There’s been some “conspiracy theory” going around with Digg and one of its founder, Kevin Rose.
To cut the story short — a blog got banned for exposing the so-called Digg Army which abuses the system.
Well, any system is prone to abuse and gaming, but co-founder Kevin Rose was allegedly involve. Talk about gaming your own creation.
Stories abound and people Digging these stories are getting their accounts banned and their IP addresses blocked. Now that could really spark people’s curiosity.
Read for yourself:
- Digg Army: Right in Line
- Digg Corrupted: Editor’s Playground, not User-Driven Website
- Digg being abused
- The trouble with DIGG
- Digg Army at Binary Bonsai
- Corruption? The House of the Digg Elite
Twitter: jangelo
says:
Here’s a “buried” entry on the DIGG.com site itself:
http://digg.com/technology/Digg_Corrupted
And here’s my take, of course:
http://racoma.net/archives/is-diggcom-not-the-user-drive-news-site-it-was-hyped-up-to-be/
Does this signal the demise of one of the bastions of Web 2.0?
The Dirt on Suspicious Digging at Digg.com
It seems that being one of the top 500 visited websites in the world has gone to Digg.com’s head. Users are reporting that some articles that are submitted are being dugg by the same users in the same exact order to up their digg rating to get th…
Oh, my… I certainly hope that it doesn’t mean the end of Web 2.0
I can see slashdot fans smirking in one corner.
Bang: http://forevergeek.com/news/responding_to_kevins_nonresponse_post.php
sorry off topic…
are minors allowed to attend iBlog summits? interesting kasi eh
New story has been posted on Digg army vanishing:
http://digg.com/technology/Digg_Disappearances_Official_
[...] Oh wait, any new social news and bookmarking site now becomes a clone of Digg? Besides, was Digg ever an original idea? Digg was just a mix and match of the best features of del.icio.us and Slashdot. At least at Netscape, any attack/criticism on their site still gets the frontpage. Last time I heard, any submissions to Digg that’s anti-Digg are buried to oblivion. [...]