Nerve Endings Firing Away

After submitting 79 stories on Digg over the past one year (I know, that’s pathetic), one of my submitted stories finally made it to the front page. I have been active infrequently on Digg and probably would constitute as the 89% member [by the 1% rule] occasionally crossing over to the other 1-10% group. I have been burned quite a few times by many of my ‘quality’ links not being dugg enough to land on the front page. The maximum diggs I got on my submitted links was 15 and that wasn’t enough especially after Digg tweaked their algorithm. I gave it up few times and instead chose to contribute on Digital Journal, where incidentally I found the story that landed me on the front page [finally] on Digg. I didn’t even realize this until I checked my Digg profile as I do once a day.

The story that got promoted by actually just a screenshot of a FireFox browser with all possible extensions and add-ons enabled. You never know what people will like but I guess with a niche audience that has clear biases toward anything to do with FireFox, PS3, Wii, or Digg-stories, it wasn’t entirely unexpected. The story is going strong with 3094 diggs so far and is currently the top story for today. To be honest, this story was submitted almost a year ago (but didn’t land on the front page) with a different URL but I chose to resubmit it because, hey you never know if it might be an idea whose time has come, right? Yay!

I know, people make a post when one of their posts lands on the Digg front page and I am getting happy just because my ‘submitted’ link made the front page. What can I say, I am easily pleased.