Digg's new algorithm is destroying the digg 'middle class'

How many great stories are being missed because this flawed algorithm? It's hurting people for having loyal friends - digg decided "friend variety" is a good way to judge the quality of a story. And guess who has lots of random friends? Top users.

I'm the opposite: I submit news from *actual newspapers* but have a small ammount of loyal friends, so I'm punished.

It took 180 diggs for my Mccain story to frontpage. Yet Mrbabyman frontpaged with just 40 diggs recently. Kevin Rose admited it at the Digg Town Hall. (However yesterday Mrbabyman went 0 for 6.)

Of course digg should stop top users from spamming the frontpage, but "user variety" just isn't a good way to promote or punish digg stories.