The blog post by Kevin Rose in response to the Digg community's outcry about top diggers gaming the system has caused many top diggers to be singled out from the community and buried not on the merit of their content, but on their unfounded accusations that the top Diggers were manipulating or "gaming" Digg's democratic system. Not only was the blog post misrepresented, but it was misinterpreted, by the Internet community to support one Digg user's claim that The Digg System Is Being Gamed By Top Users. This misrepresentation was due to time of the blog post, coming shortly after the Digg community outcry, and the misinterpretation by the Digg community, that Kevin was claiming they were correct in their accusations. While Kevin's statement did anything but point fingers, the Digg community saw it otherwise, and considered their outcry successful. As a result, any user mentioned in these blog posts from the Digg community, and those with high ranks on Digg, including myself, have been censored or buried on Digg without just cause.
Many of the top diggers, myself included, see little reason to submit and contribute to Digg anymore, as we have become the targets of a small group of people who wish to censor us, without regard to justification. Many top Diggers have been trying to hold out and stick with Digg, hoping for things to calm down or for the Digg Team to issue new features that allow the user not to be spammed and buried by this small but vocal group of Diggers. Though for the time being, many top Diggers have moved to other social networking sites, until the site calms down or new changes solve this problem. Some have just simply decided to stop contributing to Digg altogether, seeing no reason to, because of this small group of Diggers are mercilessly burying our contributions. Others have decided not to give up on Digg, and refuse to allow this small group of digg spammers to think they have won. In general though, all of the top diggers would love to stay with Digg, and we are continually working with Jay and the Digg Team to ensure that problems in the Digg system are solved, and that no one user have more of an influence than any others.
I haven't stopped submitting. You can check out my Digg account or my Digg submissions. I have been submitting, but have been disallowed to get stories to the homepage, by this group, the aptly named Digg Bury Brigade. I haven't had a homepage story in a week and a half, and don't expect to in the future because of it, regardless of the content. Look at my most recent submission about Digg River, an official Digg.com service, which has been stalled for quite a while, not yet hitting the homepage. And I wouldn't be surprised to find it buried.
