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Quick Digg Howto
By admin | March 14, 2007
This guy came up with the ten most likely ways you will end up on the Digg frontpage. Now, if you want to is of course all up to yourself 
“1. Write about Digg.com People must be sitting at their computers going “OMG Look it’s a story about Digg! That’s sooooooo cool! I’ll totally digg that!†Bonus points if you mention Kevin Rose.
2. Make It very Easy to read and Fun as well. Remember, the average digger has the attention span of a gnat on crack. Diggers want the fast, easy answer that will solve all their problems. Your headline must appeal to people with severe ADD or most people won’t even read your article - let alone Digg it.
3. Write about how cool Firefox is. When it comes to Firefox, no story is too lame, no plugin is too useless and no article can praise Firefox too much for the front page of Digg. Sure, it’s just a freaking browser. Sure, it leaks memory faster than . . . umm . . . some kind of leaky thing leaking much faster than usual. Sure no one really needs YAFFFP - but who cares?!?
In the Past Firefox has gotten to the front page once every 2 days
4. Appeal To Apple Fans Did you hear someone who knows someone who served Steve Jobs a cup of coffee about a mac rumor. Well! that is Front page Digg.com Material Dont ask me why But its Really Cool! Apple Fanboys on Digg.com are like “WOAH Thats Cool! Ima Digg it! WooHoo!â€
5. Repeat After Me“Microsoft sucks, Microsoft Really Sucks, †So what if 95% of all computer users use their products? Ignore that they’ve been the most consistent winner for the last 20 years in space with failures. Who cares if Bill Gates their founder has given more to charity than any human that has ever given to charity. They suck! They Really Suck And they are all Bad Guys! Why? Because it’s cool to say so, Every Digger knows that!
6. Make up outrageous statistics that you have not researched. State your opinions as fact. Sure, they might get vetted by some geek who has nothing better to do, but that probably won’t happen until you’ve already made the front page. It’s like this story right here http://digg.com/offbeat_news/Arrested_man_looks_like_Beavis
Totally False Yet Diggers like Totally Loved it! They were like WOO HOO Thats like Soo Cool!
7. Remember: Walmart, Microsoft, Bill Gates, George Bush, and Fox News have NEVER done ANYTHING right. Everything they do is because they are 100% evil to the core. This is So true on Digg.com someone sees something they revert to step 6 and are like OMG Fox has Crashed everything is gone and Users on Digg.com are like WOW Really Im like Totally watching Fox News right now even tho they get all of there stories from Digg.com and they will like steal the story from Digg.com that Fox News is crashing and Im Going to Totally Digg it!
8. Piss People Off! Everyone likes flamewars drop something in your post that dares people to comment on it. If you dont piss off half of your readers by the end of your article you either suck or dont know how.
9. Diggers dont care about natural disasters or how the government screws people over. They do feel like they have to digg them now to act like they care. They most likely wont even read the article they will be like ohh im a Good Samaritan today Im digging that thing!
10. See I laid it out perfectly for you If you had ADD I used alot of Exclamation !!!!! and CAPS!!! I gave you what you wanted and i layed it out like success is about 5 minutes away. Do as I do and Front page is yours!!!”
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