That's a hard decision to make, it is not just being bad guy, but the image of digg take a big hit. Also, that few angry guy will be you most loyal digger who spend hours submitting story.
I wonder how many people know what they were digging (honestly i don't, but just to have fun and be a part of the riot)
We'll see how digg was affected by this. My guess is that they will get a boost in traffic from all the publicity and that it will go back to the way it was. At the end of the day I don't think anybody cared that Digg "censored" a story. I made money with 5 minutes of effort. I don't care. People were selling t-shirts. They probably made a few bucks. They probably don't care. Lots of sites who took advantage of the hype got a lot of attention. They probably don't care. Today there's no shortage of new articles because at the end of the day Digg generates traffic. Digg is far less censored than most other sites like Slashdot. With digg, articles are rarely deleted and everything else at least sees the light of day if not much of it. On Slashdot, if you don't get past the select few that make up the gestapo nobody has any way to even know you submitted the story. Digg takes everything unless there's a potential legal liability. In this case there was. Slashdot censors everything that doesn't mesh with a select few's ideology. Slashdot isn't unique in that area.
that was before the incident. I agree, though. It won't be affected at all. Digg users feel important by being part of the herd over there, so they'll come back. Groupthink frees you from a lot of responsibility
1) it happened yesterday (May 1th). That graph didn't show anything 2) see monthly graph, they have sharp drop every few days
at least they had the guts to admit they were wrong and beaten up by their own community for it - overall, that will be a win for digg - it sort of proves their concept if you ask me
Digg is getting a ton of backlinks from high profile news outlets, it will no doubt help them attract new surfers and also give them some nice PR juice.
same thing with discount-mats.com a few months back. Remember that one? They got links from every major newspaper out there. I wish I could get that kind of buzz. In the long run, there is no such thing as bad publicity.
Looks like the AACS are going to start targeting all the bloggers who published the code. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6623331.stm