The Slick Network

I have been signed up as a registered user of Digg since August 28, 2005, but I have been using Digg for much longer.  I love Digg.com and it is the site that I visit most often to find news and entertainment stories.  I try to contribute by writing up stories and submitting them, but I have to admit that most of the articles that I write up aren’t very well written. This is getting a little off the purpose of this story,so I will get back on track.  I was reading a story on the Digg Blog and it noted that Digg’s 2nd Anniversary was on December 2nd.  It also noted that Digg now has over 707,000  registered users.  I know that I wasn’t with Digg at the beginning, but I do remember Kevin Rose profiling Digg on the Screensavers/TechTv.  I checked out the site in the beginning when a story reached the front page with 10 Diggs, but I never really considered signing up as a registered user. Six months later, the site was beginning to expand at a rapid rate and I noticed that I started using it more and more often.  I was never Slashdot user because I enjoy technology, but I am more of a user than a technology industry type.  The early Digg users seemed to be much more hardcore “tech” people which was great because someone like myself could learn by reading comments and articles that they submitted.  As a registered user of Digg for just over a year now, I have found myself making the same mistakes that Digg purists hate…I have submitted duplicate stories, stories that were “Lame” , articles that had a “spammy” nature(never truly intended to be spam), and posting lame comments that just sounded like i didn’t know what I was talking about.  I never really utilize all of the cool features of Digg and I realize that I do not contribute by Digging or commenting on stories as much as I should.

I starting looking around and I saw that the Top Users category was moved to the bottom of the homepage.  I clicked on it and started looking at the first few pages and saw many usernames and avatars that looked familiar.  It got me wondering where I ranked on the list.  I was hoping to be at least somewhere around #500,000.  I went to my profile page and was surprised to see that I was # 5,193 . That sounded great to me because I really don’t have the best stats.  It seems to be rated mostly on profile views.

Currently, I have had 976 profile views, have dugg only 23 news or video items, submitted 20 stories or videos, had only two items promoted to the frontpage, and my popular story ratio is 10% .  Here is my profile page (and if you are wondering…it is MrSlick and not MrsLick), but don’t click it if you don’t want me to be even higher in the rankings. 

I know that #5,193 is not really something to write home about, but I was impressed that I ranked so highly on a site that is so useful to so many people. I am in no way trying to say that I see myself as a top user, I know that user # 5,193 doesn’t qualify me for that.  Where do you rank?  Post your ranking in the comments of this story on Digg.