I use Digg everyday. When I want to read up about the lesser reported stories from around the web, I turn to Digg. When I’m bored, I turn to Digg. When I’m working, I turn to Digg.

Yes. I am a Digg Junkie.

Like many others, I am guilty of getting caught up in the FP challenge. Everything I submit, I feel is FP quality. Why else would I submit it…

So, I find it very surprising when something I submit makes the FP, but gets promptly buried. It’s kinda like getting sucker-punched in the ribs when you weren’t looking. It stings a bit.

This happens quite frequently to me, especially whenever I submit a sports story to digg.

I realized my first week on digg that sports stories are incredibly easy to get to the front. I guess because of the way the digg algorithm is built, it just doesn’t take as many diggs to go popular.

Since, I watch alot of sports, it seems that submitting stories about sports is a good fit for me. So, I have made it my goal to make digg more sports conscious by submitting alot of sports stories.

So far, it’s been working out really well. Sports stories has effectively driven up my FP% and my overall digg ranking. (currently 286)

But, last nite my story about Barry Bonds & Why He Should Ask For Forgiveness made it to the front page, and was buried quicker than any story I’ve ever seen. It didn’t even make it to 100 diggs, before it was taken down.

This is a little embarrassing. This was a blow below the belt. The community of diggers… mostly Bury Brigade… buried my story before it even got to see the bright light known as the Digg Effect. But I don’t understand why.

Was it the overall hatred for Barry Bonds? Was the quality of the story below average? Or is it that a small percentage of diggers just bury sports stories, because…well, they’re sports-related?

I’m starting to think it’s the latter. Because everytime any sports story makes it to the FP, some jackass has to make this comment - “Buried. Who Cares About Baseball? It Sucks!”

I don’t understand why the digg community has this need to bury sports stories. It doesn’t make sense to me. Just because it doesn’t interest you as much as Ron Paul or the iPhone, why do diggers feel this overwhelming need to bury them?

Can anyone clue me in on why the Digg Community hates Sports?