In order for an article, story, website or photo to get onto Digg, someone must submit it. To do this, you must create a (free) account, find a story you like and provide a few basic details of it. Some people are very good at this and watch the news headlines and RSS feeds like a hawk. Up until today, Digg had been compiling a list of who submitted the most stories that in turn got dugg by other users. One would think that this is a full time job by how often some users are submitting stories, they must live online.

The URL digg.com/topusers now redirects to a blog posting from Kevin Rose, an explanation of why he has chosen to remove the Top Diggers sections is

Some of our top users – the people that have spent hundreds if not thousands of hours finding and digging the best stuff – are being blamed by some outlets as leading efforts to manipulate Digg. These users have been listed on the “Top Diggers” area of the site that was created in the early days of Digg when there was a strong focus on encouraging people to submit content. The list served a great purpose of recognizing those who were working hard to make Digg a great site

The full blog posting can be read here.

I’m also thinking part of this is because of other competing sites who are trying to buy these “diggers” like Netscape did not so long ago.

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