How to write a top 10 list for Digg – Top 10 List revisited

April 18, 2007 at 3:18 am (bizarre, Fake News, News, Odd)


After much thought and some digging, we will investigate the top 10 “top 10” lists on Digg to determine what is the best approach to writing a diggable top 10 list.

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  1. 3,903 Diggs – Top 10 Magic Tricks Tutorials of all Time.
  2. 3,493 Diggs – Top 10 Child Actresses from 80s TV Shows Who Grew Up To Be Hotties
  3. 3,476 Diggs – Top 10 Firefox Extensions to Improve your Productivity
  4. 3,415 Diggs – Top 10 Dumbest Online Business Ideas That Made It Big Time.
  5. 3,392 Diggs – Top Ten Geek Quotes…plus more
  6. 3,345 Diggs – Blue Screen of Death Top 10 Images
  7. 3,304 Diggs – Top 10 Accidental Discoveries
  8. 2,999 Diggs – Top 10 Most Unusual Buildings
  9. 2,948 Diggs – Top ten reasons Geeks make good fathers
  10. 2,901 Diggs – Top 10 Orgasmic Positions for Women

OK, by now you have probably already clicked on some of the links, right? Intriguing aren’t they? Depending on your digg’a’tude.

Analysis of the list reveals a basic trend for DiggNation that will make some people InDiggnant:

#1 top 10 dugg is a magic tricks list. Geeks always love magic; computers are like magic; the internet is magic; having a girl friend is magic.

#2 top 10 sex — you can see the little duggers plundering their little Vienna sausages as they they load this web page.

#3 top 10 nerd topic. Only true pimple faced nerds salivate over Firefox extension lists — god get a life.

#4 top 10 is pure geek fantasy. Dumb idea, dumb luck, results in lots of $$$$ and then the geek can pay to have all the people that they don’t like beat up and get some hot prostitutes to act interested in their sunken chests.

#5 top 10 – need I say more?

#6 top 10 – only someone with carpal tunnel of his mouse finger would enjoy these.

#7 top 10 is another geek fantasy, based on the same reasons as #4 above.

#8 top 10 – I’m stunned by this one. Unless the buildings are shaped like dildos or boobs, I don’t understand this one. We will throw this one out or it will skew the curve.

#9 top 10 – another surprise? Geeks love to quote geeks so only other geeks can understand them. Kind of like ducks quacking in the mud hole and a goose comes by and they all quack how fat he is and his neck looks like a long turd.

#10 top 10 – Fantasy, pure 100% geek fantasy. The closest they will come to having sex with a real woman is by viewing top 10 list #2 and jacking themselves with their non-mouse hand so it feels like someone else is handling their tootsie roll.

Okay, so what have we learned about top 10 list success on Digg? Here are some suggested top 10 lists for digg:

  • Top 10 sexy women who are married to geeks.
  • Top 10 child stars who will be hotties in 2010 — or the top 10 pedophile hit list.
  • Top 10 ways to use magic to get laid.
  • Top 10 Buildings that look like women spreading their legs.
  • Top 10 ways to trick women into talking like a geek.

Well, anyway, I think you get it. Now go and Digg’em.

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