Actually kuro5hin.com did the same thing several years before. I have said in the past that reddit's early marketing blurbs sure seemed similar to digg's. But

Actually kuro5hin.com did the same thing several years before. I have said in the past that reddit's early marketing blurbs sure seemed similar to digg's. But I never really meant it to be taken as a substantial criticism. Everyone copies (and more importantly modifies) other people's ideas all the time. It's not like google was the first search engine.