Wow, this totally came as a shock… I submitted this 7 days ago and thought it died. There was an incredible response to the article I submitted but I thought the story expired to the land of the forgotten.
Then, I saw the popular stories in my feed reader, and I’m astonished. Here’s the Digg story so you can see it with your own eyes.
I guess the Digg algorithm is getting harder and harder to nail.
Wow. Yeah, I guess we will never know. But I did recall hearing that as long as you were actively participating on digg, that your stories stay in the queue.
Actually, I believe that this is because the story went popular on Reddit. Several people probably tried to submit the story to Digg after that and then dugg the story when they saw it had been submitted.
I would speculate that a large number of attempted submissions + new diggs can revitalize almost any story. The only thing that looks more impressive than getting multiple diggs is getting multiple submissions. It would make sense for Digg to have that built into their algorithm.
Russ, that would be interesting, but after I submitted the story, numerous others tried to do the same and didn’t succeed because there are so many different variations of the NY Times URL.
Check out these two links:
http://digg.com/health/Hungry_101_Easy_Meals_Ready_in_10_Minutes_or_Less
http://digg.com/health/101_simple_meals_ready_in_10_minutes_or_less
I’m not sure how it worked, to be honest. We can only speculate that promotion elsewhere had something to do with it.
Wow. Funny how you and I were just talking about this on Pownce. Russ has a good point. I have tried to ‘dig’ stories from various websites, only to discover that they’ve already been sumitted – sometimes a few days ago. Possibly, this could be the reason. Thanks for the great article.
I was googling this because i was at labs.digg.com and looking at digg history graphs i noted that lots of news gets popular after 24hs or more! Very strange…
It’s very rare to be promoted after 24 hours… but it happens. Seven days is a record, though, I think.
Wow. Yeah, I guess we will never know. But I did recall hearing that as long as you were actively participating on digg, that your stories stay in the queue.
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