Digg

Digg is a place for people to discover and share content found on the web. From the biggest online destination to the most obscure blog, Digg surfaces the best stuff as voted on by our users. You won’t find editors at Digg — we’re here to provide a place where people collectively determine the value of content. In doing so, we’re changing the way people consume information online.

If you encounter a bug, abusive behavior or other problem on the site, please use our Contact page to let us know what’s happening — Digg’s support team is available to make sure the community’s concerns are heard and responded to quickly.

Digg is organized into groups of categories based on topics. First, go to the homepage, where you’ll find the best of the best according to the Digg community. From there, click around on some of the topics listed at the top (Technology, World & Business, etc.) and you’ll see the top stories in each individual category.

If you’re more of the get in early type, check out our expansive Upcoming section for stories that haven’t been promoted yet. You can also sort content by News, Images, and Videos.

My News is selected based upon the people you choose to follow, the stories you like to read (Dugg or commented on by Digg users you follow), and the stories that are trending across the entire Digg community.

My News is one of the new features we’re most excited about in the new Digg. This is where you can get a personalized news experience filtered by your friends, the people you like, and the sources you trust for content. One of the reasons we created My News is because we found that how relevant or interesting an article is to you is directly related to how much you trust where it came from. News means different things to different people, but generally articles are interesting because the story was recommended by your friend, came from a blogger you really like, or a source you really trust.

If you want the “classic” Digg experience, Top News is the Digg you know and love. This is the global zeitgeist of popular content on the web as voted by the Digg community. While My News can deliver trusted news from mainstream and small publishers alike, Top News will still highlight the spirit of the Digg community.

Currently, there is no way to prevent someone from following you on Digg.com. However, if you discover abusive behavior from someone following you, please use our Contact page to notify our Support team.

For the time being, please contact us to report a user. Please provide the user’s username and any relevant links.

You’ll need to contact us from the email address associated with your username so we can take a look into your account history.

For the time being, you’ll need to contact us to have your account closed. Please note that your account’s submissions and comments will not be removed, per our Terms of Use (see section 6).

Never fear – we (the people at Digg) never see any of your personal information when we connect to one of these services. All connections are handled via the respective service’s API. Each service will request your explicit permission before providing us with the information we need to see if any of your connections or friends also have accounts on Digg. Once we’ve received that information, you can choose which of your friends you’d like to follow on Digg.

Well, that depends. If you’d like to maintain more than 1 account for business or personal use, that’s fine. However, please don’t use multiple accounts to Digg the same content – that goes against the spirit of our community.

Yep. Most of your activity on Digg is public (except for hides and reports). Since Digg is crawled by search engines, your Digg activity is crawled as well.

If the email address you used when registering is out of date, contact us and we’ll do our best to get you set back up.

Yes, you may manage which notification emails (or on-site messages) you receive by logging in and heading over to your settings.

Username changes are done manually by our Support team. But first, make sure your preferred username is not already in use. Just log out and go to the registration page (click “Join Digg!”), where you can enter the new username you’d like in the form and tab to the next field to test its availability. Then you can request a username change by getting in touch with us via our Contact form (registered email address is required for security and privacy reasons).

If you vote down a comment, the comment will be buried and a “Report” link will appear. Comments with sufficient number of Reports are subject to further review by our Support team. You’re also welcome to contact us with the direct comment URL and we’ll take a look.

Once a story has been submitted to Digg, it is dedicated to the public domain under the Creative Commons Zero Public Domain Dedication according to our Terms of Use. We do reserve the right to remove content that is determined to be in violation of our Terms of Use at any time and at our discretion.

Please contact us to have us make changes to a story. Be sure to include the Digg URL of the story you want to edit as well as the updated title, category, or description. Please note, we can only edit submissions at the request of the original submitter, so please request story changes from your registered email address.

Easy! Check out our Tools for publishers for more info.

Submitting duplicate stories is definitely not cool, so we ask folks to Digg the original story instead of submitting a duplicate. Of course, there will be similar stories from different sources that are submitted to Digg. In those cases, we let our users determine whether a story is a duplicate or if it offers a fresh perspective.

While it might be tempting to hurl back an insult, that just adds fuel to the fire so let us deal with abusive commenters. If someone is being lame, grab the comment permalink (right click on the timestamp beneath the commenter’s name and choose “copy link”), contact us with the link and we’ll look into the situation. Check out our Community Guidelines for a bit more info.

Digg does not host content, we only link to already-existing content on the web. If you don’t have a place to post your story, we recommend that you create a blog, many of which are free, and then submit your link to Digg.

Part of the fun of submitting content to Digg is writing your own creative titles and descriptions to help catch the eyes of fellow Digg users. But a line is crossed when the title/description is editorialized to the point of it being untrue. This is known as “story hijacking.” Users who engage in this behavior are subject to an account ban.

This may be due to a canonical URL. Due to system limitations on our side, we require canonical URLs to point to non-dynamic URLs. You can think of this as a URL that can't have components removed and still point to the same resource.

We do not allow users to submit exact URLs to help avoid duplication of content. It’s possible that you’re submitting the basic URL and not a specific page. Please submit the most direct link to your content and it should pass our duplicate checker.

It depends. The promotion or burying of stories is managed by an algorithm developed by Digg, and there is no specific threshold of Diggs or buries required to promote or bury a story. Instead, our algorithm takes several factors into consideration, including (but not limited to) the number and diversity of Diggs, buries,the time the story was submitted and the topic.

Our algorithm takes several factors into consideration, including (but not limited to) the number and diversity of Diggs, user reports, the time the story was submitted and the topic. Though we cannot go into further detail about the algorithm, we can say that one of the keys to promotion is the element of diversity, as mentioned above. Without diversity, a story will not be promoted. This is to help ensure promotable content will be interesting to the wide spectrum of users that follow our Top News page and not just the same ring of users who Digg up content.

Digg is a social media site by definition, so sharing a certain amount of information is important. Your Diggs, submissions and comments are all important contributions to the Digg community.

Unfortunately, Digg has no direct control over the amount of time that it takes for an external site to update profile information, so the length of the delay may vary.

This can be found at the top navigation pane next to your profile icon. Just click on the arrow and you will find the Logout button in the drop-down menu.

DiggAds is a new advertising platform that provides an interactive advertising experience for the user; you can Digg the ads you like and bury those you don't. Through your participation, successful ads will be shown more often and unsuccessful ads will get voted out of rotation. DiggAds function separately from user submitted Digg content.

We won’t even pretend that we’re able to see into your brain, so if we missed anything, feel free to contact us and ask away.

Digg currently supports Firefox 3, Internet Explorer 7 & 8, Google Chrome 3 and Safari 4. Other browsers and version may work but we cannot guarantee the results…especially with beta versions.