hutcheson - 8:39 pm on Sep 29, 2007 (gmt 0)

There's nothing wrong with Digg continuing to be a Digg-type site. There's also nothing wrong with people who are interested in participating in a Digg-type site--participating in Digg.

I don't share that interest, but that's OK. I have my own interests, and I can find sites pandering to them.

And there's nothing wrong with someone who thinks what the world needs most is yet another Digg-type site--creating one. I don't agree, but then, I never have needed the first Digg-type site. But that's OK too. I know how to start a site, if it comes to that.

I just don't understand the compulsion to make every site into the same type of site. I say, let Digg do whatever its community wants to do, whether or not I care to participate, and regardless of all the various vicious influences it's susceptible to. If I ever change my mind, Digg will be there. In the meantime, I'll be active on sites unlike Digg, doing things OTHER than what Digg does.

But if the ODP stopped doing what it does (in order to duplicate what Digg is already doing well enough), where else could the community go to do what we want to do?

If you don't have an idea, you have to spend your life chasing the last fad. And so some sites (Hi, MSN!) have to keep re-inventing themselves with yet more elaborate copies of what everyone else is already doing. But if you have an idea worth pursuing (Hi, Google!) you can just keep doing it as best you can, forever (or at least, until someone else can do it better.)