Comments on: Digg Story Gets Promoted 7 Days After Submission

By: Insight into the Digg Algo, Take 2 « Paul McDevitt’s Blog

Insight into the Digg Algo, Take 2 « Paul McDevitt’s Blog — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 05:43:37 +0000

[...] a few days. However, others have seen stories go popular a few days later than the initial day;? 7 days later in at least one case – although cases like this are extremely rare. I wouldn’t expect Kevin [...]

By: dy

dy — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 02:18:58 +0000

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. live.bbs.mn

By: Tamar Weinberg

Tamar Weinberg — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 01:33:23 +0000

It’s very rare to be promoted after 24 hours… but it happens. Seven days is a record, though, I think.

By: Germ�n W.

Germ�n W. — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 01:29:56 +0000

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…

By: Digg Algorithm is getting complex.

Digg Algorithm is getting complex. — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 11:17:53 +0000

[...] page with in 24 hrs of its submission, it dies its natural death. But Tamar Weinberg of Techipedia reported that a story submitted by her 7 days ago is made popular today and is on front page digg with 942 [...]

By: Linda

Linda — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 20:28:42 +0000

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.

By: Tamar Weinberg

Tamar Weinberg — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 19:34:39 +0000

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.

By: Russ Jones

Russ Jones — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 19:23:47 +0000

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.

By: ob81

ob81 — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 18:25:37 +0000

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.