Digg

Digg is a rapidly growing website that emphasizes technology news, and combines social bookmarking, blogging, syndication, with a form of non-hierarchical, democratic editorial control. News stories and websites are submitted by users, then promoted to the front page through a user-based ranking system. This differs from the hierarchical editorial system that many other news sites employ (such as Slashdot).

The Digg Effect

As Digg increases its user base, its impact on links that make it to the hompage is inevitably increasing. This has led to circumstances of what is being known as the 'digg effect.' In parallel to the Slashdot effect (or "being Farked"), some web servers either a) go over the monthly allotted bandwidth limit or b) go down completely due to the rapid short-term influx of visitors. Examples of the digg effect can be found here and here.

Related Topics:
Slashdot effect - Farked

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