Getting into the Top One Percent on Digg

I recently wrote about the Digg Elite and the 80-19-1 rule. In that post I mentioned that I had made it into Digg’s top 1 percent but didn’t mention specifics about where the 1 percent cutoff is. So out of curiosity I have calculated what it takes to barely move into the top 1 percent of Digg users based on Popularity (rank of amount of stories submitted that made it to the homepage) Since there are currently 361,584 registered users on Digg one would need to be one of the top 3,615 users for a given metric to be in the top 1 percent. Looking at the top Digg users section we can see the the current user that is ranked 3615 has had two stories make it to the homepage. Digg apparently uses profile views as the secondary measure when there is a tie and since there are hundreds of users with a popularity score of 2 we would have to have at least 2524 profile views to guarantee our spot in the top 1 percent if we only have a popularity score of 2. However, we could also just pass up all those users with a popularity score of 2 and get oursoulves a score of 3 to get in the top 1 percent. So in order to become a top 1 percent user one must obtain a popularity score of 2 and receive at least 2524 profile views or just obtain a popularity score of 3.