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Years ago when Digg was in v2 and v3 I bookmarked (or rather: hoarded) hundreds of Digg links. Each Digg page would contain a link to the actual story (years ago).
Is there a way I can find these story links if I have the old Digg links?
Here are two example links:
http://digg.com/news/gaming/Flash_Circle_TowerDefence
http://digg.com/news/entertainment/5_Movies_More_Complicated_Than_Inception
The exact process is unknown and has changed much over time. Votes from power users will generally have more weight then votes from non power users (At least it used to be this way) also collectively votes from common friends will have less weight. So 10 Votes from 10 people that are all friends will not have the same weight as 10 votes from 10 random people. Bury's will also hurt the chance of becoming popular. The system also looks at the voting history of users, even if they are not friends if multiple users have a history of voting for the same items it will also lesson the weight of their vote. It also seems that too many votes very quickly together after being posted will also affect it negatively. Comments left will aslo probably help.
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Best Answer
Try inputting the Digg URL to the Wayback Machine.
It looks like they have the Digg homepage archived going back 10 years, so they may have cached copies of your links.