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"Promoted Stories" myth needs to end. It wasn't the case, there was a severe bug whereby a Regular Expression only matched RSS content. The Regular Expression a
by SupermanScott 14y ago
"Promoted Stories" myth needs to end. It wasn't the case, there was a severe bug whereby a Regular Expression only matched RSS content. The Regular Expression acted as a gateway into the Popular Algorithm. I worked at Digg and I fixed that bug.
It wasn't noticed before launch because we echoed the v3 popular stories into the beta version of v4.
Digg was never paid for stories hitting the frontpage. And for all the flack it gets for this myth, it should have been.
- laberge 14y agoWell the fact rests, the community generally believed that there was a ton of promoted stories because, you guys never told anyone otherwise or did a poor job communicating. And im certain promoted stories did exist, I remember them clearly marked as that.
- SupermanScott 14y agoDigg ads existed that were placed in the feed at slot 3 and 14 which were introduced in v3: http://about.digg.com/blog/ads-you-can-digg%E2%80%A6or-bury http://about.digg.com/blog/ads-you-can-digg%E2%80%A6or-bury They were ads that were pieces of content. Digg was in front of this trend with promoted tweets / stories.
- nowarninglabel 14y agoIf you don't mind me asking, how good a job do you think John N. did? Did the buck stop with him on this engineering project?