How to Buy Votes and Get On Digg’s Frontpage
March 2, 2007 by Gaman
Here’s some interesting story from a Wired reporter doing some investigative journalism.
The reporter created a boring and poorly written blog dedicated to showing picture of crowds and managed to get to the digg’s frontpage.
She paid User/Submitter to digg her blog and the natural organic digg followed suit.
It’s an interesting story worth reading.
You know what’s funny? Wired News is owned by CondéNet, which also owns Digg competitor, reddit.
I was laughing my head off when I read this. But that’s Wisdom of Crowds for you. Good ol horde mentality.
Yes that’s mentioned in the article. Apparently, the wisdom of the crowds is not perfect, sometimes it just follows what others are doing.
Sometimes is a bit of an understatement. As the article shows most people on there digg without reading the article. Seems a little pointless to me.
Not only that: In his latest article Michael Arrington of TechCrunch writes how Wired has been trying to bury digg for quite sometime now.
Allen.H
being human, always follows others. end up same like others.
The digg crowd does tend to act like sheep. And even with all the changes they’ve implemented its still a small group of influential users that control the content on the front page.