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6 out of ten stories in the new links section can be predicted by whether the top users vote on them. Really, only 6 out of 10? This seems extremely low given the claims of gaming (and if I'm understanding it correctly).

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How is 6/10 extremely low?

Well, people claim that digg is entirely run by the top users from what I understand, and if only 6/10 stories that make it to the front page are predicted by the top users voting patterns, theres not much to that claim right?

EDIT: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/top-100-digg-users-control-56-of-...

If you look at the top users most of them submit thousands of stories.

For example mklopez[1] submitted 16k stories were only 10% hit the frontpage and LtGenPanda[2] submitted 2,481 with a 42% popular ratio. You can see this stats at the bottom right of the user profile on Digg.

[1]: http://digg.com/users/mklopez

[2]: http://digg.com/users/LtGenPanda

I think nickb is still the top submitter to HN, there are about 4250 submissions from him, runner up is cwan with 3750 and then edw519 with 3180, I wonder what the top 3 on digg looks like.

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