Does Autobury Exist?

[JD Rucker]

I know what I think. What are your thoughts?

[Gerard Barberi]

It exists. Stopping a submit from a particular domain at the initial submission process would be too visible. You'd know this domain was blocked and you could fight it. Having a bot crawl the queue looking for a particular domain, and then removing it. is a nice covert way of blocking disagreeable (Anti-Digg articles) content. It's harder to prove and harder to fight.
Although, there may be a chance that they will stop. They know we can see it and it's only a matter of time before we can prove it. The post "2 Diggs 1 Cupp" was initially removed from the queue around 100 diggs. Muhammad left a comment regarding censorship on it and I shouted the story to as many users on my friends' list as possible (as I'm sure other users did as well). At 150 diggs, I saw it put back into the queue and onto the hot list (on all topics). The admins may be realizing that there fiddling with stuff is becoming too visible. They know we take screenshots and we record in any way possible their tracks.

[p0ss]

Yeah, i think something like an autobury exists. I'm not completely convinced its digg doing it tho. Anyone with an agenda some gear and some knowhow could rig up a botnet capable of burying on commend. I'm not gonna start pointing fingers, if you needed some suspects you'd only have to look at what kind of thing is getting buried. I started to notice the burying at the same time as a marked increase in trolls. Again, I'm not going to make any unprovable claims, but i think you can guess what I'm getting at.

[Gerard Barberi]

Some of us believe it is Digg. The autobury list is our reference to a virtual list of Domains that are buried on sight by a "bot" crawling the queue. One of JD's blogs is on there. A domain earns its spot by posting a negative article about Digg. It's not spam, so Digg would not want to prevent anyone from submitting from that domain -- that would raise questions. A bot crawls the queue and if it finds any articles posted from that domain, it squashes it there and removes it form the queue so no one can see it. Hence the name autobury. It doesn't matter what the content of the article is. The post still exists as you can access it by direct URL, but it won't show up in the upcoming sections.

As for other things like political agendas, that would probably be organized rings of users. Enough bury's from users can also remove posts from the queue or at least prevent them from being promoted to the FP.