1) Have a front page story
Perhaps one of the greatest and most popular achievements on Digg is when you submit a story that ends up on the front page. You feel somehow reinvigorated. Those twenty stories that you've submitted beforehand are suddenly forgotten about, as you bookmark your own story and watch the number of Diggs shoot up.
2) Have a front page story where the content is yours
How do you improve on getting a front page story? When the story is content that you yourself have created. Sure, who wouldn't like to be responsible for submitting one of the most popular stories of all time, but how much better does it feel when people are digging something that you're responsible for? You're a celebrity now! For the next 12 hours, at least.
3) Rack up 1000 diggs for a comment
The Digg1000 club is pretty exclusive. They're harder to find than a Wii. If you've got over 1,000 diggs for a comment, consider yourself on excellent terms with a huge majority of the Digg community. You've either made an extremely valid point, usually at the very start of a story's comment thread, or, you've said something hilarious. Either way, you'll go down in history.
Only one* person has applied to the Digg2000 club as of yet.
4) Get Kevin Rose to reply to your comment
As if having been touched by the grace of God himself, a reply from Kevin Rose is about as honourable as you can get. You feel respected, important, dugg. Of course it could be the complete opposite and you've been a total idiot and Kevin's here to show you who's boss. Either way, you've got his attention.
5) Get your story featured on diggnation
This is a two for one in some ways. Firstly, you get your story featured. That alone is great. You suddenly have an even bigger audience watching whatever it is you've submitted. But, secondly is the fact that either Kevin or Alex is about to say your username. You've just heard someone say your username. A username that's only ever been read on screen. But here, someone is actually saying it out loud and it's Kevin/Alex nonetheless. Those people who laughed and scratched their heads at your username are now cowering at your importance. Vindication is at hand.
6) Be responsible for a new meme
Mark this one under 'near impossible'. Whether it be "im in ur..." or ASCII of ATHF, no one really knows who was truly responsible for actually introducing the world to such legendary phrases. There's quite a few about, but can anyone really claim they were the ones who started it off? By starting a new meme, your name may not live on forever, but your wise words will.
7) Get 50,000 profile views
Let's face it, a Digg profile isn't the most important or useful of features and usually only exists for personal recollection of how many stories you may have dugg. But for some lucky people, others take so much of an interest in what they've said that they simply have to find out more information about that person. Most people's profile views are in the low thousands, but for some, they skyrocket into five and sometimes six figures. If you've got a few thousand profile views, consider yourself one of Digg's most interesting people.
8) Get mistaken for a girl
Almost as rare as starting a new meme, except not so desirable. Perhaps the best example of this unfortunate addition to the list is geekchic, who has many a time been mistaken for a girl due to his name and has managed to rack up nearly 10,000 profile views because of it. Chic means stylish. It does not mean someone with breasts.
9) Have 100 friends
Most people don't visit Digg to make friends. So, if you've taken the time to actually list 100 people as interesting enough that you want to know when they've dugg something, then you're obviously quite a curious person. Even Kevin only has 76.
10) Have 10,000 people befriend you
If you've somehow managed to do all of the above then this one should be easy. Only the most well known of diggers will ever have the honour of having so many people see their digging habits. At 946 pages long, adding up to 28,380 people, someone certainly has a lot of love. If just half that many people befriend you, consider yourself ready to die, for you've truly lived the Digg experience.
*Found another? Let me know.
