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smartguy911
07-10-2011, 10:44 AM
I was browsing digg.com and notice something truly weird. They had a story with the following title


Obama's Arrogance - Voters Will Not Care About Unemployment Come Election Day

I click on it to read it but when I go back to Digg, it was gone from Frontpage. Did they not like "Obama's arrogance" part?? Why not just edit the title instead of removing it completely? I took print screen, so you guys decide -

Here is the digg url that was removed - http://digg.com/news/politics/obama_s_arrogance_voters_will_not_care_about_unemp loyment_come_election_day

Here is the link to the story that digg was linking to - http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-07-07/unemployment-rate-won-t-hobble-re-election-david-plouffe-says.html

http://img52.imageshack.us/img52/5971/obamaarrogance4.th.png (http://img52.imageshack.us/i/obamaarrogance4.png/)
Print screen of the Google cache page for digg.com

http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/2979/obamaarrogance.th.jpg (http://img88.imageshack.us/i/obamaarrogance.jpg/)
Print screen of the Digg listing in Google

http://img703.imageshack.us/img703/2539/obamaarrogance2.th.jpg (http://img703.imageshack.us/i/obamaarrogance2.jpg/)
Print Screen of the digg url after it was removed from the homepage

http://img202.imageshack.us/img202/4315/obamaarrogance3.th.jpg (http://img202.imageshack.us/i/obamaarrogance3.jpg/)
Print screen of the digg.com top stories with the obama story on homepage
specsaregood
07-10-2011, 10:50 AM
people still visit digg?
Warrior_of_Freedom
07-10-2011, 11:12 AM
people still visit digg?

+1
CanadaBoy
07-10-2011, 11:45 AM
Does anyone here remember Digg back around 2007?
So much love and support for Ron Paul, then it became really pro-Obama around 08 and onwards.
demolama
07-10-2011, 12:59 PM
Big bucks control hot topics. It is no longer about user content pushing to the top but who will sponsor on Digg.
AGRP
07-10-2011, 02:31 PM
If theres one topic the statists will not tolerate, its the economy.

That goes for both sides, because no one can touch Ron Paul on the issue.
JoshLowry
07-10-2011, 02:38 PM
I was browsing digg.com and notice something truly weird. They had a story with the following title

As I understand it, digg is not like reddit. The story won't sink and rise with upvotes and downvotes, but they have an algorithm that puts many different stories on the front page and depending on how well they do over a certain short period of time, the story will stay front paged or it will be removed from front page completely. (Buried submission.)
smartguy911
07-10-2011, 03:23 PM
As I understand it, digg is not like reddit. The story won't sink and rise with upvotes and downvotes, but they have an algorithm that puts many different stories on the front page and depending on how well they do over a certain short period of time, the story will stay front paged or it will be removed from front page completely. (Buried submission.)

I wasn't logged into digg, so it's not personalized to me. So you are saying story went to frontpage of digg.com and it was buried right away by other users. From what I understand when a story is buried, it's not removed from digg. Story had 73 comments and digg removed it completely. I have never seen them do that before.
kah13176
07-10-2011, 04:31 PM
Requesting a move into "Media Spin".
JoshLowry
07-10-2011, 05:41 PM
I wasn't logged into digg, so it's not personalized to me. So you are saying story went to frontpage of digg.com and it was buried right away by other users. From what I understand when a story is buried, it's not removed from digg. Story had 73 comments and digg removed it completely. I have never seen them do that before.

Your thread title implied they removed it from the front page, I just threw out a reply because I didn't look deeper.

That is pretty strange. Good job documenting it. I don't visit the site anymore, but I believe they have removed articles in the past. Maybe they remove them if they have misleading headlines?
V3n
07-10-2011, 05:50 PM
Digg is completely sold out - advertisers buy the frontpage. If they're the ones telling digg what to put on the frontpage, makes sense they're the ones telling digg what to take down as well. I used to spend several hours a day on the site, I can barely look at it now.
smartguy911
07-11-2011, 12:01 AM
Digg is completely sold out - advertisers buy the frontpage. If they're the ones telling digg what to put on the frontpage, makes sense they're the ones telling digg what to take down as well. I used to spend several hours a day on the site, I can barely look at it now.

I think law was passed that requires posts to mention it's sponsored. If you go to digg, you will see sponsored stories are clearly labeled. Most don't even bother to check them out anymore. The Obama story wasn't sponsored and still removed. I still wonder if this was political move.
Golding
07-11-2011, 12:10 AM
Because you are a mundane. :D