Someone noticed 2 stories from the same website managed to get to the front page of digg.com, so he checked it out and found out, out of the first 24 diggs, 19 were identical “diggers” including founder [tag]Kevin Rose[/tag]. They were accused of being a “digg army”. And of course it was blogged.

Someone posted his blog entry on [tag]digg.com[/tag] and was immediately banned. Then the posted story received many diggs but never made it to the frontpage. One was even shoved into non-existence. This has raised many questions on the “democracy” of [tag]Digg[/tag] and especially on its founder, Kevin.

For those who are not so sure what is digg, it is a social news system where users submit news that they find online and let other users vote (which is call a digg) for the news that they think is worth to read. News that has popular diggs in an hour will make it to the front page.

And sometimes, sites that made it to the front page will get the [tag]digg-effect[/tag], where their website will crash because of too many visitors coming in from digg. That is why many of the website owners’ fantasy is getting his site on the frontpage of digg. Dig it?

So why is this news hot? Because digg claims they are using the power of democracy but this event will cause many diggers lose trust in them. Besides, digg.com is among the top (if not the top) contenders for best [tag]web 2.0[/tag] model.

I love digg. Most of my blog entries are sourced from there. Man I hope Kevin will sort this out honestly!

Forevergeek.com on Digg Army

Digg Corrupted on Digg.com