Digg users are reacting negatively to stories about the HD-DVD code being buried as you can see by the Top 10 screenshot below.
Community-powered sites are not always fun and games. In my earlier post on community sites, Nik pointed me to a great post called When Communities Attack. This isn’t about Digg specifically, but it’s well worth reading. I’m confident Digg will get through this, but it’s not going to be fun. From Kevin Rose on the Digg Blog:
So today was a difficult day for us. We had to decide whether to remove stories containing a single code based on a cease and desist declaration. We had to make a call, and in our desire to avoid a scenario where Digg would be interrupted or shut down, we decided to comply and remove the stories with the code.But now, after seeing hundreds of stories and reading thousands of comments, you’ve made it clear. You’d rather see Digg go down fighting than bow down to a bigger company. We hear you, and effective immediately we won’t delete stories or comments containing the code and will deal with whatever the consequences might be.
If we lose, then what the hell, at least we died trying.
Digg on,
Kevin
Pronet Advertising has some good posts on this:
Digg Cut the Bullshit – You are not democratic
Mob Takes Over at Digg
The Reason Why Digg Removed that Story
UPDATE: As of 11:10pm PST, Digg was down
