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…