document updated 15 years ago, on Mar 20, 2009
The conservative community begins to have influence on Digg
The conservative community begins to have influence on Digg
20 March 2009
Some on the right are trying to ramp up their presence on social media sites, in response to Obama's win, and the online enthusiasm that helped propel him.
Digg is one place this is starting to happen. Here is a list of prominent stories where conservatives have been able to bury many far-left comments.
It's true that story voting is much more important than comment voting, but comment voting is the only objective metric we have for knowing when the tipping point happens, when conservatives are able to get majority control.
This majority control, however, is limited to specific stories. The common traits are that 1) the title isn't obviously conservative (
to some readers), and 2) the story doesn't get enough votes to get the attention of liberals — above a certain score, people will read it regardless of title. Both mean that liberals avoid the story while conservatives are attracted to it.
Stories where neither side can get the upper-hand, but that nonetheless demonstrate the power of the conservative voting bloc:
How are conservatives able to find the lower-scoring stories that liberals haven't noticed?
The #DiggCons twitter stream is one way (DiggCons.newsplaton.coom hosts a version with anti-spam features).
Another way to find these stories is to follow other prolific conservative users:
- heavy poster+commenter
- heavy poster
- heavy commenter