Digg Removes Rank Completely
In a final blow to its most active contributors Digg has stopped publicizing the rank of its top users. Now, Digg rank is not shown anywhere, even a user’s profile. This means that unofficial Digg rankings like this one are, for all intents and purposes, broken. This is a further step Digg is taking to appeal to the majority at the expense of its core crowd, perhaps seeking to dispel the notion that only an elite few can succeed on Digg and draw in a wider user base. To me, this smells like acquisition, acquisition,acquisition. Either Kevin Rose is getting ready to pitch Digg to a media giant, probably News Corp, or acquisition talks are already well underway, and Digg is responding to pressure from the buyer. Either way, expect a shakeup in the social news scene quite soon.
No more rank, anywhere. Pity… I was just beginning to climb to the top.
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My unofficial list is no more broken than it was when I put it up. I wasn’t using that ranking information to compile the list, so removing it had no effect.
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