News organizations are supposed to report news, social networking sites like Digg that rely on user submitted and popularized news should let what is going to happen, happen. Wiep.net is reporting that the Digg police have buried over 750 posts about the Digg update that happened on September 19th, full details on the update can be seen in this official Digg blog post.

This wouldn’t bother me so much except for the fact that Digg apparently chooses what sites it does and doesn’t want to promote certain stories. The “Digg-effect” has made unknown sites popular and decent money makers overnight and in some cases increased readership 10 fold. For Digg to decide who does and does not get traffic, even though in most cases it isn’t abusing the Digg algorithm is a poor choice on their part.

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