If there is a majority of people voting the story up, it should go up. Don’t like it? tough. It’s called majority rule.
If Digg’s mission is to have stories highlighted based on majority rule, it should do that. OF COURSE since they are privately owned they can do whatever they want, like destroying their credibility.
Just because they are privately owned doesn’t mean they have a right to retain credibility or that nobody else has a right to call them on it after they have hypocritical actions, whether it be some type of policy to censor stories or allowing admins to bury personally annoying stories on a whim.
It’s funny how people think the Ron Paul supporters are a bunch of tin-foil hat conspiradroids, yet you whiners employ the exact same attitude you accuse them of, as if THEY have their own CONSPIRACY to vote stories up and make them appear everywhere.
Don’t like the story? vote it down! If you’re being beat out, it doesn’t mean there’s some type of ’spamming’ going on. Perhaps, maybe, MORE people like Ron Paul than the ones who hate him? I’m sure that’s something you guys would never be willing to entertain the thought of, but it’s certainly a possibility. Guess what, sometimes there’s more people who like something that you don’t. That’s the nature of true democracy. The minority gets the shaft, since it’s a website, get over it. Just be thankful our government isn’t exactly designed as a true democracy, it’s a constitutional republic (so long as Bush doesn’t sign any more crap to redefine it further into oblivion), so the minority’s wishes won’t be totally steamrolled, even if Paul becomes president and is somehow some bastard.
I’d like to know how happy you Paul-despisers would be if you found out one of your favored topics was given the same treatment…authoritarian rule posing as democratic is not so great then, is it? Displays of hypocrisy of course get condoned by hypocrites, no surprise there.

Additionally, I find it odd that those who are actually participating in polls are referred to as spammers. If this individual has no chance of winning the nomination, then why worry in the first place?

Now I see a post from ValleyWag concerning secret editors as well. Kevin Rose apparently responded, but the response itself was quite vague…… There definitely needs to be an investigation…

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Those blogs still get front paged stories yet my origianl one is still auto-buried shortly after being submitted.

The content is the same (written by me) yet, the URL is all the difference in the world between front page and burial.

THAT is why it is important that the bury information be made free.

Firstly: wow there tuff guy.

Secondly: of course they can do whatever they want being a private company and they’re not a government entity, Captain Obvious.

Thirdly: The purpose of Duncans post is to highlight the hypocritical nature of Digg.

Fourthly: Digg is lame anyways, don’t be butt hurt about it.

You can only bait digg users so much before they grow weary. =)

If Digg were truly democratic, they would report 100% of diggs *and* buries.

One story was a video from CES showing off the 24k gold Asus computer. Just an interview. The other was an exclusive look at the Beats headphones announced at CES. Both were doing well until they were buried one time.