What happened yesterday at Digg is a community revolt, the story behind the revolt is someone posted a key to crack HD-DVD content protection. The story got 50,000 diggs and the digg management took off the story from the front page, some user accounts are also banned for submitting related stories. Digg community broke in for the censorship and started voting for the stories related to HD-DVD key and at times the front page is full of these stories.
Kevin Rose, co-founder of Digg finally gave an explanation to this issue and posted himself key on the digg page. excerpts from Kevin’s post
But now, after seeing hundreds of stories and reading thousands of comments, you’ve made it clear. You’d rather see Digg go down fighting than bow down to a bigger company. We hear you, and effective immediately we won’t delete stories or comments containing the code and will deal with whatever the consequences might be.
If we lose, then what the hell, at least we died trying.
Techcrunch says even Digg didn’t fully understand the power of its community to determine what is “news.�
Digg saved itself from the angry mob
otherwise for the next whole week or two they would have got millions of hate post
yaah you are right, they showed the power of community, digg will remember this forever
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