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Digg was the old Reddit before Reddit was Reddit. Reddit still existed, but Digg was bigger and more popular. It operated in a similar fashion with upvotes/downvotes on submissions and comments but didn't have user-created categories like subreddits, only pre-defined one
Jay Adelson and Kevin Rose were onto something when they started Digg in 2004. It filled a need for people to express themselves, but it was soon apparent that people were gaming the system to get upvotes. The more they tried to fix it, the more screwed up it got.
Digg 4.0 changed from a user based submit system where 'Powerusers' controlled content, to where companies auto submitted blog spam and reached the front page. It wouldn't have been so egregious except Digg 4.0 gave auto submitted blog spam a huge advantage over the average, or even power user.
Digg was primarily about discovering and sharing content. Reddit has a different culture. It is all about the comments and the community, links are often just a pretext for a discussion. On Digg you never saw people engage in smart, involved debates, take time to write entire essays, share life stories, ask for advice, or buy each other pizza.
The new Digg is a complete opposite of what old Digg was, but the image of the new Digg, for many, is still the old Digg. How do you guys plan on changing this image in people's mind? You guys are doing great work with the content curation and it hurts me to see people still have this misconception and misunderstanding of the new Digg.
People changed, platforms evolved and devolved; Digg is a completely different place and Reddit, although looking the same, has risen to a much higher place in the internet stratosphere. The whole Digg vs. Reddit war was fun in its heyday but that battle faded into obscurity when Digg imploded from version 4 and Reddit scaled to new heights.
Waiting for the reddit hivemind to dump on it because it has the name "Digg". >.>; So I've just been comparing it to eztv. The latest entry from eztv found by BTDigg is Being.Human.US.S01E06.It.Takes.Two.ao.Make.a.Thing.Go.Wrong.HDTV.XviD-FQM.avi which was posted 2 days ago.
Doing basically what Reddit mods are doing now. History repeats. There was a major overhaul that basically took submissions away from users and switched to a partnership program. So clickbait sites that relied on Digg for views would automatically publish articles to Digg, and users were cut out of the system.
It's Digg's only hit, although he smashes the ball twice more, once at the LF, once at the SS. Could easily be 4-for-5. Career, after 49 games: 5 AB, 1 hit, 2 TB, 2 RS (one unofficially). I like to think there's a bunch of badly socialized teens in the bleachers, wearing Digg headbands and cheap aviator shades, cheering for him.
Digg V.4 happened and it was just the catalysis. It was a perfect storm of Bored Users + Stagnating Service + The Realization That Someone Is Doing It Better. For a long time, Digg (from the perspective of Digg users) was a powerhouse, and Reddit was that ugly and poorly formatted place where nerds go to be all elitist.