yro.slashdot.org — Today two such stories were submitted so numerous that I had little choice but to post. The first claims that Digg is the editor's playground- it explains how a few users control Digg, and that it's not really the 'Democracy' that they claim it to be.
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notromdaApr 20, 2006
This is lame. Of course, now that it hit the front page, enough readers will mark it as such, which will only prove the point of the conspiracy theorists.
mrassmanApr 20, 2006
he was probably looking at the 'digg spy' page
simplogicApr 20, 2006
This is all speculation folks. I strongly doubt the men in black are behind burrying this story. This story got burried as a direct result of a bunch of Digg fanboys reporting it as inaccurate, even though there is no way to verify the accuracy of the story. Okay, I admit the 16 or whatever diggs by the exact same people in the exact same order really raises suspision, but again there is no way to prove or disprove that this site isn't completely user driven. Right now the issue which conerns me is that although a story could have 400+ diggs it could still get burried by a small percentage of people reporting it. Maybe a ratio should be implace for diggs to reports which calculates whether a story gets burried or not... maybe there is and we just don't know about it. Spooky.
nstern2Apr 20, 2006
<a class="user" href="http://digg.com/technology/Digg_Corrupted">http://digg.com/technology/Digg_Corrupted</a> Explain why that is not on the front page yet? Your logic would work if it weren't for that article.
warhorseApr 20, 2006
FTAO the digg team, things that you should be discussing in the next meeting.1) The digg user base hate stories being buried, if a story makes it to the front page it is because the user base like that story, you have got a very loyal user base but we are fickle, we will move elsewhere. Call me old fashioned but I am against censorship of all kind and I would imagine that most digg users will agree with me on that one. You need to stop worrying about the lawyers and start worrying about the users.2) digg.com is a very slow site and this is not being helped by all of these adverts that you have started to use, these ads are also spoiling the appearance of what has up to now always been a very cleanly laid out and well designed site.
umrgreggApr 20, 2006
Yes, it is off the frontpage. Another community concern has been digg-bombed.
tokyopimpApr 20, 2006
oops, how the hell did I do that
crosenblumApr 26, 2006
That makes sense