Only 68 Diggs and Down Already?
We all know the feeling when you see an article, comic, picture, video or website that piques your interest on Digg and when you go to click the link you see nothing more than “Server Unavailable” in big, black text. As if that isn’t annoying already, you then start looking at the comments to find a mirror. If that isn’t difficult enough to begin with, you have to read the same fucking comment over and over again: “Only 68 diggs and it’s down!!!!?!!”
Thanks very much, Sherlock!
The issue with seeing that comment so often is bothersome because it insinuates the idea that Digg users have not surpassed a point of being mentally handicapped. You see, somewhere along the line, these Diggers got it in their heads that the number of Diggs was tightly correlated with the number of views. Here’s the problem with that logic. If you view the page, video, porn, comic, penis, or whatever and you decide that you don’t like it, you do not Digg it. Therefore there has been one view and zero Diggs. See how this works?
Well, as you might have come to realize over the last few years, an article hitting the front page is drastically different than it being near the front page or even in the upcoming section. Once it hits the front page there may literally be only seconds before thousands of people are frantically making page requests to that server. Not only is it unreasonable to think that everyone should have a Digg-proof server but it’s also unreasonable to think that once it hits the front page, everyone will actually see the content.
For instance, if this blog hits the front page, it will very likely crash immediately before anyone gets the chance to Digg it. So it may be sitting on the front page for a while and meanwhile nobody can even see what the hell it is. Eventually a mirror may pop up and the Diggs may slowly start rising but until then the Digg count is dead in the water.
The moral of this story is that Diggs and site visits aren’t correlated so shut the fish up.
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