Ervin Kosch

From and article I originally posted of Digg: “A story entitled “Hillary 1984″ Creator Exposed …. Then Fired’ was #1 on Digg and then removed. Does anyone know why? Has Digg become a political organization instead of a democratically ran organization?”

It turned out to be a big misunderstanding. You see a user had been posting a series of inaccurate and racist stories on Digg. Digg management removed the user; when the user was removed all the user’s stories were also removed. Read the comments on Digg you will get a fuller picture of what happened. So a politically charged story that made it to the #1 spot comments became completely inaccessible in a minute and then disappeared from the home page within 10 minutes.

Here’s my suggestion to keep people like me from suspecting something is up: When a user is removed/suspended have their stories remain active in some form. Just the remove the ability to vote for the story and comment. Keep the comments, individuals should have their views heard. Have a generic message appear that will say “This user has been suspended because [canned message goes here].” Finally have the link to the article stripped from the post so that some can’t click on the story.

Something else came out of this: All the diggs I’ve been getting. I love the attention. Thanks everyone, but I hope you’re digging me because I kept the page the Digg post is linking to accurate. If you’re linking to the story only because of the content of the original content without reading the article the post is linked to I personally would ask that you un-digg the article. I would update the original post on Digg if I could. Please, read the story before you digg an article.

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