According to Techcrunch, Digg’s founder just announced new changes to the rating algorithm - namely, it becomes very difficult to promote a story to the homepage with the help of your friends: a diverse, unique group of diggers is needed for this.
So… this means the end of the “Digg circles”(where u ask your friends for their votes), the end of Digg as social network (an attempt tried out by Digg in 2007 - where u could “shout” a story to your Digg friends, asking for votes) and makes it desirable to not have Digg friends at all. I still have no idea how u’d be able to get a story promoted to the front page - perhaps by asking your blog readers to vote for it, but this would only work if u have a large(diverse) number of devoted readers. Other than that… I haven’t got a clue.
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> I still have no idea how u’d be able to get a story promoted to the front page
Maybe just submitting interesting articles should do it
At least this is how it (mostly) works on reddit.
trust me, just submitting interesting articles is not enough… - the copywriting involved plays a big part, so does the “critical mass” of initial votes
reddit has a different design and user base, eager to increase their karma points by promoting other new stories as well.
However, the Digg system implies that: either the story u submit is on a popular blog(so that other users get to submit/vote it), or - you have some way to tell the world u submitted a cool story - this was mainly accomplished via the digg friends system. Otherwise, your only chance is that random visitors vote your story on the upcoming page - pretty rare.
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