*NOTE* This article was originally posted May 1st, 2007, but in upgrading my website I haved moved it here. It exists for archival reasons only, and no comments from the original article remain.

In light of two of my stories (and countless others) disappearing from digg altogether, and to keep this post from getting deleted, I won’t mention a certain sequence of numbers and letters that has the digg admins all up in arms, but I will broach this very important question:

Was it worth it? Respect is an intangible thing, for sure, certainly not as real and solid as a lot of that venture capital money that you’ve been lusting over, but it was all that your community was built on. Was it worth losing the respect of hundreds of your most passionate members, just to keep a mindlessly idiotic organization off your back? I think you’ll discover rather quickly that it wasn’t, and if this post ends up going MIA from your site, than you can kiss this former member goodbye forever.

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This has very little to do with a silly hack, it’s the fact that digg has placed the nonexistent rights of a shill organization over the hard-earned respect of their members. That’s what all the outrage is about!

LAST UPDATE

Victory. That’s all I can say. 09-f9-11-02-9d-74-e3-5b-d8-41-56-c5-63-56-88-c0