No Friends on Digg? This Might be Why.
Have you ever wondered why it’s so freakin’ hard to get people on Digg to add you as a friend. Unlike MySpace and other sites where it seems like more friends is always a plus, on Digg.com users may feel the all important ad revenues that can come through getting stories on the homepage are too important, and they guard that money-making potential by not adding friends. There are ways to gain power on Digg, for instance if you have made several stories popular others feel like they can use your power to boost their Diggs and will therefore add you as a friend. Some Digg users even join alliances like the Digg Alliance Network in order to participate in making stories popular, and they even get a piece of the ad revenue the alliance generates. So, if you aren’t into Digg for the money and you truly care about quality news be free in adding friends and maybe the little guys can finally win out over the Digg elite and the Digg alliances.
June 23rd, 2007 at 1:42 am
I totally disagree. I would say I’m quite the ‘Power Digger’, but I’m not into Digg for the money. I don’t need it. I don’t have a blog, I don’t do deals with large corporations. I just enjoy the site. Most of my friends on Digg are into the site for the same reason. From MrBabyMan to petsheep. Or tomboy501, msaleem and SeaMowse. Check my submission history and theirs, we value content over all else. So give me a break and do a little more research before you start dissing Diggers with friends.
June 23rd, 2007 at 9:42 am
I agree with you.
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June 23rd, 2007 at 6:27 pm
Hey… thanks for the ’shout out’, Zaibatsu, and may I return the favor. It’s true. I started on Digg with just 5 friends. Within, maybe 3 weeks, I had over 40. I’ve been a Digg member now for 2 months, and have 120 friends, and that’s not including the people I haven’t befriended - yet. That’s not to say I’m being stuck up and won’t befriend eveybody, it’s just that I seem to acuire more everytime I have a story Front Page. I do take the time and research those who have befriended me. If they have dug alot of my stories, I add them on. I usually add on one or two every couple of days. And I’m not in any sort of ‘dig alliance’, nor am I in it for the money. My bunch of friends are very active in the Digg community, if not with submissions, then are digging articles. And I have a wide group of friends… some have just a couple of friends, and others, such as Mooj, Zaibatsu, Petsheep, MrBabyMan etc. Funny thing is, I’m too shy to ask people to befriend me, so I wait for them to come to me. Call it an inferiority complex, I guess.
But I do agree 100% with Zaibatsu, and not just because he’s already my friend (sorry to ASSume that you are a male, Zaibutsu… if you’re not, then ‘my bad’!) Best thing to do is to wait it out. They’ll come rolling in. I’ve also started to leave comments in submission - it shows the submitter that you are truly ‘digging’ their submissions, and not just trying to win them over.