Agreed. I personally think its a great thing that there are a core set of users that keep a site interesting and fresh. I failed to mention these on accident,

Agreed. I personally think its a great thing that there are a core set of users that keep a site interesting and fresh. I failed to mention these on accident, but here are a couple more stats to give a little more insight into how the update has affected things. Pre Recommendation Engine, the top 10 only accounted for between 12-17% of stories on Digg's frontpage, the #1 digger Pre-RE (MrBabyMan) now barely registers post update (he was tied for 11th at the time of the article).