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The algorithm change effectively holds back from the homepage any story that is Dugg by the same groups of friends, i.e. a group that is not “diverse,” which has been a principal dynamic for stories getting promoted to the Digg homepage. This is astonishing on the face of it — Digg’s struggle with gaming is so extreme that they had no choice but to band certain forms of collaboration in a system that is defined by its collaborative nature.

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