Digg.com Scandal Heats Up - No End of Corruption in Sight

Ongoing Questions of Digg.com's Integrity and Responsiveness to Its Users

This is the amazing story of how Digg.com administrators ignored a report of alleged plagiarism, then proceeded to suspend the account and ban the IP of the complainant who brought the issue to their attention. The administrator of Allsux.com recently posted a link to Digg.com tagging back to an article in the Allsux blog. Within hours, a second story appeared linking to another site which had roughly duplicated the original content and put it under a new headline. This second story eventually got over 5,000 Diggs while the original story got less than 20. Why? My speculation: the second headline was catchier - or was Dugg up by corrupt Diggers.

When Allsux contacted Digg concerning the issue, no response was forthcoming. After posting repeatedly in the 'comments' section under the plagiarized post on Digg.com, Digg suspended the Allsux account. When Allsux continued to post updates on the situation and post links to these stories on Digg, the Allsux URL was blocked from Digg's system and the Allsux administrator's IP address was likewise banned from creating new accounts. So, rather than responding to a complaint, they censored the complainant and blocked him from their system. To date, they have not written Allsux a single direct response.