Accusations persist that a small group of users dominate the promotion of stories that reach the front page, but Digg is fighting back against perceptions of being controlled.
Digg's Friends feature have surfaced from time to time. They all highlight the same point - that a very small group of users have come to hold control of what appears on the Digg front page. For the non-tech absorbed reader, an appearance on the front page of Digg generally means a flood of incoming traffic to one's website for a short period of time. Being promoted to the front of Digg where thousands of users will try to visit a given article has proven to deliver so much traffic that destination servers get crushed by the demand. That "Digg effect" has made placement on the front page a desirable commodity for many. It has also led to complaints about how stories get promoted. One Digg user going by the handle of Jesusphreak
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