It won’t be promoted… but Made popular 3 min ago
Maybe the title is confusing for all of you but I believe the images below will be more confusing. Right now, I am showing you something very shocking that I noticed on digg.com. There are so many loves and hates moving around related to digg but the snapshots below show that the current stable version of digg still have errors and issues.
The first image below clearly says that the story “$10M X Prize Announced for Solution to Gulf Oil Spill Crisis“ could not succeed when it came in the digg trending story this morning and digg failed it to get on the home page, as per the message says ” Failed! just like nu metal, this trend failed. It won’t be promoted. But it was not the case. So, what’s the case then? see the second image. I am not sure if it does matter but this story was submitted by Jay Adelson who worked as Digg’s CEO for five years and recently left out.
For those who don’t know what is digg trending story, click here to read in their own words.
Yes, in the image below digg says that story made popular 3 minutes ago which is weird, isn’t it? I dont understand that if the story was failed and won’t be promoted then how come it made popular.
This case forced me to think if digg algorithm is still alive or we are a part of community which is not credible anymore. Maybe it’s because that trending at digg.com is still in beta but they must consider this seriously. I am hoping Digg.com will not penalized us for bringing this case to the world.
Thanks to Chris who bring this in our knowledge and shared his latest experience with us.
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Comments
@Alex k let me explain, if a trending story is failed. it can never hit front page/ made popular. Still it was made popular ! how its made popular? any answer?
@Chris
I don’t think so it needs sensalization that the digg story was submitted by Digg Ex-CEO, so it got popular. I think its a bug in the Digg Trend and hopefully it will be sorted out.
I had witnessed similar thing happened to another story: http://digg.com/soccer/A_bit_fucking_late_now
This story failed on Digg Trend but saw it on front page after a while. You can the submitter is not a power user or has no connection with digg. Unfortunately, I don’t have any evidence to show that this story failed on trend. (But I hope you will take my words 
)
In the end, I feel SmashingApps will have huge role in getting this fixed.
P.S: I have no connection with digg 
Digg has a nasty reputation for penalizing websites for any tiny little reason they can find. They’re HUGE jerks. I would probably delete this story, if I were you Smashing Apps- depending on your traffic from Digg. Although it’s a “noble” post, sometimes the punishment isn’t worth it in the long run. All the best, though.
Hello Jeremy, Thank you for your support and suggestion but what we think is its not our mistake that we bring this knowledge to the world. However, it’s a BIG QUESTION on digg algorithm and I feel they have to clear this at any level but I know they will never do this.
If we will be penalized on digg so it will be another STRONG proof that what we have said above is absolutely correct and they have to make their algorithm fool proof for fair game.
P.S. With all hate and love (and excluding this issue)with digg, I am one of the ADDICTED DIGGER 
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I don’t get it, what’s wrong here? this explanation sucks.