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**Mikhail Simkin** · 02-09-2008, 08:53 PM

If right now you look into Digg design-upcoming-most

http://digg.com/all/design/upcoming/most

my "artist or ape" page is in the left column on the fifth place with 18 diggs.

However it is absent in the right column "hot in design" which they include in feeds. At the same time "hot" column includes pages with only 4 diggs.

Interesting. Very interesting.

**chrishirst** · 02-10-2008, 02:57 AM

Errm. Yes.

Absolutely fascinating sleep.gif sleep2.gif

**Mikhail Simkin** · 02-10-2008, 04:41 AM

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Not everyone is blessed with such powerful intellect as yours. But for me it is still an interesting question why 4 diggs is hot but 18 (now, actually, 33) is not.

**ForrestCroce** · 02-10-2008, 01:38 PM

Probably the 'strength' of the user profiles casting those diggs.

**Mikhail Simkin** · 02-10-2008, 05:32 PM

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Originally Posted by ForrestCroce

Probably the 'strength' of the user profiles casting those diggs.

Got it. Some diggers are more equal than others.

They now removed my webpage even from the left column. But I saved a screenshot yesterday.

**Mikhail Simkin** · 02-11-2008, 03:04 AM

Here is what my webpage finally got on Digg

http://digg.com/design/An_artist_or_an_ape

51 diggs, 4 comments

In contrast, on the Spanish language social bookmark site

http://meneame.net/story/un-artista-o-un-mono

it got 332 meneos and 87 comentarios and was on their front page for several hours yesterday. This is despite that my page is in English.

Some weird things must be happening on Digg.

**ADAM Web Design** · 02-11-2008, 10:56 AM

Maybe you either submitted it yourself or paid for one of those useless "Digg submission services" and they figured it out.

Like Hirst said, though, your issue is a big load of nothing interesting. People who worry about how a system like Digg works in that kind of detail and that pay that much attention to it are usually the ones trying to game it in the first place.

**Learning Newbie** · 02-11-2008, 11:59 AM

(1) The person who submitted your page to Digg used this comment " Even though both suck as artists

- it is pretty easy to tell the difference..." and an avatar that's a picture of a pot leaf. Other things pizzler has submitted

Do not swallow chewing gum
Thanks MrBabyMan for 2000 (!) Front Page Memories
14 Simple Ways to Convert Your Sedentary Lifestyle
10 Gag Gifts Sure to Enrage Even the Most Sedate Homophobe

(2) Digg never claimed to be fair or a democracy or equal. They claimed to be entertaining. They take things more seriously from users who help them to do that.

(3) Digg invented their system, so they can really do anything they want with it. If equality is more important to you, you can create EquiDigg, or something like it.

**ADAM Web Design** · 02-11-2008, 12:25 PM

Equality only exists when I'm more equal than you are.

**Mikhail Simkin** · 02-11-2008, 02:18 PM

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Originally Posted by ADAM Web Design

Maybe you either submitted it yourself or paid for one of those useless "Digg submission services" and they figured it out.

I neither submitted it myself nor paid anyone to do so. My website was discussed in thousands blogs and forums. Here are eighty during just past three days.

