6. Technorati

5. Stumbleupon

4. Digg

3. Ycombinator

2. Dailyhub

1. Reddit

I find that you can quickly get the valuable news from the top three sites. What I like about them is that they leave the high school style politics out of the selection process.  There's actually no need to bother with the others.