Did Digg game its own system to benefit publisher partners?

Re:Did Digg game its own system to benefit publisher partners? by brandnewlow on Tuesday October 26, 2010 @12:55AM (#1833056)

Author needs a detailed rundown of Diggs publishing partner program and how it works for this piece to be complete.

Otherwise, this is great scoop. As someone who runs a bootstrapped, ramen profitable niche social news site, I have to chuckle at the irony. The Reddit founders have admitted publicly on many occasions that they used sock puppets to bootstrap a community on their site. Meanwhile is having to fire up Sock puppets to survive after raising $40 MM. Ouch.

Also funny, the article says Kevin rose posts were only getting 30 diggs these days. Were we getting a glimpse behind the curtain of the true size of Diggs active community there? To put it perspective, Windy Citizen does about 70-100k visits/month. Our hottest stories each week will crack 20-25 votes.

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Re:Did Digg game its own system to benefit publisher partners? by wardrox on Tuesday October 26, 2010 @07:02AM (#1833725)

Sidetrack: "ramen profitable" finally, a reachable goal for my start-up.

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Re:Did Digg game its own system to benefit publisher partners? by klbarry on Tuesday October 26, 2010 @01:20PM (#1835083)

I'm interested in your experience with your social news site, and making it popular/profitable. Would you mind shooting me a link via email?

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Re:Did Digg game its own system to benefit publisher partners? by brandnewlow on Tuesday October 26, 2010 @03:40PM (#1835721)

Check the profile. :)

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