Can Digg make a run on Reddit?

Can Digg make a run on Reddit?
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Give users the ability to dislike something strongly enough that anyone who voted it up is excluded from all vote counts/rankings/recommendations as provided to that user for some period of time. While this leads to a filtered world, that is exactly what users expect from sites like these.

Reddit is essentially falling apart for many users (while catering to a new audience) -- in /r/all as well as individual subreddits that see a constant cycle of abandonment as people try to ontologically solve the problem -- as it is increasingly dominated by teenagers.

If I could strongly express a disinterest in every fictitious Facebook picture / iPhone message conversation, and that served as a quality indicator of people whose opinions I don't respect, that would be beautiful.

In its current state definitely not. If they can build even better algorithms and communities than Reddit, maybe. But that's a huge if. And they've got nothing right now.

I do like its design though, which is very different from Reddit, and that means it might serve a different market.

I associate reddit more with close discussion communities, as broader-versions of forums.

Digg at its highest peak was a grossly imperfect product. If project success depended upon trivia like type="text/javascript", the internet world would be a very different place.