Smashing WordPress: Beyond the Blog

Quit your Shouting already!

Gag Digg’s shouting, pleaseThe new Digg is just as much community as it is a social news tool, at least if you want it to be. You can add links to other online presences you might have, upload a few photos, avatars of course, write a short bio… It goes on, very community-ish indeed.

You can also send shouts to your friends, with links and whatnot. At first I got a few “welcome to Digg” and other pleasantries.

Then it degraded.

To spam.

It appears that, in search of even more diggs to push a story to the front page and beyond, people just can’t keep their voice down.

I don’t like it. The shout feature is OK by itself, but trusting the users to use it responsibly is obviously a mistake.

I want a gag feature.