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Digg Revolution: Call Made for Blog Posts From Users

by JD Rucker | October 10, 2008 at 04:05 pm

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For the last couple of years, Digg has seen its ups and downs. They have gone through two previous revolts: 1 that resulted in them allowing the HD-DVD codes to be published on the site and one that initiated a direct response from Jay Adelson and Kevin Rose before the revolt could officially begin.

This time, it appears all that Digg can do is sit back and let it happen.

Sunday, October 12 has been marked as the day that users (or non-users) who have taken exception to some of Digg's recent activities can unify and blog about their concerns in unison.

On Sunday, October 12, we are asking for blog posts. Digg and the media has a tendency to ignore individual posts, but how can they ignore 10? 20? 50? 100? If you have a blog and an opinion about Digg, we are asking for you to:

1) Post on your blog on Sunday.
2) Post the link to it here.

The trouble all started a few weeks ago when Digg declared that they were cracking down on the use of scripts.

Digg monitors for script/bot activity globally across all our site pages. In addition to that, our development team has completed some improvements that will be rolled out this week. These changes will be more transparent, warning and preventing the users from using these scripts/bots. This will only affect a very small group of people, and the overwhelming majority of the Digg community won’t notice these changes. As always, all content on Digg is subjected to the Digg promotion algorithm, which requires a unique diverse pool of Diggers before promoting content to the homepage.

What followed was a mass banning of over 100 active users and countless inactive users. Since then, the Recommendation Engine has changed, 2 more rounds of bannings have taken place (including the #3 and #5 most prolific users) and fear has engulfed the top end of the community.

People are scared. Angry. Confused.

Users are getting banned and there seems to be very little chance that they will get unbanned. The recommendation engine has limits now. The quality of the front page has been questionable at best.

It's time to act.

What's next? We'll see after the blog posts. Expect some of them to be posted on NowPublic.

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StandUpToRacism

at 18:34 on October 10th, 2008

At the risk of getting on Nowpublic.com's bad side (again), isn't it just a wee bit hypocritical that they would permit this story criticizing digg.com... when they wouldn't permit a story criticizing themselves?