Pronet Advertising is running a column this morning about stories being buried by Digg. It is interesting, so we decided to go look and break down the last 10,000 stories by why they were buried by Digg.

It works out like this:

Lame 3159
Duplicate 1552
Inaccurate 1129
Spam 3912
Other 248

The Chart is shown below

Not that we mind having Spam buried, what is interesting is the category “Lame” that makes up 32% of the reason why a story was buried by Digg. Depending on the viewpoint, yes some stories are lame, but that is part of the fun of “Citizen Journalism” some stories are going to be lame, but they are someone’s thoughts that they want to share.

While we are not sure how the Lame category works, it is still interesting to note that of the four stories that Techwag had buried 1 was inaccurate, 1 was a duplicate, and 2 were in the “lame” category. As a percentage, we have 286 posts, with 4 being buried that we know of, or roughly 1.3% of all our posts have been buried by Digg.

This is not something we are going to get worried about, mostly because the stories are still in the system, they still show up under our profile, they will just never make the main page of Digg. Not something that we are all that worried about, while it would be nice, it is something that “Citizen Voting” will take care of. If the story is worthy, the users at Digg will vote it to the top page.

Interesting numbers though, and we would still like to know more about the “Lame” Category.

Data for this article was pulled at 0700 on 15 May 2007 from Digg Spy, if anyone wants or needs the raw data, we will make it available upon request so that others can do the same thing.