I still want to know what happened… If she closed her account and took her (crappy) stories with her, why can’t the digg powers-that-be just say so? Who all here have directly asked Digg about this, and what response–if any–have you received?

I also wonder, do you think Ali got an automatic ‘A’ for accidently causing such a stir (and exposing multiple Digg deficiencies)?

Thanks for your thoughts.

Actually I have read that latest posts — while I am no Lawyer, it seems like they’re probably within their legal rights to threaten a lawsuit against this much smaller fish.

The worrisome thing, as a commenter has mentioned, is how the culture has changed; if Digg has a sort of geek or hacker-chic, that cachet has certainly changed, if all but disappeared.

And it has nothing to do with the simple fact they’re going “mainstream” — but everything with the way that they’re dealing with things.

Using the law as an instrument to bully smaller players is one way I think Digg has really changed.

The Kevin Rose of “Dark Tips” would have never strayed down this road.

But that’s life, I suppose — and all the more reason to catalogue the variety of controversies.

Thanks again for your thoughts.
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I think Digg has many problems. There does seem to be “club mentality” where the cool kids control everything. The average geek reader of Digg is going to have their eyes opened up in the near future. They are going to realize that Digg is all about money and it was from the beginning. As Seinfeld would say, “not that there is nothing wrong with that.” But the average Digg user was given the impression it was something different. Read this story currently on Digg and some of the comments: http://digg.com/tech_news/Digg_Forces_Shutdown_of_DiggGames_com_Domain/blog

I could write much more on my feelings of Digg and maybe I will if you post again about it.

Thanks for stopping by.

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