She had her own grievances with him a little while back!

As far as MBL goes there is an interesting thing on the horizon, just keep an eye on it. ;-)

The last part of my comment (about Andy and Digg) still stands.

From what you are describing, it seems that Digg once had more of a group emphasis. Where as now it has more of a site emphasis. Causing a bit of a clash of cultures. I can see how the change in emphasis would make some users feel disenfranchised, devaluing their participation.

As I said, I do not use Digg. But, I think i understand your perspective now.

Please do not misunderstand my comment. It is not an attack on Andy. I have a lot of respect for him. I was simply pointing out that certain aspects of the post could be misconstrued and may not have the desired affect. Unfortunately, for many, perception is fact.

Do you really think that by even writing such lines Andy’s audience or reputation would go down the drain ?

Absolutely not.

Good luck. I am not sure this post will have the effect on your readers, Digg, or your reputation that you may have expected.

This is the biggest error you made in your article. Do you really think that by even writing such lines Andy’s audience or reputation would go down the drain ?

It’s a no-brainer. if you ever want to look smart, you leave things discoverable by readers, not state them out-loud. if you did that, then .. well .. there are no brains involved.

Moreover, Andy just blogs about things he likes or dislikes. And since he’s an Internet marketer like most of other guys around the web, he especially deals with websites like Digg.

IMHO, the Digg team have been pushed so many times by their own users because they made mistakes. The fact that they have an internal auto-bury filter is so obvious by many of us.

They probably, in their own meeting place talked and made it to get rid of spamming websites.

Our problem is that they auto-catalogue anything from the SEO/SEM field as SPAM simply because we know web tricks and sometimes know how to get ahead of others.

Now there’s the BS. And it’s not Andy’s BS.

I hope this sums it up.

Now with the new Digg design, that view is almost useless, and the majority of Diggers I know look at the upcoming page sorted by most Diggs.

If a story gets buried or autoburied, it is removed from upcoming, so many Dig users won’t see it, even if they are friends.

In addition, because many Digg users know this is how it works, they won’t even bother to vote for articles they enjoy, because they know that the content won’t be seen anyway – all they will be doing by voting is accelerating its demise.