Are Sites Like DiGG Fair ?

***wraggster*** · April 3rd, 2007, 16:35

Ive been following the site DiGG over the last few months and a trend occurs that really puts a downer on these social voting sites.

Whenever big sites such as Engadget, Joystiq, Gizmodo, Kotaku and others post a digg even if the digg post was sourced from another site that had already submitted a Digg they because of their size nearly always get the stories from them made popular.

So the little sites who the story originated from just cant compete with sites who get mega hits each day.

Maybe there should be a source link on each digg post (if one exists)

Am i the only one who thinks its just a case of the big sites winning each time or could i be wrong.

Should sites like Digg/Slashdot and others change to make sure say that the proper site gets the linkages?

I should say that i have nothing against the sites above but maybe a fairer system is needed ?

Give your verdicts via Comments

**weirdelf** · April 3rd, 2007, 16:45

Someone's Digged this article.

**IM back!** · April 3rd, 2007, 16:49

yes i suppose it wold be better but i don't think its going to incres the popularaty of the small site.

**ExcruciationX** · April 3rd, 2007, 17:02

Doesn't sound that fair to me.

What is Digg anyway?

**I heart Nintendo** · April 3rd, 2007, 17:20

*lol* @ above comment.

It is kinda unfair, but it's what's always gonna happen I guess. The solution? Check out smaller sites and digg 'em! Support the lil' underdogs.

**kaffie** · April 3rd, 2007, 17:49

Slap me if i'm wrong but dosn't this site source and quote stories from the bigger sites itself?

Maybe there should be like a "food miles" thing going on where you can see where a story has been on its travels.