My initial reaction to this post from Paul Graham was something like this: "heh - he doesn't understand how Digg works". Heck, I even had a post written up along those lines. I've done a bit more reading though, so I trashed that post and started over. Since I've wandered into the middle of the story, I'll back up: there have been a number of stories about Reddit posted at Digg, and they all got pushed off the front page. A look at the search results with the "included buried stories" option tells the tale: the Digg community has been burying those stories.

Childish, perhaps, but not an editorial conspiracy. However, reading into it I ran across this - stupid joke, a guy posts a story on Digg, pointing to an identical story on Reddit, which points back. The title: "Recursion Defined". Ok, funny, haha. Here's the graphic of both stories so you get the point:

The thing is, Digg banned the user who submitted that. Hmm. That sure makes them look like a mature set of adults over there. It's not the most witty joke ever, but sheesh - it's not like it's incitement to riot or something. Maybe Jason Calacanis is making the guys at Digg nervous after all.

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