February 6, 2007
Digg Friending 101 & The Top Diggers List
Last week Digg removed the "Top
Diggers" list in order to help stop the manipulation and gaming of
Digg, which resulted in a lot of
commotion. Today, I
wanted to take a fresh look to explain how the move may impact Digg's "Friending"
system and possibly allow more non-top Diggers to place stories with the
service.
Without the top users list, it will be harder for new Digg users to friend the top 100 users. For those not familiar, any Digg user can make another Digg user their friend. You just find a Digger's profile or Dugg page like this. Look under their icon, and you'll see an Add Friend option:
