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Microsoft Story 2 has been buried and discarded automatically by Digg algorithm; it is now nowhere to be found either in upcoming, newest, most popular or least popular story pages. So it is quite apparent that from now onwards the only diggers visiting and digging this story are the story submitter’s mutual friends who were sent a shout requesting Digg.

The story appeared to be progressing normally through the Most Popular upcoming stories pages. But it was automatically buried by the Digg algorithm after it had garnered 104 diggs and at which point it was supposed to feature on Page 1 of most popular upcoming stories page.

Possible reasons -
1) Digg failed to determine that story was duplicate and diggers might have buried story. Ajaxonomy Buryrecorder could not capture any buries.
2) At the time of posting the story had a total number of 127 diggs out of which 118 are from submitters mutual friends and the comments section shows only 10 comments, which also meant that the story gathered only 9 natural diggs. The story was shouted to over 500 friends and was aggressively campaigned.

Reason 2 appears a much more logical explanation why the story might have been automatically buried and discarded by Digg. The story gathered a lot of diggs from submitter’s mutual friends and that too in a very short span of time, a classic trigger.