Digg.com started out with what at the time was a new and perhaps even revolutionary concept. Instead of a small group of editors publishing news on the site people get to vote and therefore decide what's important.

And for a while it really seemed to work. It seemed like to get dugg you really just had to have a good story that readers of digg are actually interested.

But it's all gone wrong somewhere along the way by today. It seems that for some reason if you're not what they call a "top digger" your chances of having your story voted to the homepage are next to none. Democracy has deevolved into some kind of an oligarchy and the quality of content that does get published seems worse and somewhat predictable. Most of the top stories are just some funny images or some weird internet meme. I once joked looking at top stories of digg that digg has turned into an idiocracy.

Has anyone had any success lately getting a good article published on the front page of digg? And what do you think about the quality of content there?

I don't visit Digg because of exactly what you pointed out -- the stories chosen by the "in group" over there are almost uniformly insipid.

They need some fresh blood in their "top digger" group, and preferably people with IQ's above room temperature.

Will.Spencer wrote:
I don't visit Digg because of exactly what you pointed out -- the stories chosen by the "in group" over there are almost uniformly insipid.

They need some fresh blood in their "top digger" group, and preferably people with IQ's above room temperature.

Indeed.

I think reddit.com is better though. There is still some of that "idiocratic" culture, but I think there's a lot more meaningful stuff and I had better experiences submitting my stories there. You don't have to get to the homepage or very far to still get some votes and comments going.

I think this is because reddit allows a down vote and is a lot more granular. Instead of a rigid set of categories there are "reddits" which users can create themselves and others submit into so there's a lot less centralization going on and it's more distributed.