The Digg Civil War

There’s a small civil war beginning on Digg.com. If you don’t know what Digg is — there is no way to finish that sentence — everyone knows Digg.

In the past couple of days, a bunch of stories have made it to the front page of Digg demanding change. The stories claim that “power diggers” have taken over Digg and it is no longer a fair playing ground for all users.

The claim is that the stories themselves no longer make it to the front page of Digg. If identical stories are submitted by a regular user and a power digger, even if the regular user submitted the story first, the power digger’s story will make the front page. Some users are stating that they won’t even submit a story to Digg because they don’t think it will ever reach the front page.