This is an experience I had with submitting my one and only article on Digg. It was a political news article, but I will leave the exact article and my user name over there out of it.
When I submitted the article, first I searched for the URL like the site suggested. I did not see it in the list, so I happily constructed my summary, chose a category, and submitted it. Much to my chagrin I noticed that the same article had already been submitted an hour or two ago. I must have missed it in the search results. So, I buried my own submission as a duplicate article, submitted my digg of the other article, left a comment, and left the site.
About a week later I went back, and much to my surprise I found that my submission of the article had been made popular with nearly 3700 diggs. The other submission was buried by another user for being a duplicate article and dropped off the site with 60-70 diggs.
The moral of the story, as the title of this post indicates, is that the quality of the article summary matters on Digg. On so many submissions over there, all I see is some flippant comment only marginally related to the topic of the article. What is much more useful as an article summary is a restatement of the thesis of the article and one or two supporting comments.
This post may also be useful.
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