#dontgo @ Digg
Posted on Sunday, August 17th, 2008
The anti-free market crowd controls the content at Digg, so the chances of #dontgo related content hitting the front page of Digg are limited. That being said, it doesn’t hurt to at least submit #dontgo related articles as you come across them while surfing the web.
Digg, for those who are not familiar, is a site that was originally intended to be a “crowd-powered” news site. The idea was that users submit content, and the community decides which stories make it to the homepage. The problem, however, is that Digg has implemented a “bury” feature that essentually allows those who do not want free speech to reign on the Digg pages to shoot down any content they might disagree with, even if the story has plenty of votes to make it to the front page.
That, plus the fact that Digg has admitted to having moderators who manually review a lot of the stories being voted on makes Digg an anti Democratic style news site.
But when a site can send tens of thousands of visitors to any given URL, you simply cannot write it off as irrelevant.
Things to keep in mind when you come across interesting #dontgo stories…
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