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Digg Submits Get Unlimited Time to Reach Front Page

Went Hot: June 8, 2008 - 8:51 pm
Posted By: BrentCsutoras 393 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.brentcsutoras.com)
Category: Social Media

It would appear that a new bug hit Digg overnight causing all submissions to have no end time in reaching the front page. As you can see below, even submissions with only 1 Digg are showing in upcoming after 1 day 10 hours.

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from akor 391 days ago #

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I think, it's good feature for good digg posts.

from claires 391 days ago #

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What a nice little bug..

from claires 391 days ago #

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i recon is was that really fat german caterpillar from Bugslife!...

from edataprocessing 391 days ago #

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it's strange

from mvandemar 391 days ago # - show/hide this comment

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For some reason Brent saw fit to delete my comment on his blog.

It's not unlimited, it added a few extra hours here and there. It's also not new, started happening intermittently back on May 22nd:

http://www.seorefugee.com/forums/showthread.php?t=9847

from BrentCsutoras 391 days ago #

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@mvandemar - I just didn't approve the comment as it really wasn't helpful or valid.

I talked to Digg when it occured. While still speaking with them they fixed it in 10 mins time.

It was absolutely a bug and the submissions where unlimited until they fixed it... sorry but you don't know what your talking about.

Did it happen in May.... yes it did.. see where i blogged about it in March... http://www.brentcsutoras.com/2008/03/28/digg-extends-the-time-limit-on-upcoming-submissions/

However when that occured in March and in May it was seen as testing and a possible change more than a bug. This one was clearly a bug as even crap submissions with only 1 digg also remained in the system.

from mvandemar 389 days ago #

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If you don't want to approve comments that show evidence contrary to some of your claims, that's your business Brent... it's your blog. But what I saw, and commented on last May, had nothing whatsoever with the 10 minute extension from March, and was not testing. It was the exact same bug you just blogged about.