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Digg Burying "How Obama Got Elected"?

Submitted by willamettevalley on Wed, 11/26/2008 - 02:24
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I saw a post on thenextright the other day that linked to a DontGo article on how conservatives need to collaborate more.  One of the suggestions was to get 500+ people to drive certain stories to the top on Digg.com.

I had never paid must attention to these rating tools like Digg, Reddit, or Buzz, but thought that to the extent that these sites drive traffic, there could be some value there, so I signed up for a Digg account.

I saw a Digg icon at John Ziegler's http://www.howobamagotelected.com that exposes the result of the media bias during the 2008 election.  So I Dugg it.

Ziegler's YouTube video had been Dugg 1967 times, which should be plenty to get it up on the most Dugg list.  I looked at the most Dugg stories in the Political News section for the past 30 days (it had first been dug 8 days ago) and went to the second page and found where it should have been, right between "Bush Regrets Comments During Presidency" with 2058 Diggs and "Chris Matthews: My Job Is To Make Obama Presidency A Success" with 1797 Diggs.

Ziegler's video was no where to be found.  It is on Digg's site, but conspicuously missing from the "front page" where people visiting Digg might spot it.

Is Digg spiking stories it doesn't like?

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Well...

Submitted by Warner Todd Huston on Wed, 11/26/2008 - 09:35.

Well, I wouldn't say it's "no where to be found." If you do a search for it you can find it. It's in the videos section, not the politics section.

Yes, it is still no where to be found

Submitted by willamettevalley on Wed, 11/26/2008 - 10:10.

Warner Todd Huston, if you can find it so easy, please explain better how you are finding it.

The ONLY way I can find it is to search for "How Obama Got Elected", set filter to All Stories or Upcoming Stories (as opposed to Front Page Stories), choose "Sort by Most Diggs", AND I have to check "Include Buried Stories".

You cannot find the "How Obama Got Elected" YouTube Video that has 1972 Diggs anywhere else.  It is categorized under Political News, and it is not under All or Videos.

The entire point of Digg is to drive traffic to a site that a bunch of other people Dugg.  Usually a few hundred Diggs gets you on the Front Page for your category, and more people see your site and Digg it, and you keep moving up.  If they take you off the Front Page, they can artificially stunt your number of Diggs.

The idea that you should have to search to find an article on Digg is absurd.  If you knew about it, you would go straight to the site.

Digg has this video buried.  The big question is why?

Well

Submitted by Warner Todd Huston on Wed, 11/26/2008 - 17:27.

I found it this morning easily enough.  But I am at work now and Digg and YouTube is blocked here. I'll try to remeber to check it again tomorrow.

But, like  said, I found it in the videos section and a search found it with the all chosen and the buried stories checked (as you mentioned).

The reason it's in the video section, I think, is because that's where it was originally Dugg to. That's why it isn't in the political stories section. The guy that made the video itself put it in the video section when he set up his Digg tag.

innovation

Submitted by eow101281 on Wed, 11/26/2008 - 10:32.

There are enough blogs out there for me to know that the conservatives are good at using that means, but you're right, mediums like viral marketing, working on creating PR yourself are the means the conservatives need to reform the party and publicize themselves enough to beat the illuminati in future elections.

oh, and I guess I forgot to

Submitted by eow101281 on Wed, 11/26/2008 - 10:34.

oh, and I guess I forgot to respond to the point of the post! I wouldn't be surprised if someone in the leftist illuminati, in charge of a site like that, used it to their advantage to not let things be exposed that they don't like.

Interesting

Submitted by NoMoreBlatherDotCom on Wed, 11/26/2008 - 18:05.

The post with 1700 or so Diggs linked in the article should turn up in this search, but does not.

 

In any case, the poll associated with the video is yet an example of how Obama's opponents made costly mistakes.

 

The fact that they made those mistakes in the first place is a strong indicator that they won't learn from them, and will lose again.