From the perspective of a programmer-slash-reader back in '05, I think the progression was that you discovered Digg and used it until you heard about Reddit, wh

From the perspective of a programmer-slash-reader back in '05, I think the progression was that you discovered Digg and used it until you heard about Reddit, which had much fewer stupid stories that were much more tech focused than Digg's, so you ditched Digg and started reading Reddit until three out of four stories were about either peak oil, Ron Paul, why America sucked, or Obama. You suffered through that for a while until Hacker News came along, and then you stopped going to Reddit. I've actually started reading Slashdot again in the last year of so, which is funny, because it's growing irrelevance is what drove me to Digg in the first place.