Not counting votes from direct hits is ridiculous. There goes every user who uses RSS, widgets, or the dozen visualizations from digg themselves - all of which

Not counting votes from direct hits is ridiculous. There goes every user who uses RSS, widgets, or the dozen visualizations from digg themselves - all of which link directly to the story article. digg already throttles people's votes - in a nondirect way. Yes, your vote counts as much as mine, but if a group of users attempting to game the system are voting on that story - then that story requires more votes to get to the front of the page. The throttling is implemented at the story level based on the users voting for that story and the pattern in which they are voting.