Similar to my post yesterday on Digg’s ranking algorithms, MaketingShift has a "condensed version of what Kevin Rose & Jay Adelson confirmed as being some of the core elements used in determining the ranking (could substitute relevance here) for a story on digg".

Again, I noticed that :

• Brand new users are like automatic penalties in the search engines (sandbox effect).
• Reputation plays a role. A positive reputation means you agree with the same person over and over again it’s a red flag
• They receive 4,000 - 5,000 stories submitted a day and it’s impossible to handle that kind of volume without having sophisticated algorithms running on the backend.

 Should be interesting if people who submit to Digg regularly will change their strategy or behavior, in any way,  based on what was disclosed.