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He was the CEO when Digg v4 was released and was one of the driving forces behind it.

Digg v4 was the dagger that killed Digg.



Banning anyone who mentioned a certain number didn't help much either. Digg's policies were terrible long before v4 came out.

Edit: 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0


FYI - the ban was not his idea. He was very much against the idea. There was quite an internal struggle during the course of that day.


iirc that policy was reversed within a day or two and there was no major exodus from digg as a result of the event


Ah, what a day that was.




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