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Stripping out every story except that one, we can start to focus in on some interesting details about the story, specifically: how long have the people who’re digging this story been members of Digg? If we keep the horizontal axis (time of a digg) as it is, and the color of each dot (length of membership in Digg) as is, but change the vertical axis to the time after the story was submitted that a person joined the site, a telling picture emerges:
In the first 12 hours of the story being on Digg, 164 out of the 829—just under 20%—Diggs on the story came from people who had joined Digg after the story was submitted, in a pretty regular pattern. It looks like the post, which contained “Click here to add your own comment and counter the debunkers,” brought a large number of people to the site specifically to digg this story.
