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Thanks for your quick response! Obviously, this is a very difficult thing to control. We strongly believe in letting the crowd power the news of the website, and so we will work to avoid administratively intervening at all costs.

In terms of preventing a ‘liberal takeover,’ there a couple of barriers in place:

1) At the most basic level — we’d hope that folks will respect the purpose of our website. Reading through the comments on Digg and your article, it seems that many people on both sides believe that there is a liberal bias in the Digg community. Hopefully, these folks will recognize the rationale behind our website and will ‘live and let live.’

2) We have built a solid community of folks who have been very active on our website. We believe that they would step up in response to any attempts to take over the site.

3) The algorithm that determines whether a story makes it to the front page is fairly complex, but one thing it factors in is your history on R-igg — how long you’ve been there, and how your votes on stories correlate to what would be considered to be a ‘mainstream’ vote. This means that votes from folks who have been around for a long time and have contributed to the site regularly carry more weight than votes from new visitors.

I hope this answers your question. Please let me know if there’s anything else I can do. Thanks!

Regards,

Aaron M. Marks
President
Three Group, LLC

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There is another much more intriguing explanation out there. According to Shay at Booker Rising, which describes itself a newsite for black moderates and black conservatives [emphasis added]:

I took the shuttle bus back to Minneapolis, and I overheard a convention organizer named Phil telling a convention delegate that the protesters on Wednesday night got through because of media credentials that were traced back to MSNBC (he told her that each credential has an individual bar code for each convention invitee). They suspect MSNBC this time as well.

If indeed the badges are bar-coded, it should be a simple matter to check those in the possession of the protesters and determine their provenance.

Notice how he talks about how easy it is to fact check the story, only to not fact check it before running with it? If this turns out not to be true, then I hereby revoke Newsbuster’s right to criticize a journalist ever again.

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Now the National Enquirer is reporting that Sarah Palin allegedly had an affair with her husband’s business partner. According to the right wing logic, shouldn’t the MSM start pushing around-the-clock coverage of this article? After all, based on their own arguments, the National Enquirer is a symbol of Truth, and to question the hundreds of thinly-sourced articles it’s published over the years is the most pure definition of liberal bias.

You heard them ABC, NBC, NPR, CBS, New York Times, and LA Times! The right wingers have called you to action! Go forth and report on how Palin has been cheating on her husband!

UPDATE: Great quote in the comments section of Digg: “It may be that the Dems had to sacrifice a pawn in order to take a Queen.”

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Her knee-jerk defense of Palin grew so ridiculous that she even went after gossip tabloid US Weekly today, devoting her lead post to a “partisan hit job” it did. What’s next? A shrieking post about the alien big foot bias in Weekly World News?

Well, later today, to prove her point, she reprinted this photoshopped cover of US Weekly to “prove” the magazine’s bias by making a John Edwards sex scandal love child joke. But do you notice something about the photo? John Edwards is holding Sarah Palin’s down syndrome baby Trig. Michelle “leave her alone” Malkin used Palin’s son to make a cheap sex scandal joke!!!

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