Digg, as we knew it, is dead. To make matters worse, Digg v4 is in complete chaos. Angry power users who were stripped of their adjective are attempting to fight back by rallying people to Digg articles from rival sites. At one point today, 12 of the 16 links on Diggs front page were pointing to Reddit.com or related stories. The inmates are running the asylum (dot com).
As whats left of the Digg community struggles in vain to find funny pictures of cats and articles from Gawker.com, fear and panic are sure to set in. During this period of turmoil, many will long for a simpler time. But their nostalgia for Old Digg will be misplaced. While New Digg may or may not prove worthless, Old Digg had to die. The site had too much power, and was responsible for taking some of the greatest topics on the Internet and running them straight into the ground. Here are seven examples.
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