In view of Digg’s choice to pursue ad-revenue through less than honorable means, I will no longer post digg.com links to twitter or any other service. This will be a permanent move on my part, with exception being that Digg correct their err in judgement.
I hope more sites begin making extensive use of their social-bookmarking badges, because more people feel the same way as I do about this. If we’re going to send users to a site under the impression that they’ll find content there, they had better find content there. If they want to vote the content up through Digg’s system, then they can utilize the tools provided on a per-site basis by those sites themselves. Digg’s behavior in this regard is completely unacceptable.
Read the full post on this story at EndofWeb.co.uk
