How does digg work?

[stevetheman]

If a story has "been made popular" shouldn't it therefore have made it to the frontpage?

[ericjosepi]

Really, I'm no techie here but to my understanding it works on an algorithm designed so that if a story gets "x" amount of votes with in "y" amount of time it hits the front page. But that's just the simplistics of it. They've been doing a lot of work recently and I think some of it depends on what Kevin Rose has called a "Karma System" where good users votes mean more and spammers votes mean less.

Again... that's really the basics... if you can find a digg programmer ask him to explain... but he may have to kill you afterwards.

Cheer,
Eric

[bman]

What he just explained is basically it, but sometimes the ones that are popular but have not made it too the front page, well after awhile it will too.

[magunwarrior]

The one story I have that's been promoted took about 24 hours to get to it. It just depends on if you get a lot of diggs in a short amount of time.

[stevetheman]

thanks for the insight. Yeah i've got a story that says it has been made popular but it never showed up on the front page

[magunwarrior]

Maybe you missed it? check a few pages back.

[stevetheman]

no....it said it was made popular 3 minutes ago and i never saw it on the front page

[darknessgp]

Best simple way to describe it...

1. Submit Story
2. People digg
3. people/story life time = promotion?
4. ???
5. Profit

in all seriousness though, there is a complex algorithm in place that takes account of who's friends with who, how many stories the submitter and digger have submitted or dugg, etc, etc.