Was that a rant or an article? (Score 1)

I'm sorry, but IMHO this kinda seems like a bit of sour grapes. The forevergeek.com article really didn't give any hard evidence to suggest some sort of "digg-rigging" is going on. However, it did elude to/mention that their site was blocked from Digg about 9 times, at least one of those in bold text. The fact that the same group of users are the first to digg stories that make it to the homepage could be because of many different factors. Maybe they're all friendly with each other and digg each other's stories, which isn't in itself some sort of shady dealing, it's how communities work. Friends help out other friends. Then again, maybe those same 15-20 users spend most of their days using Digg's "Digg Spy" feature and just seem to always be the first to digg a story because they spend alot of time watching the site and digging whenever they see a story they like. God knows this would be the first time people with too much time on their hands hang around a certain website in order to be the first to respond to a posted article. ::COUGH:: "first post" ::COUGH:: I'm sorry, it just seems to me that all of this uproar is coming from people who may have gotten the short end of the stick because the system was working as intended, and not necessarily because there's a room full of people secretly editorializing the site.