A Digging observation

This I find quite interesting. There is no doubt that the Digg effect is great for your traffic logs. Even if you hit the sub 100 diggs, your server is likely to take strain. What I find weird is that how little times people actually digg something!

If you look at this post of Lenovo running the Poll on which Linux to ship with, they have had far more votes on the poll that they have had diggs. In fact, the ratio is only 3.4%! Admittedly, we do not know how many traffic actually came from Digg and how many came from other sources. You would however think people who support such an initiative would vote on the poll and at the same time digg the article to get even more voters to support the cause.

I just find it amusing, thats all.

818 diggs

VS. 23720 Votes

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Tags: digg, linux, lenovo, ubuntu

2 Comments to "A Digging observation"

• Chris M said: On 09/12/2007 at 12:30 pm

  Interesting, but doesn’t suprise me at all. I often talk to other bloggers about Digg, and how often users actually Digg articles. A number of bloggers whom I talk with often, are not members of Digg. They frequent the Digg website very often, but just aren’t interested in signing up and having to click around to place a Digg.

  I think we need a online voting service, which doesn’t require authentication, I realise that tracking and cheat voting prevention would be hard, but I think it would be far popular.

  What do you think?

• Stii said: On 09/12/2007 at 5:35 pm

  Interesting, Chris! Yes, that would be an amazing system, if it could be trusted! It would however be near impossible to eliminate cheating. On the other hand, if a person is that desparate to cheat, maybe we should just let them

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