Digg Riot
Looks like the Digg crowd is rioting.
This will be very interesting to see how it all plays out. Will it be the straw that breaks Digg’s back?
Update: Gotta respect Kevin Rose for taking a stand and doing what’s right. Well done!
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Digg Riot In Progress!
Many bloggers report Digg riot today. Check out a screen shot on the personal blog of Cameron Olthuis. It sounds like lots of diggers were disturbed by something digg did. This looks like people’s revolution of the Soviet Union! Interesting. He…
Do we know what exactly happened with Digg that frustrated so many people?
Is this the first major backlash in the Social Media space? I wonder if this is the whole community or the 5-10% of most devoted users that are leading the revolt.
S Yanoff - Here’s a good post that sums up the entire events.
Blake - This is definitely the first one of this magnitude. The users completely took control of Digg. It wasn’t the whole community but I think there was more than 5-10% involved. There were a lot of users that sided with Digg and didn’t agree with what was happening. But the number of Diggs for stories even in the upcoming section made it obvious that a large number of users were participating.