admin(Mark) wrote:

I really liked visiting digg.com but the deletion of posts referring to a code to break the encryption on high definition dvds has cause the members to revolt. The now infamous "Spread this number" post has caused the once(?) popular digg.com to become at the moment useless.

Have a look http://www.digg.com

Posted: Tue May 01, 2007 11:04 pm

admin(Mark) wrote:

An update on this issue. It seems that the same night the owner Kevin, caved and joined the members with posting the illegal number.
Many called him a hero but I think he was forced to join the gang or risk losing digg.com which in return makes him a coward.
I lost respect for the site since this incident. The digg owners should have notified the community of what was going on and explain to them why it was the right move for them to remove the posts with the illegal codes. As a webmaster, you cannot delete posts without notifying the community. This is of course in regards to topics that violated their tos.
Personally I would have taken a different route. If I got a letter telling me to remove copyrighted materials from the site which were posted by a member, I would first notify the member and the community of why I am removing the post/file.
This would have calmed the community or at least send the anger towards the copyright holder instead of the web site.
In the end, it happened and so we must move on

Posted: Sat May 05, 2007 7:51 pm