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Anatomy of the Digg Crisis
- usablecontent 19y agoCheck out techmeme http://www.techmeme.com/070502/p5#a070502p5 http://www.techmeme.com/070502/p5#a070502p5 cant help imagining how much press coverage Digg has got on this issue
- byrneseyeview 19y agoSo 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.
- far33d 19y agoScrewed 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.
- usablecontent 19y agoTotally 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.