Techtites Vs The Digg Mafia - Who Won?
Yesterday evening a small war developed between the Digg Mafia who were determined to bury Ajay’s post ‘Why The Dig Mafia Will Cost Kevin Rose Milions‘, which had been submitted to Digg by Brajeshwar one of Digg’s top posters. Despite being submitted by Brajeshwar, the same Digg Mafia that Ajay discussed in his post tried every trick they knew to get the post buried.
However, Ajay and his supporters persevered and even though the Digg Mafia succeeding in burying the post, the post still received 274 diggs, which must be a record for a post that was buried once it hit around 15 diggs. (Albeit with some assistance from Reddit users).
What disappointed me the most was Digg’s role in the battle. Rather than acknowledging that the Digg Mafia who were clearly in the minority judging by the comments that were being left, were out of control, Digg didn’t re-instate the post despite several users emailing them to inform them of the actions of the Mafia.
In a way I’m glad that the post wasn’t re-instated, as although the Digg Mafia won this skirmish, I think Ajay and Techtites’ readers proved that Digg most certainly isn’t the the democratic system it claims to be.
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Comment by Avinio on 18 February 2007:
I’ve published today at Digg my story with them,
and this article were deleted after one hour with no explanation!
there is really nothing wrong in what i’ve wrote.
just told the real story, of a blogger, that publish everyday 1-2 articles,
submitted them to Digg, getting maybe 1-2 votes for each article,
and they decided i’m a spammer!
i sent them mail, and trying t ask what was the reason my domain were banned,
and they even didn’t answer.
that’s why i decided to publish that story,
that everyone will see what and how digg act with the people that help them to get this success they have today.
anyway, you can read the all article in my blog:
http://www.avinio.blogspot.com/2007/02/are-digg-bury-themselves.html
Comment by Ajay on 19 February 2007:
I’m going to write a follow up post on the same. The number of diggs has increased to over 300 as of now. The reddit count is above 250, which goes to prove that no matter how digg mafia tries, another site can prove them wrong.
This is indeed one of the rare cases where a buried post got dugg so highly!