Okay Geek Farm
Did Digg game their own system? Was the algorithm a lie?
“Clearly the above facts point the finger at digg with no one else as a suspect, however there is no concrete evidence to say that digg is 100% responsible, so I will only write to say that Digg is the one and only prime suspect here — Now that I am accusing Digg of something huge, I am going to give them a fair chance to explain their side until I publish this. However, I strongly suspect that data destruction might happen.” — LtGenPanda
This is about as bad as it gets. Long time and hard-core Digg user LtGenPanda slowly began to raise suspicion about Digg’s homepage fiasco and the fact that all it took was a slight “tweak” in the algorithm to fix it. This got him thinking, and countless hours later he has amassed over 200 XML files of raw data from Digg’s servers, outlining the exact activity that happened over the past while.
He then began to re-form it all into charts, graphs and human-readable context that brought cold chills down our spines. This data is un-doubtably real (it was downloaded directly from Digg’s servers), and it was un-modified, raw XML data. It highlighted the popular domains on the homepage, and the fact that there are dozens of fake users that Digg only big-name publishers with no avatars, names or identity whatsoever.
LtGenPanda further explains that he is planning to stay in touch with Digg after recieveing this response from them — “That is a lot of information to assess in such a short period of time. Unfortunately, we’re not going to be able to get back to you with a comment within 30 minutes.” — and for the next while, he is going to sit tight until they get back to him, and if they do not, he will publicly upload all 200+ raw XML files that Digg is desperately trying to destroy. This is the worlds most saddening twist ending.
Brandon Davenport
Digg Deleted our post?
This has to be a mistake — we are using the RSS importer tool for Digg, and this morning, this story magically dissapeared from our profile page - digg.com/t3chh3lp - and we are wondering if they removed it manually. This is starting to look horriffic….
