I won't be reading Digg any more. I've visited it almost daily for the past 2 years or so, but it's been a long time since I've seen something on Digg that I haven't already seen at another site (except for stories about Digg itself). The front-page news is always at least a day old, and there are far too few real news stories and way too many "LOL FUNNY PIC" and "OBAMA CAN HAZ ELEKSHUN" stories.

Oh, and where is that OpenID support that was promised to be added "sometime this year" in early 2007? Here is what I wrote in an e-mail to Tom Drapeau after hearing that:

I'm not normally a betting man, but I'd put a week's pay against Digg actually rolling that out before December 31, 2007. Their ratio of features promised to features delivered is, how you say, crappy.

I'd say that I won that bet quite handily.

Some of you may have noticed that Kevin Rose (Digg user kevinrose) no longer appears in both the Digg's Top 100 and Top 1,000 Users lists. It was recently brought to my attention that Kevin's profile page shows that he has submitted 295 stories to Digg, but somehow, 298 of his submissions have reached the front page.

Gaming the system like this will not be tolerated, and any Digg users caught breaking the laws of mathematics will immediately be banned from both Top Users lists.

This CSV files contains the username, number of frontpage stories, number of submitted stories, number of stories dugg, and number of profile views for the top 1,000 users on Digg.

Top 1000 Diggers as of 2007/09/26

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Digg updated their profile sections, but they still havent fixed their custom math library that has allowed Kevin Rose to have 101% of his submissions hit the homepage.

This CSV files contains the username, number of frontpage stories, number of submitted stories, number of stories dugg, and number of profile views for the top 1,000 users on Digg.

Top 1000 Diggers as of 2007/09/12

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(Here's the actual Digg story.)

This CSV files contains the username, number of frontpage stories, number of submitted stories, number of stories dugg, and number of profile views for the top 1,000 users on Digg.

Top 1000 Diggers as of 2007/09/05

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This CSV files contains the username, number of frontpage stories, number of submitted stories, number of stories dugg, and number of profile views for the top 1,000 users on Digg.

Top 1000 Diggers as of 2007/08/08

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Top 1000 Diggers as of 2007/08/01

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Digg Headline: Repub Candidates Refuse YouTube

From the article:

"So far, only Sen. John McCain (Ariz.) and Rep. Ron Paul (Tex.) have agreed to participate in the debate. Formal invitations arrived at campaigns yesterday."

So the candidates have had invitations for a whole 12 hours and haven't yet officially accepted? Stop the presses, this is front-page news!

Of course, the Digg comments are filled with anti-Republican rhetoric based solely on the headline, and it looks like Apokalyps2547 is the only commenter who may have read the linked article. (Of course, it's such a non-story that I'm surprised it was published at all.) Methinks "RTFA" should be appended to the headline of any political Digg story by default.