Digg’s getting gamed… what we really need to do is learn to question, and learn to trust

Personally, perhaps it’s just how my brain is wired up, but I connected the dots between “Digg popular = traffic”, “lots of friends = lots of diggs” pretty much right away. But is it worth the backlash doing it so blatantly? I know kids with 1000 friends on MySpace, how easy would it be for them to do?

Source: The Secret Group-Digging Conspiracy | Performancing.com Chris Garret Aug 18 2006

I think Chris Garret has hit the nail on the head with what can be oh so wrong with the latest system of organising web stories with social ranking. It always seems to come back to the issue of trust. Trust ratings and other systems are always open to manipulation but in the end I guess you just gotta trust somebody.