The Day Digg Users Revolted
From The Day Digg Users Revolted: “A dedicated community quickly formed around the idea [of users gaving editorial control], and it fueled Digg’s rise to the top of the burgeoning market of social news sites. Last night, Digg’s founders learned how strongly their users would protect the control given to them. The episode started when users began linking to a page containing a code that unlocked copyrighted DVDs. The site’s administrators began taking down the links and suspending the accounts of those who posted them. The users…revolted by flooding the site with all kinds of different iterations of the now banned information — hidden in image files, tacked on to entries with thinly-veiled headlines, and even a song posted to YouTube. At one point, the entire front page of Digg contained nothing but stories about the DVD hack and Digg’s ban.”