We’ve been running a ton of digg campaigns, and using the Ajaxonomy Bury Recorder on all of them. In theory, it’s great. Using the digg spy feed, it watches for buries, and tells you how many buries a particular post has. Great in theory. We’ve been using it to watch different submissions and were shocked to find that many of our submissions were yanked from upcoming w/ zero buries according to ajaxonomy.
So…Ken Smith & I have been pretty pissed about the whole “digg nazi” deal. Then Ken decided we needed to run a test on the credibility of ajaxonomy. Bottom line – it doesn’t work.
We picked 5 random stories that had gone hot (not popular) so that we knew they had some exposure. We put them all on the bury recorder, and then we both buried them for specific reasons (spam, duplicate, general.) Between the 2 of us, we had 10 total buries to watch for. One was recorded by ajaxonomy – one. So, according to this test, ajaxonomy is sitting at ~10% accuracy.
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