I've now spent a lot of time on both Digg and Reddit and I'm admittedly starting to side with Reddit. The content on the website alone is enough to attract my loyalty, but it was when I noticed the comment section on Digg had essentially copied Reddit that I lost interest. On Reddit, users' comments can receive upvotes or downvotes, just as any content posted on the site can. Digg's commenting used to be independent of user feedback, but now it has adapted the same system Reddit uses! Check it out:
For those who can't see, in the bottom right corner, oboy's comment has +288 diggs; the number is listed above a thumbs up/thumbs down, which is exactly what Reddit does for its user feedback. In this case, Casbah's comment received 24 upvotes - the direct comparison is incontrovertible:
Although Digg may be turning into a less-popular version of Reddit (or Reddit a more popular version of Digg), there is an aspect of Reddit that I find frustrating: multiple people posting the same link. Moreover, Redditor's badmouth Digg all the time. Take this example from yesterday's Reddit page:
Both of these articles link to the same page, and both of them were posted within hours of each other. It seems to me that Reddit's encouragement of personal voice often results in people posting more crap and oftentimes the same crap. Even if Digg copied Reddit's commenting format, it doesn't really matter if no one has anything original or important to say.
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