Digg Changes May've Increased Quality, But Digg Community Is In Turmoil

Digg Changes May've Increased Quality, But Digg Community Is In Turmoil: "This week there's been turmoil in the Digg world, as the Digg developers strive to reduce the influence of the top users - in other words make the system fairer. As Kevin Rose recently wrote, their aim is that 'a more diverse pool of individuals will be need to deem the story homepage-worthy'. However this has caused an uproar amongst Digg's top users, who feel they have been accused of gaming. Apparently most of Digg's top 20-30 users have refused to contribute or digg stories since the uproar happened. Or if they have dugg stories, they've been buried by other users - check out this short thread for an example. This is a serious upheaval amongst the Digg community - and it's begun to affect the discussions. In this digg thread, a top digger named Digital Gopher gets a very hard time: And see this recent Digg thread entitled Top Digg Users Removing Avatars Hired by Netscape, which links to http://americanhistory.about.com/od/traitors/. Heavy stuff. I'm told that the (non-public) forum for the t"