Well Duh! Of course that site is going to have problems given the way it is set up. Forevergeek is there with a nice writeup. What’s funny is that even the digg founders are spamming digg.
On the bottom it notes who has dugg an article, and it lists them in order. Confounding as it was, the two beforementioned stories had the same sixteen people digg the story in a row. So the 7th digger of one article (Insomn1a) was the 7th digger of the other article. In fact, removing bribera’s digg of one article showed that the first nineteen diggs of each article were identical. What made this really interesting was that the 17th digger was none other than Kevin Rose, aka celebrated creator and founder of Digg.
Hilarious! Freaking rookies.
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[…] Quadszilla posted on his blog SeoBlackHat a link to a great article posted on ForeverGeek.com titled “Digg Corrupted: Editor’s Playground, not User-Driven Website”. The author writes I’ve read that Digg gets anywhere from 500,000 to 800,000 readers a day. 16 (or 19) identical diggs for two articles by the same author? 22 of the first 24 diggers being being the same for both articles? Somehow I don’t think that is a coincidence. […]
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Well Q, you know the expression. Absolute power, corrupts absolutely. How long could you really expect a “democracy” like this to last?
Aristotle said “Republics degrade into Democracies and then Democracies turn to Tyrannies.”