The top 100 digg users control 56% of the content on the front page

When people talk about digg, they are often led to believe that the home page is typical of valuable and important information, because it is based on the opinion of the general public. But the numbers suggest otherwise - more than 20% of all the information recommended to the front page comes from an elite group of 20 people. digg is not ashamed to hide this fact, and their user ranking page shows this statistic quite frankly :

The top 20 users contributed a total of 2,560 posts, of which 5,275 were promoted to the first page - 20.81% to be precise. As measured by digg, many of these users have achieved a page promotion rate of 30% or higher, meaning that one out of every three messages they submit will be promoted to the front page. Some users (notably DarkHack and OsterMayer) have achieved a 60 percent page lift rate.

A reasonable reality is that the top 100 digg users contributed 14,249 front page messages, or 56.41% were recommended to the front page. At digg, an elite group is controlling the front page content. Rather than say that Rather than representing the views of the general public, digg mainly represents content, but it actually represents the thoughts of some elites.

There's certainly nothing wrong with that - it's not a secret or a problem, and it doesn't affect digg's popularity, popularity, or importance. However, it should be realized that a lot of businesses and guys are trying to promote their content through digg, and many people who use digg are not aware of this. Like a college fraternity, digg is worth getting to know people around you.

original: Top 100 Digg Users Control 56% of Digg’s HomePage Content