Meta-Digg: The Rules of People-Power

Dear Digg Users,

Welcome to Web 2.0! During this exciting time, there will likely be many new issues that spring up. We're all new at this, but if you keep in mind the following guidelines, every one's experience will be much better.

1. Some of you may have been Slashdot readers. I can tell because the same complaints are made at Digg. But let me let you in on a secret: the frontpaged stories are chosen by readers, not editors. So your complaints about duplicate stories are not only meaningless, they take up comment space. There's a lot of interesting comments on Digg, and yours just get in the way.
2. Following from the previous item: Digg is powered by people. If the masses think a story should be covered six times a day, then the masses are curious about the story. Your complaints do not help. Unpredictable things happen when you give people the power.
3. Digg was started by a few guys with little money. If you hate what people here are digging, recruit enough users and launch your own version. There is even an open source digg-like application you can install.
4. Pointing out spelling and grammar errors makes you look like an ass. If you could self-correct those errors in your head without getting lost, so can everyone else. Some very smart people are very bad spellers. Come up with something original to say, or say nothing at all.
5. Quit complaining about the "liberal bias" of Digg. Back to the people-power theme: if the masses want the story, the masses get the story. It seems like the masses today, at least the technically-savvy ones, have a "liberal bias". Deal with it. Either choose a new site, choose a new bias, or choose to digg your conservative stories.
6. Don't argue with a mob. It's their way or the highway. Does your singular opinion really deserve to be heard of hundreds or thousands that digg a story?
7. And finally, based on all the rules above, don't listen to me. My singular opinion really doesn't deserve to be heard over everyone else's opinion. Or if it is, then DIGG ME!.

Here are some addendums from the Digg comments on this:

• Don't bitch about things. This whole people-powered things is powered by, wait for it: PEOPLE. Which means you can try to change anything you don't like. The commenter in the link complained that the same people are always getting their stories frontpaged. How many stories has the complainer submitted? None.
• For an English Open-Source Digg Clone, Check out Pligg
• Let me refine number 4: If the spelling makes the comment unintelligible or detracts it to the point of being irrelevant, mod it down. Bitching about it just clutters the comments.