Is Digg Alienating Its Top Users Like eBay?

said the updates were to "ensure that all Diggers have a fair chance at getting their submitted stories promoted to the homepage." Sounds reasonable enough.

Some of those power users are less than thrilled though. Sean Rasmussen at SeanSEO posted an interesting Among these reasons are the punishment of loyal users and conflict of interest.

With regard to the conflict of interest, Sean says, "Staff members are Diggers too. Even the boss of Digg is a digger. No one believes that the bossman’s submissions would ever get buried by a Digg moderator."

Should Censorship Be Added to the Top 10?

buried by Digg themselves. "Here I was about to write accolades to DIGG and thank them for proving me wrong and not burying an article that critisised them - and then they blatantly shat in their own nest (pardon the French)," says Sean. "Shame! So the point still stands that only DIGG-censored information gets to stay in public view stands strong. Sounds a bit like our newspapers actually."

At the time of this writing, Sean's Top Ten list has found quite irritating and even unacceptable. Many left eBay and

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