My problem with Digg.com

I have been a digg user almost from the time it started. My user named was banned because I posted a link twice in my comments. The nerds all had a fit and I guess it was considered some form of abuse. Anyways, I opened another account. SO FUCK YOU NERDS! Get a girlfriend or something!

I loved Digg a lot in the beginning. The thought of user submitted articles all on the front page because of what was submitted was interesting. But something happened. The users figured out a way to cheat the system.

Ok so we got this straight, that digg.com is or was a social bookmarking website where only the most popular submitted stories make it to the front page. But it has turned to something different. It is NOT about the most popular stories. Now it's about the most popular users and their so called digg-friends. It seems that now people only digg stories based on the friends that dugg them. If you are a user that doesn't have friends added to the list, you're NOT going to get your submitted story dugg. This is why you see the same user names time and time again. These people are NOT reading the stories they are just using the "trigger finger" on the people that dugg their stories.

If you recall the mrbabyman submissions where multiple stories were dugg within a matter of seconds, why? Because the faster he diggs those people, the faster they digg him thus propelling him to the front page.

This is the sort of activity that is making digg fall apart. Everyone deserves an equal chance to get to the front page. But when you have people monopolizing the front page, how is that any different from say, CNN's front page? Might as well hire mrbabyman as an editor or a writer because he and multiple people pulling this same crap, are dictating what goes to the front page. Sometimes I wonder who dugg some REAL LAME shit to make it to the front page. Wonder no more. If you don't play the game, no matter how interesting your article is, it wont get dugg just because you don't add friends so that you can trade diggs. That's just real sad.

I know this isn't something that can be "caught" because no TOS is being broken, But this activity is unethical. It's like buying a trophy, not earning it, but falsely claiming you won it. Until people start acting like real diggers, digg is going to continue to decline in quality.