Scott Karp on "Digg Nazis"

From Scott Karp:

Yesterday, I wrote about LostCherry, a would-be MySpace killer. Someone posted the story to Digg, and it began rapidly garnering “diggs” and a slew of comments from enthusiastic LostCherry users.

Apparently, the Digg Nazis didn’t like this. The story was "buried."

...Here’s what one Digg Nazi said:

Ahhh….. digg has been invaded by lostcherry fan boys and girls.

Go away, digg is for tech, not slutty websites! Shoo!

Random aside: Who says "Shoo"? Mary Poppins? More to the point, this sort of heavy-handed, subjective gatekeeping is disturbing, but it's an inevitable problem with services that rely upon explicit gestures like "diggs" to tell us what people are paying attention to. I feel like I've said this ten times today, but once more won't kill me: We need better, more sophisticated systems that will allow us to decide whose judgment matters and whose attention data will inform our own reading/listening/viewing decisions.

tags: attention attentiontrust attention+economy attention+data scott+karp digg lost+cherry