As you can tell from my blog, I’ve been a bit distracted by Digg this weekend and I was becoming a big fan of the service. However, I was just reading the comments on one of my posts, “IE7: What does it have that Firefox doesn’t?” that had made it onto Digg and I noticed a comment from Lynn:
“Seems that the Anti-MS crowd got this removed from the homepage. These people are going to kill digg”
At first I thought this can’t be true, but I checked and she was right – it has been removed from the homepage and also doesn’t come up in digg’s search engine.
It made me realise that this had also happened to an article that I had dug myself “Serial Diggers and Gaming Digg” which got enough Diggs to get onto the homepage, but then also disappeared from the system.
Surely, Digg aren’t removing articles that they don’t like, or that portrays them or certain companies in a bad way? What’s the point of having a voting system and letting the users decide what goes on the homepage if they can over-rule it anytime they don’t like the content?
I think my love affair with Digg is beginnig to wane. I’m still going to Digg this article as I want to see what other Digg users think. I’m guessing though that it will probably get pulled once the Digg police see it.
