Sometimes submissions will hit the front page of Digg that just don’t belong there. Some are pushed to the front page because of misleading titles. Others are bad but got there because they were pics (which seem to have an easier time hitting and subsequently moving to the top). A few were simply spam and were artificially promoted by armies of paid diggers.
This is not meant to insult the submitters. Many if them hit the front page often because they submit great content. These ones, however, weren’t as good as what they usually post.
Either way, this, the first list of many that will be posted weekly, should be the worst list we post. Why? Because we need YOUR help.
To the right, you will see portion of the sidebar called “Got a Story.” This is a way to contact the administrators and “submit” stories that are either great and didn’t hit the front page or terrible ones that should never have hit.
Without further ado, the list…
http://digg.com/people/Sell_a_Sex_Toy_Go_to_Jail_in_Alabama - 247 diggs
Mildly interesting, but not digg material. This one was buried from the front page and removed.
http://digg.com/football/Pacman_could_be_fully_reinstated_by_Sept_1_if_behavior_hold - 324 diggs
Pacman Jones is an interesting character, one who gets in trouble a lot, has a world of potential in football, and usually doesn’t seem to care. Of course, football pre-season hasn’t even started and it looks like he’ll be a nickle back or 2nd stringer when it does start, so we really don’t care. But hey, it’s sports. Easy category to hit on without a ton of diggs.
http://digg.com/music/What_Do_Japanese_People_Really_Think_of_Eric_Clapton_PIC -1458 Diggs
Stong submitter. Not a strong submission. You can’t win them all!
http://digg.com/space/Image_of_the_Purported_Alien — 2242 Diggs
This added a little value to the site. Not much. It’s obviously fake and it didn’t really say anything.
http://digg.com/pets_animals/This_was_how_the_big_panda_survived_in_the_earthquake_GIF — 3632 diggs
And?
http://digg.com/movies/Indiana_Jones_Crash_Course_in_Wooing_Women - 532 diggs
I love Indy, but what a boring story. Played on the popularity of the buzz with a great title. Story didn’t match in quality.
http://digg.com/music/MAN_RIPS_OFF_BEARD_looks_like_newborn_babe_afterwards - 1257 diggs
sigh
http://digg.com/pets_animals/Evil_Bunny_PIC — 3289 Diggs
“Evil” + “Bunny” + “Pic” = FRONT PAGE!
http://digg.com/pets_animals/ahhh_Me_iz_Sleepy_Whatz_about_you — 1617 diggs
I thought we were done with lolcats? I know for a fact that Digg was supposedly done with crappy lolcats, and this one wasn’t that good.
http://digg.com/travel_places/Southern_California_Skateparks - 601 Diggs
People complain about top users getting paid for diggs. Then, stories like this pop up that someone clearly promoted. It is spammy, uninformative, had a terrible, local title that 99% of the Digg population wouldn’t care about, and the opening batch of comments were so obviously planted there as paid comments it’s a wonder that they even tried to act interested in skateboarding. FAIL!
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submitted two photos in response to all the new bannings. They basically poke fun at his own banning while symbolically protesting the newest string of bannings from Digg.
Yes, it’s really old. I came across it bouncing through digg user profiles.
