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

By: Top Ten Reasons Google Will Buy Digg as Aquisition Seems Near

Top Ten Reasons Google Will Buy Digg as Aquisition Seems Near — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:55:43 +0000

[...] As we all know, many sites have been banned for Digg including yours truly for no reason other than Digg mafia antics and of course idiots like this. Google cannot continue to use Digg as a quality indicator when a [...]

By: How Malathy Can Get More Diggs

How Malathy Can Get More Diggs — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 12:31:12 +0000

[...] #4 for the term: (me) kicked off digg by the Digg mafia. [...]

By: Michael Samuel

Michael Samuel — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 16:44:26 +0000

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

By: Roger

Roger — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 15:50:55 +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.

By: The Digg Mafia Exists; or is it Digg "Support"? » Techtites

The Digg Mafia Exists; or is it Digg "Support"? » Techtites — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 14:04:06 +0000

[...] decided to blog about the same and the post was submitted to Digg. What was really surprising was that the post was buried within [...]

By: Ajay

Ajay — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 13:39:51 +0000

digg must be having a good filter system … any post against “kevin rose” or “digg” must monitored and buried.

By: Everton

Everton — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 13:33:34 +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

By: Baron VC

Baron VC — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 13:32:31 +0000

A Tribute to the Unsung Heroes of Digg (Bury Brigade Top 50)…

I’m sure some of you have noticed a big story today of how David LeMieux uncovered the name of Digg users executing buries through a Digg flaw thanks to Muhammad Saleem’s report. The flaw was patched shortly giving David access to 1700+ bu…

By: Enblogopedia

Enblogopedia — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 13:28:52 +0000

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

By: Thilak

Thilak — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 13:10:05 +0000

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

By: Everton

Everton — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 11:34:05 +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.

By: Ajay

Ajay — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 11:24:10 +0000

You’re right about that Everton and Martin, but there is without doubt a lot of underhand and unethical things happening at Digg.

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

By: Martin

Martin — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 10:59:55 +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.

By: Everton

Everton — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 09:57:57 +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

By: Ajay

Ajay — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 09:54:37 +0000

The reason digg won’t do anything about the digg brigade was because I don’t think they can.

Maybe it is not monetarily or technically feasible, or maybe it is just something else…