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The Decline and Fall of Quality on Digg
article First Clipped on May. 5, 2008
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Fueled partly by a need to counter false accusations from disgruntled community members who claim that Digg is rigged (i.e. that a core group of users decide what content is promoted), partly by the desire to encourage non-core members to participate more passionately, and partly by a need to affect a level of diversity and equality that would appear promising to potential acquirers, Digg has changed its algorithm again and again to artificially favor certain categories over others (i.e. world news and politics over technology) and to favor relatively new users over long-time, active users.