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Submitted by pgrit154 on 07/21/2008
The article was poorly written and most likely written by someone for whom English is a second language. But, the numbers he presented about DivineCaroline’s success on Digg are impressive and his points are valid.
I have to confess I’m a little biased here. I’ve perused through a few stories from the site - ones that hit Digg’s FP - and found the content to be very low quality. A few times, I found blogscraping on their site.
DC hit the FP 153 times in the last year, which would place them in the top 100 sources according to stats from di66.net. [EDIT: I just checked the stats right now for one year. DC is number 35 on the list.]
I also want to note that the second to last paragraph should have been redone to reflect the proportion of the number of the submitter’s popular stories from DC to the overall number of their submissions - not to the total number of stories that went popular by each submitter. He uses the stats to suggest gaming on the part of the users, but they really only reflect the success of the domain.
Still, is the quality of the content on DivineCaroline really deserving of that many FPs?
Original Description:
Divine Caroline was founded by Real Girls Media in February of 2007, as a the first of three female-oriented sites to be launched that year. The ‘Woman’s Web 2.0 Networking site’ has a target audience of females, ages 25-54. Considering that Digg’s audience is 76% male, this hardly makes sense to me.
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I’m gonna leave the same comment here that left on the original article. here it is:
As a female this doesn’t bother me one bit. It’s nice to see a female voices go popular on digg. and 24% of millions is a whole lot of females.
I’m not sure I follow what’s going on here. Philip Gritzmacher wrote and posted to digg the story that didn’t go popular. He also writes this PopFail entry. Yet he’s criticizing himself? It all doesn’t make sense. He makes some valid points however.
Either way, I think the audience on Digg is changing from tech & news to lifestyle and comedy stories. It’ll be interesting how Digg evolves to serve everyone.
Okay, I’m a big dork. I saw ’submitted by’ and thought wrong, I now see that gbarberi wrote this entry. newbie here, carry on
John, don’t worry; you’re not a dork. It’s understandable you got confused. You’re welcome back anytime.
Tomboys, I have nothing against a diversity of voices on Digg. My real issue here is that a significant proportion of the Front Paged stories from this site were submitted by only a few diggers. While it is true that other sites dominate the FP as well, I believe they have a more diverse base of submitters. This brings the quality of the site’s content into question.