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Digg nixes Top Diggers
Starting today the "Top Diggers" list at Digg no longer exists.
In a blog post on Digg The Blog yesterday Kevin Rose announced that the site has decided to get rid of the list (get your last look here while it lasts). The list which was created in the early days of Digg has recently become a virtual phone book for individuals looking to hire someone to get their content promoted to the front page. While Digg maintains that everything that makes it to the site's homepage legitimately deserves to be there they feel doing away with the list makes the most sense for the integrity of the site.
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Christopher Finke said 1:27PM on 2-02-2007
To show the futility of what Digg is doing, I've written a script to display the top 100 users ( http://www.efinke.com/2007/02/02/top-diggers-list- ), with the list being updated twice a day. If I can do it in an hour, any company looking to recruit top Diggers could find someone to do it just as easily.
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Machine said 1:51PM on 2-02-2007
Good move... let's hope they get rid of the digging and burying of individual comments next. Since there's no limit to it... it's often abused.
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