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Re: Finally Proof That The Digg Bury Brigade (aka Digg Mafia) Does Exist

Michael Samuel — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 12:44:26 -0000

I agree with Everton. Digg will not do anything unless they are officially supported...

Re: Finally Proof That The Digg Bury Brigade (aka Digg Mafia) Does Exist

Roger — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 10:50:55 -0000

Hi,

Great post, not surprising in view of my experience 2 weeks ago.

I was also one of the commenters on Digg at the time of â€˜growthâ€™ of Ajay's article "Why the Digg Mafia will cost Kevin Rose Millions". That got buried in about 30 hits although still kept on attracting votes - currently sitting at 330 - even as buried. Automatic, systematic burying of individual comments (all were in agreement of the article) was rampant. On every comment, and in seconds. I posted a subsequent article (True Loyalty & Death of Digg). Technically, it is still there somewhere in the annals of Digg - has not been buried as far as I can see. However, that is as good as dead - no one can see it without clicking the URL. Digg banned me almost soon after it started gaining ground, which it was doing fast.

In a way, I am glad itâ€™s happened - helps me get distance from Digg. Thanks for giving me a platform to air my experience.

Re: Finally Proof That The Digg Bury Brigade (aka Digg Mafia) Does Exist

Everton — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 08:33:34 -0000

I submitted the story to digg, and it was buried within 5 mins!!!

I decided to keep an eye on the submission as soon as I got the alert and it was indeed buried in 5 mins. The only way a post could get buried that fast is if the digg admin team did it.

I can't see how digg can continue being so heavy-handed in their approach. Together with the Digg Bury Brigade they will eventually drive lots of users away

Re: Finally Proof That The Digg Bury Brigade (aka Digg Mafia) Does Exist

Ibrahim Faour — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 08:28:52 -0000

I submitted the story to digg, and it was buried within 5 mins!!!

Re: Finally Proof That The Digg Bury Brigade (aka Digg Mafia) Does Exist

Thilak — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 08:10:05 -0000

Yeah Ajay, Digg has a bunch of young dude who go burying just about any post which they disagree..

Re: Finally Proof That The Digg Bury Brigade (aka Digg Mafia) Does Exist

Everton — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 06:34:05 -0000

And, have you realized that all this negative popularity is bringing in its pageviews and money as well?

Based on those traffic charts you posted and the number of diggs homepage articles seem to be getting these days which seems to be falling, I'm not so sure about that Ajay.

Re: Finally Proof That The Digg Bury Brigade (aka Digg Mafia) Does Exist

Martin — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 05:59:55 -0000

Ajay they could very well do something against this. Ban accounts of users who dump articles, ban IPs, make it harder for articles to get dumped, restrict the amount of dumps per day aso.

They are not doing enough to stop it, this is clear.

Re: Finally Proof That The Digg Bury Brigade (aka Digg Mafia) Does Exist

Everton — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 04:57:57 -0000

no, I think the reason why digg won't do anything is because they are unofficially supported and as Jason said, some digg staffers are members