Yesterday, Yahoo launched their new Suggestion Boards which has a digg-like voting mechanism and looks quite close to Digg, but unlike Digg, it’s not for promoting stories, but for sharing comments over various Yahoo Service. Infact, Yahoo had even generously credited Digg in their blog post. Digg mafia didn’t quite like it, so nearly 2800 diggers dugg a post titled “Yahoo Shamelessly Rips Off Digg and Brags About it,†and started screaming, flaming on Yahoo through comments.
That’s not all; they even went upto spamming Yahoo Suggestion Board and their blog with their immature messages. Kevin Rose invented Digg, but he didn’t invent the voting system, he didn’t invent democracy. He just built a good community, that’s it. (Duncan Riley explains it better)
I’m not blaming the entire Digg community for this; some good diggers are even asking others to stop it. From this entire episode, I think Digg mafia is hurting Digg’s own reputation. It brings no good to Digg!
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