Tomorrow Is the End of Digg’s Top Users
As I predicted about a month and a half ago after they moved it to the bottom of the page, Digg will be removing the list of its top users from the site.
Starting tomorrow, Kevin Rose has announced that there will no longer be a top user list and instead there will be a new system in place to suggest friends with similar interests to you.
As a top Digg user myself (#23 and falling) I think I’m still kind of up in the air about how I feel about this, but I’m leaning towards thinking it’s the right move. If there are no special perks that come with being a top user, why note who we are? I suppose to give some recognition for our hard work, but recently the list has become more of an emailing list guide for spammers and a black list for some groups of users who simply bury everything we submit.
It sucks that we’re getting nothing for helping build Digg into what it has become, but one could also argue that if it wasn’t us there would have been a hundred other users in line to do the same thing. I don’t know, as I said I’m kind of up in the air about it.
Maybe we’ll see better, more diverse stories on the front page of Digg from here on out, or maybe we’ll see worse, who knows. We’ll see.
