Anatomy of the Digg Crisis

Posted by usablecontent on Wednesday May 02, 2007 @11:52AM
from the startupmeme.com dept.

http://startupmeme.com/2007/05/02/anatomy-of-the-digg-crisis/

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Re:Anatomy of the Digg Crisis by far33d on Wednesday May 02, 2007 @12:07PM (#18736)

Screwed if they ban (community leaves, crisis, etc). Screwed if they don't (DMCA). They made the right choice: It's better to be taken down by the MPAA than to take yourself down by antagonizing your users.

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Re:Anatomy of the Digg Crisis by usablecontent on Wednesday May 02, 2007 @12:16PM (#18741)

Totally agreed, I think Kevin Rose made the right choice. Banning the stories at this juncture would have been a suicide.

The users threatened to move on to Reddit, but this does not mean Reddit would have been a beneficiary, it would have to either allow this or show the users door once again.

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Re:Anatomy of the Digg Crisis by usablecontent on Wednesday May 02, 2007 @11:58AM (#18733)

Check out techmeme http://www.techmeme.com/070502/p5#a070502p5

cant help imagining how much press coverage Digg has got on this issue

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Re:Anatomy of the Digg Crisis by byrneseyeview on Wednesday May 02, 2007 @12:42PM (#18751)

So far, mainstream coverage has been sparse. Forbes has an article, and some of the British papers do, but the Washington Post and NYT don't have stories. If I had to guess, I'd say that this is huge news to people who know what Digg is, and that it won't attract the attention of anyone else.

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