Digg Love Is Not A Right

Within the Preamble to the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson wrote that citizens should have rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. No one owes you a spot on the front page of Digg. Fellow writer Joe Lewis suggested in his article, this article for example. I can't make things up, and more importantly I can't make you, dear reader, like them just because I think I deserve your praise. Digg may be discriminating on concepts its users and/or its human editors do not like. But it is a privately-owned site. I use it and am free to vote up or bury stories, and can even submit and comment on them too. Those who have run afoul of Digg's practices can't cry Constitutional violation just because, for example, Digg doesn't like SEO content. It's frustrating, certainly, but illegal? Probably not. No one had to like you in junior high school either, no one had to invite you to the best parties in college, no one had a mandate to hire you out of college into a $60k job with a company car unless you merited or deserved those things. Some people who enjoyed those benefits probably got them based on who they know. Digg works in similar fashion. It's just like being fourteen again. Hard work pays off more than complaining does. Scott at SEOmoz, for one, knows this. Look at what