So Henry Social Network User has written a brilliant article on his blog. The problem is that no one goes to his blog, and no one will read his article. Henry has a plan. He is a regular user of a few social networks and goes out and submits his to the two he uses the most, digg and reddit. With Digg and Reddit his site thrown in with many other bad, useless, and spammy submissions. In both cases there are users scanning the new submissions.

On Digg people dutifully mark the spam as spam and digg up his article. He gets a few diggs, but unfortunately everyone who dugg his article is just a normal person. What he really needed was a digg from a power users that help get most of the submissions upgraded to the front page. Instead of reaching thousands of people, his page is lost below the spam with a few diggs and a few hits. People can sort the new section by total diggs, but there are pages in pages of bot/spammer dugg crap. What he really should have done was waited until he saw one of the top users digging up new submissions and then submitted it.(ugh) The second option is to just submit to reddit, wait til it reaches the front page, then realize he is also on digg’s front page.

When he submits to reddit he has a better shot. The one obstacle is the intial mod up/down. As long as a bot isn’t modding down all new submissions except the bots submissions, chances are he will get enough users to read his article to make sure his site stays in the positives. As long as his site stays above 0 it will appear in the new section. Luckily more people like his article than dislike it and it makes a slow climb. His article only gets upmodded to about 15, but a good number of people see it and he is happy. At least reddit gave Henry a chance.

Neither site does it perfectly but reddit does submissions far better.

In the last few weeks I have submitted a few things to reddit and digg. The submissions to digg got a few diggs at best and very little traffic in every case(less than 5). The submissions to reddit were varied. One submission was upmodded to 15 and recieved about 100 unique visitors. One stayed at 1 and recieved 100 visitors. One was downmodded to 0 but still recieved 15 visitors.

posted by kbrower at 4:14 am & filed under digg, reddit |