It’s been one hell of a day at Digg, a user moderated news website. Trouble started when users posted a page that has code to unlock copy-protected DVDs. Administrators removed the links and suspended the accounts of users who posted the links.
Users revolted. Digg founder Kevin Rose finally posted on his blog
But now, after seeing hundreds of stories and reading thousands of comments, you’ve made it clear. You’d rather see Digg go down fighting than bow down to a bigger company. We hear you, and effective immediately we won’t delete stories or comments containing the code and will deal with whatever the consequences might be.
If we lose, then what the hell, at least we died trying.
Digg on,
Kevin
The New York Times wrote:
At one point, the entire front page of Digg contained nothing but stories about the DVD hack and Digg’s ban.
Read here (901am) and here (NY Times).
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May 2nd, 2007 at 11:40 pm
Turns out the culprit was sites like usersubmitter.com, where you pay to get your story “digged” to the front page of digg and vice versa (get paid to digg a story). But turns it was moderated well enough later on.
Don’t have the slashdot (?) post right now. Will see if its still in my history. Heard it really got out of hand.
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May 3rd, 2007 at 12:24 am
check out the doom9 forums
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