There is a great article on Kuro5hin, Why Digg Failed.

Some interesting theories about the possible downfall, and how it is not necessarily being caused by the community members ‘gaming’ the system, but rather that it has become an opaque playground for the editors.

Here are a few links with interesting information and theories:

Digg Corrupted: Editor’s Playground, not User-Driven Website
Suspicious Digging
ZDNet Not Immune To The “Bury Brigade”

Digg has always been about popularity, and marketing an idea to the teeming masses of the internet. It should be updated to react to the merit of an item, rather than the popularity of the participants, and the inner workings of the system should be opened up for review.

February 16th, 2007 by Jeremy Sisson | Trackback