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Digg was the old Reddit before Reddit was Reddit. Reddit still existed, but Digg was bigger and more popular. It operated in a similar fashion with upvotes/downvotes on submissions and comments but didn't have user-created categories like subreddits, only pre-defined one
Jay Adelson and Kevin Rose were onto something when they started Digg in 2004. It filled a need for people to express themselves, but it was soon apparent that people were gaming the system to get upvotes. The more they tried to fix it, the more screwed up it got.
Digg was primarily about discovering and sharing content. Reddit has a different culture. It is all about the comments and the community, links are often just a pretext for a discussion. On Digg you never saw people engage in smart, involved debates, take time to write entire essays, share life stories, ask for advice, or buy each other pizza.
Waiting for the reddit hivemind to dump on it because it has the name "Digg". >.>; So I've just been comparing it to eztv. The latest entry from eztv found by BTDigg is Being.Human.US.S01E06.It.Takes.Two.ao.Make.a.Thing.Go.Wrong.HDTV.XviD-FQM.avi which was posted 2 days ago.
Digg 4.0 changed from a user based submit system where 'Powerusers' controlled content, to where companies auto submitted blog spam and reached the front page. It wouldn't have been so egregious except Digg 4.0 gave auto submitted blog spam a huge advantage over the average, or even power user.
Digg employees knew about most of the plugins, but there were a few that they were not aware of. Many power users did it for money, many did it for traffic to their own site - but it was a symbiotic relationship - they got a LOT of great content, just because it was so competitive, so it really added to the community, even if 1 in 10 of their ...
It's Digg's only hit, although he smashes the ball twice more, once at the LF, once at the SS. Could easily be 4-for-5. Career, after 49 games: 5 AB, 1 hit, 2 TB, 2 RS (one unofficially). I like to think there's a bunch of badly socialized teens in the bleachers, wearing Digg headbands and cheap aviator shades, cheering for him.
Remove the Bury function that made Digg both aptly named but also removed irrelevant/bad content quickly, allow content to be submitted by those that pay for it, or have the most 'followers', and going from having nearly 40+ million in funding, a valuation in the low 100 millions, only to be sold for 500,000 roughly 2 years after this fiasco.
Doing basically what Reddit mods are doing now. History repeats. There was a major overhaul that basically took submissions away from users and switched to a partnership program. So clickbait sites that relied on Digg for views would automatically publish articles to Digg, and users were cut out of the system.
The current design was a real last attempt to keep digg alive, but it appears that was gutted. I guess it's even more blatant now, probably AI written. Back around 2004 to 2008 or nine I guess, Digg used to be pretty decent, I used it all the time, but then it started to suck, and I eventually migrated over to Reddit….