Is Digg Rigged?

By mgray
In Media, Social Networks  

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I can’t imagine why some people find this an entirely shocking concept? I mean we all try to teach our children to play fair and that everybody gets an equal chance, but the sad part is once they grow up and become an adult at some point they realize it was all a lie, and well the world isn’t the egalitarian utopia they thought it was.

The system is rigged to favor the rich, wealthy, powerful, and well connected. So where people get the illusion that online life is somehow different is mind boggling in it’s naivete. Take these two stories on digg today about how the Digg system isn’t democratic and how Digg is being abused. Maybe people got confused because the currency on the web is different. Value is placed on links, trusted domains, and traffic. Some people can take this 2.0 currency and convert it into cold hard cash, most however really don’t know what to do with it.

So c’mon deep down inside is it really that shocking that things like digg are being gamed at all? Were you so delusional that you thought it was impossible, or did you have on rose colored glasses that were as thick as the bottom of old coke bottles and though who would abuse something so good and pure.

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