Have you looked at Digg lately? No, have you really looked at Digg lately? If you have, then you will notice for example that there hasn’t been a popular story placed there for 4 days on the front page. Four Days!
What does that mean exactly? Back in the day, back in the Trible B Days (Before Being Banned), there were popular stories hitting the front page by the hour! Now, it takes better than 4 days to get a story to go popular? Incredible. I suspect the reason for this tremendous slow down on Digg is due directly to the Recommendation Engine Digg is so proud of. I think it’s a piece of crap and I feel like Kevin Rose et alhas tried to slip a smooth one over on the general internet public here. I firmly believe that Digg wanted to get rid of top producers to slow the process down on the Digg servers so they could harp the Recommendation Engine. How stupid.
By the way, have I mentioned I know for a fact there are still people on Digg running scripts? Perhaps Digg should look at the Top 50 Diggers again and analize more closely those people.
At any rate, Digg isn’t without warts. I just wish they would not act as though they are “holier than thou” when in fact, I think there are numerous issues with Digg. Much more now than before all of the banning. So if you don’t believe me, you can track how long a story has been submitted before it goes popular. There is much wrong in Digg land.