http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.co...st-or-ape.html

http://www.metafilter.com/68935/Hey-...uld-paint-that

http://www.myfoxny.com/myfox/pages/I...Y&pageId=5.2.1

http://www.gramota.ru/lenta/links/9_57

http://goldismoney.info/forums/showthread.php?t=234247

http://forums.anandtech.com/messagev...&enterthread=y

http://navigatrix.wordpress.com/2008...slabs-of-wood/

http://greer-mine.livejournal.com/4533.html

http://www.tugbbs.com/forums/showthread.php?t=64338

http://inderrieden.blogspot.com/2008...-bookcase.html

http://localghost.ru/blog/?p=334

http://forum.mr-spb.ru/showthread.php?t=5596

http://www.wiredjc.com/index.php/topic,287.0/all.html

http://linuxforum.ru/index.php?showtopic=60781

http://www.mybargainbuddy.com/forums...ad.php?t=58089

http://www.designobserver.com/archives/032214.html

http://jaspermilvain.blogspot.com/20...ndinavian.html

http://angelamolandbarnes.com/2008/0...iday-fun-quiz/

http://theerrantaesthete.com/2008/02...-have-the-eye/

http://web.mit.edu/2.744/www/

http://countercritic.com/2008/02/07/...iginal-critic/

http://forum.mediaport.info/read.php?5,484726

http://snitch.ru/forum/index.php?sho...20&#entry44902

http://drx.typepad.com/psychotherapy...furniture.html

http://digg.com/design/An_artist_or_an_ape

http://www.redflagdeals.com/forums/s...d.php?t=551755

http://homefries.org/blogarchives/qu...ist-or-an-ape/

http://joeirvin.blogspot.com/2008/02/testing.html

http://www.club-keanu.com/lounge/index.php?topic=4851.0

http://spannerbackup.ipbhost.com/ind...ic=189&st=5400

http://forums.lusternia.com/index.php?showtopic=14798&st=0&

http://forums.warriorsworld.net/other/msgs/177481.phtml

http://cyclequark.wordpress.com/2008/02/09/229/

http://dakwallah.livejournal.com/40218.html

http://www.woobiquity.com/ubiquity/2...er-or-fak.html

http://kajac2000.blogspot.com/2008/0...-for-this.html

http://highclearing.com/index.php/ar...008/02/09/7844

http://portasheville.blogspot.com/20...furniture.html

http://whatisunseen.blogspot.com/200...an-vs-ape.html

http://uabchoirs.blogspot.com/2008/0...st-or-ape.html

http://www.momsquawk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=19097

http://www.historica.ru/index.php?showtopic=3484&st=150

http://www.modelmayhem.com/p.php?thread_id=247992

http://tallerbidimensional.wordpress...nteria-barata/

http://www.gfxartist.com/community/forum/162709

http://www.conservationreport.com/20...st-or-ape.html

http://meneame.net/story/un-artista-o-un-mono

http://reddit.com/info/6898j/details

http://logophilka.livejournal.com/89500.html

http://www.elotrolado.net/hilo_ARCO-...6?pagenumber=3

http://www.makinamania.com/index.php/topic,83516.0.html

http://www.3dinfografica.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=136

http://www.margaretsoltan.com/?p=3517

http://elpatitodegoma.creatuforo.com...itodegoma.html

http://www.ereslibre.es/fdi/foro/viewtopic.php?t=76

http://www.pspain.com/foro/showthread.php?t=81466

http://groups.msn.com/ex-LNOL/genera...60089522654162

http://nend.blogspot.com/2008/02/un-...o-un-mono.html

http://forums.hipinion.com/viewtopic.php?t=209703

http://www.tudork.es/2008/02/artista-o-mono.html

http://www.beholder-art.com/events.html#id14

http://www.stumbleupon.com/url/rever...furniture.html

http://www.early-retirement.org/foru...t-33224-2.html

http://putitup.wordpress.com/2008/02...re-you-decide/

http://foros.softonic.com/showthread.phtml?t=63456

http://www.johnsenclan.com/wordpress...0/links-21008/

http://www.lokuras.com/showthread.php?p=247554

http://www.festiforo.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=408

http://groups.msn.com/ex-lnol/genera...60091242761522

http://www.emoxion.com/forum/siguien...r=asc&start=10

http://www.clubmbfaq.es/forum/viewtopic.php?t=94315

http://www.evangelicaloutpost.com/archives/004228.html

http://tsuricata.livejournal.com/94907.html

http://www.transbuddha.com/content/i...at-free-links/

Apaarently one of the readers of those blogs put it on Digg.

**Learning Newbie** · 02-11-2008, 02:38 PM

The ones of those I spot checked honestly weren't anything like discussions. One was a handful of links, the other was a 2 sentence blogspot post. Another on MSN groups is two images. The others I saw looked like quick link drops.

Digg's algorithm doesn't count links like Google's seems to.

If you didn't pay for the diggs you got, then what's the problem? There was no swindling - a topic submitted to Digg didn't become popular. It happens every day.

**chrishirst** · 02-11-2008, 03:19 PM

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was on their front page for several hours yesterday

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Here are eighty during just past three days.

Mikhail
do we assume you are are a student? Or are you simply killing some time?

Because I can think of dozens of better things to be doing any day of the week than watching Digg for several hours or looking for blogs discussing other blogs.