Wired reports today that Digg, in an attempt to defend Digg from gaming and spam, founder Kevin Rose announced the site will be changing its algorithm for weighting and ranking stories.

Users that follow a gaming pattern will have less promotion weight. This doesn’t mean that the story won’t be promoted, it just means that a more diverse pool of individuals will be need to deem the story homepage-worthy.

( does this sound like link network, spam site farm, linking scheme , affiliations and trust rank ???

While announcing his resignation one of the top users, “p9″ resigns and said “I will no longer no supporting Digg going forward.” … P9 has submitted 1,334 stories. 668 of those stories have been promoted within the last 7 months.

Well – I guess there’ll be a new P9 … but question for the next days is – what pyramid effect will this leave have?

What we learn?

Once your community started to strive, develop it’s own organic life, then chaning the rules are a bad thing…

let’s wait and see…