It seems that every where you go you just cannot escape the fact that Digg is huge. However i am seeing more and more posts saying Digg is this and Digg is that and Digg is going to the dogs. Well maybe they are right and maybe they are not.
These are my 7 reasons why I believe Digg is going to down hill and fast.
1. Digg is no longer fair to the little guys. The larger websites with the largest traffic will always receive more Diggs. Digg is all about popularity.
2. You have no control over who submits your articles.
3. Their is no benefit what so ever to submitting an article on some one else’s website.
4. You can receive good traffic from Digg but nine times out often it crashes the servers.
5. Members are getting banned for the daftest things.
6. A lot of posts are posted in completely the wrong category with very little moderation.
7. Digg can and will remove content for as they out it “No reason at all” if they receive a complaint. So if some one posts something similar to you, you could then complain for it to be removed before posting it yourself and yes it does happen.
Some of you will agree with the above and a lot of you wont but either way we welcome your comments on this subject.
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#1 by Curt at PennyJobs.com on April 9th, 2008
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I’m not so sure… I think digg is here to stay, but maybe a new digg is what we need with a solution to the problems that you mentioned. I think social networks are in more danger then digg, because their ads are not getting clicked, so they are not making any money. Social networks are like a church that spends a lot of money on the youth group, yet never gets a return because the youth don’t put money in the bucket – the parent do. Digg is well supported and respected by large media and business because it has an intelligent (high income) captivated audience.
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#2 by Loup Dargent on April 10th, 2008
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Another thing Digg can do is make a website/blog “undiggable”
if there have been “complaints” about articles submitted from it.
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#3 by Chris Lang on May 3rd, 2008
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Digg is also exposing our private settings for reasons that are too speculative to mention. However it is true that Digg exposes your shout history to anyone.
As shouts leading to Digg pages build up the links are in our history files and they are PUBLIC! As you continually shout your own content you begin to look like someone only using Digg to get traffic and links to Google and Yahoo!
The proof is here with screen shots:
http://www.keywebdata.com/?p=71
And screen shots of search engine rankings going up after the test site quit shouting it’s own content.