Digg Dugg Doh!
Late last night our popular article on the 10 things the US could have purchased with the Iraq war fund was promoted to the wildly popular social news website Digg.com. The article was an instant success, and before I had gone to bed the article was ranking as the #1 most popular upcoming story. This means that our article had the most potential out of any Digg submission to reaching the front page and receiving thousands of visitors. When I had awoken the next morning, the article had grown even more and was still the #1 most popular upcoming story.
A few hours later that day, instead of seeing our article on the homepage and having our server flooded with visitors, our article had disappeared from the upcoming sections. There was no explanation, notice, or comment stating why our article had seized to exist. The most popular story that would have been incredibly popular for Digg readers had gone from #1 to #100000000000000000. The only conclusion that we can come to is that it was attacked by what is known as the “Bury Brigade,” a group of Digg users who randomly bury stories in the masses resulting in popular stories never hitting the light of day.
While the Digg article did send us our #2 record traffic day, it was upsetting knowing that an excellent article of ours was removed because of a bunch of immature Digg.com trolls…
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