Right before heading to bed I had to check the Digg story one more time to see if the guys had come to their senses, and it seems they have (and just in time).
We had to make a call, and in our desire to avoid a scenario where Digg would be interrupted or shut down, we decided to comply and remove the stories with the code.
But now, after seeing hundreds of stories and reading thousands of comments, you’ve made it clear. You’d rather see Digg go down fighting than bow down to a bigger company. We hear you, and effective immediately we won’t delete stories or comments containing the code and will deal with whatever the consequences might be.
If we lose, then what the hell, at least we died trying.
I love that Kevin posted this himself, and even included the offending code in the subject. While they didn’t do the right thing at first, they couldn’t have saved this situation any classier. It brings to mind the Facebook RSS snafu of last year. Way to go Digg team!
Is it necesarry to remove the complete account of a user only because he posted that code?
I still think that’s overreacting.
The problem is that Digg users always thought that Digg is not moderated at all – but surely it is.
I think you’re right. The site is built on ‘community moderation’ and the community doesn’t like it when that doesn’t work.
I must say, although the community wanted the stories to say up, is it worth possibly losing Digg. They are breaking the law, I think its rediclous, some of the users of Digg have no respect for Digg as a company, they need to obey the laws. Just because Digg is community controlled that doesn’t make it okay to break the law. I am dissappointed in Kevin, and all of the Digg guys behind the decision to allow stories about it. Its one thing to block every story with the number, I dont think thats nessacary, but any story that has directions on how to break the law using the code should be taken down.