Why are none of the Ron Paul articles showing up on a digg?

[cheese]

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I've dugg several ron paul digg articles this past week, but havent found one that showed up in upcoming or popular lists.

wtf is going on?

[susano]

See Alex Jones on that. He's been ranting about it. They are burying everything.

[cheese]

/bump

[kidal25]

don't put ron paul in the title of your diggs and you should be fine i think.

[gpickett00]

Alex Jones is a tool

[RobS]

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I've dugg several ron paul digg articles this past week, but havent found one that showed up in upcoming or popular lists.

wtf is going on?

Try to get a crappy Apple story to the front page.

See what happens.

Same thing as with Ron Paul.

The more stories that are submitted with the same keywords and that get promoted to the frontpage, the more buries get "weighted" so that a single bury can have a big effect on a story. It takes more diggs to get a very popular topic to the frontpage, so that crappy stories don't make it to the frontpage with 200 diggs just because they contain the word "Apple" or "Ron Paul".

No conspiracy, move along.

[susano]

Alex Jones is a tool

And you're an idiot

[UtahApocalypse]

This is why:

Look, the digg algorithim is fine-tuned against people voting en masse. What you do when you have "DIGG THIS" on this board, and everyone races over to digg Ron Paul stories, is normalize the standard of Ron Paul stories.

So.. basically, when the same group of people dig the same stories, their diggs count for less and less on the whole. Likewise, when people bury a story based on keywords, if the same people bury stories, their buries are less and less effective.

In short, what you guys have done is cheapen the value of the Ron Paul story. There are so many Ron Paul stories that the Digg algorithim has corrected to deal with the "RP Flood" coming over. Your votes are all lesser in value because of your past voting histories.

Therefore, it takes FAR fewer buries , and even in some cases depending on who voted the story up.. just one , to bury a story.

The answer is, stop digging only Ron Paul stories. Digg other stories. Bury other stories. Don't bury in just a category and don't digg in just a category. Be a broad user of the site, and not narrowly focused on Ron Paul.. and you'll find that you can digg or bury stories and have your vote count MORE.