Up until the latter part of the summer, Digg was a pretty good way to get the word out about videos and campaign-related information. Then, McCain supporters got organized and started burying content. Now, I'd say that 4 out of 5 -- if not more -- things that would be appreciated by the Digg community as a whole get buried before making it to the front page.
I'm certain that the reason for this is that Digg just has a bad algorithm for burying, and allows a small minority of users to effectively censor content. I don't think this reflects a bias on the part of Digg management, but it does bias the content on Digg. I'll continue using it for the next week or so, but unless someone can convince me otherwise, I'm going to abandon Digg altogether for political things after this election.
As progressives, we'd be idiots to rely on Digg as anything but an auxiliary communications tool.
© Jed Lewison