Key Point 5: Read for yourself: Digg Army: Right in Line Digg Corrupted:...

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?

Digg, not democracy after all.

Q: Key Point 2: To cut the story short -- a blog got banned...

To cut the story short -- a blog got banned for exposing the so-called Digg Army which abuses the system.

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.

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Abe Olandres

Abe is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of YugaTech with over 20 years of experience in the technology industry. He is one of the pioneers of blogging in the country and considered by many as the Father of Tech Blogging in the Philippines. He is also a technology consultant, a tech columnist with several national publications, resource speaker and mentor/advisor to several start-up companies.

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14 Comments

J. Angelo Racoma says:

20 years ago

🥉 Bronze🏆1

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?
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ade says:

20 years ago

Oh, my… I certainly hope that it doesn’t mean the end of Web 2.0
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Kates says:

20 years ago

🥉 Bronze🏆1

I can see slashdot fans smirking in one corner.
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AhmedF says:

20 years ago

Bang: http://forevergeek.com/news/responding_to_kevins_nonresponse_post.php
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mjerome says:

20 years ago

sorry off topic…

are minors allowed to attend iBlog summits? interesting kasi eh :D
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Tom S4lami says:

20 years ago

New story has been posted on Digg army vanishing:
http://digg.com/technology/Digg_Disappearances_Official_
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