It seems absurd since the whole idea behind digg is that almost the entire community is user moderated. Stories make it to the front by getting dugg and ones that don't or get removed are ones that are reported.
Today I witnessed some rather odd activity on digg that made me wonder if digg is more top-level administration moderated than we may all think. Early this morning I submitted a riddle to digg. It was dugg very quickly and made the front page in about an hour. Swiftly the numbers rose to about 250 and then weird stuff started happening. Digg was spam attacked by someone still unknown, but likely koolaidguy (make sure you read the story). I submitted a digg about this since I felt it was major news to the digg community and I felt personally affected by being the top story on the front page that was spammed and the fact that the spammer used a play on my name for one the fake users that was created and used to spam.
I watched the digg numbers go up to 20. Not all that fast, but fast enough for that early on friday morning. I saw a comment on my story then:
Ignore them and they will go away - must be pretty boring, but then again maybe they are idiot savants who only know how to annoy diggers.
Ok, fair enough. Definitely a good point, but I still think such things are newsworthy. I saw two diggs disappear. 18 diggs then. I went to bed.
I woke up and after browsing a bit I got on digg and checked things out. My story was at 13 diggs. Now.. it's not all that common to see things get undugg, even less common to see 7 diggs leave a new story. The real kicker is that the story still listed seventeen diggers having dugg the story. 13 diggs.. 17 diggers. I checked the profiles of all the diggers and they all had the story listed under "all stories dugg". I don't think it was just a database indexing fluke.
Is digg trying to keep this kind of news out of the eyes of the public and particularly the rest of the major media? Was this part of a coverup operation to make sure they wouldn't be criticized again for a minor security flaw?
