The Digg Layout
Digg's registration page
If you want to go beyond reading the homepage stories, here's a breakdown of the primary actions you'll take at Digg.com:
Register
Creating a Digg account takes only a few seconds. Once you
have an account, you can access all of the Web site's features and take
an active role in submitting and Digging stories.
Submitting a link to Digg is a streamlined process.
In the second step of submitting a story you must create a title and short description for the article.
Before submitting your story, you should specify what category it fits into.Browse and Digg
The Popular tab on Digg shows the stories that have received the most Diggs from users. Browse for stories within the Digg "Upcoming
Stories" queue, and let Digg know which stories you like by clicking the "Digg" button to the left of each story title. (Every story you Digg gets saved to your account for later viewing, so you end up with a running list of everything you've ever Dugg.) The more Diggs a story gets, the better its chances of making it to the homepage. You can also browse the queue by category.
Digg also has tabs that let you filter feeds into news stories, videos, images and podcasts. You can even customize the categories that show up in your Digg view. Interested in the tech industry, but don't give a fig about motorsports? No problem. Just click a few check boxes and Digg will filter your stories so that you get exactly what you want.
Comment
If you discover a story you find particularly interesting and have
something to add or would like to discuss it with other Digg users,
just click the "comments" link beneath the story description. You can
add your own comment at the bottom of the comments page.
Bury
As a Digg user, your help is appreciated in reporting duplicate stories
(not allowed), dead links, incorrect stories, oldness, lameness and spam
by clicking the corresponding link in the "problem" drop-down list
below each story description. When a story gets enough reports, or
"buries," it disappears from the Digg queue and only appears in search
results and user profiles.
Submit
Finally, you can post a story to the Digg queue
yourself and hope other users find it interesting enough to Digg it
straight to the front page. It's actually a lot of fun to see if your
story makes it. All you need to do is click "Submit a Story" on the
upper right-hand side of the homepage, do a keyword or URL search and,
if it appears your story hasn't been submitted yet, provide a title, a
link and a short description of the story you're posting.
It'll either get enough Diggs to move to the homepage or eventually
disappear if it doesn't get enough Diggs or it gets reported by
multiple users. In the next section, we'll look at special Digg features.
