For the faint of heart, Digg is still a wild, untamed territory

I think of Digg as the wild, wild west of the social networking world. You post comments and links there at your own risk. The mob’s reaction to spammers and those who break etiquette or post something unpopular is not for the timid. Frontier justice is swift and often merciless.

That’s not all bad; the system, despite its flaws, usually succeeds in propping up interesting stories and burying those that are not.

So, I wasn’t surprised to read about the sexist reaction on Digg to a Fast Company story about the most influential women in Web 2.0. The anonymity of the Web emboldens a lot of jerks out there. I found the article interesting and worth a read, even if lists like that are often thinly-veiled attempts at getting linked to by the people you’re flattering.

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