Although I've been mostly absent on my own blogsite due to the inordinate amount of time I'm committing to building my house, I do manage to breeze into one of my favorite sites 'Digg' for a news and topic makeover at odd hours of the day and night.

However, most recently, I found myself fending off a swarm of hornet like comments that seemed hell bent on burying the likes of me and other diggers seeking information regarding the 911/Pentagon event - of the non-government issue kind.

A smartly compiled and researched presentation Flight 77 Black Box Data Shows Major Flaws in the Official Story was submitted for review to the Digg community on June 24, 2007, and was prancing it's way through 'Upcoming stories' with over 70 diggs and comments popping tastily on both sides of the kettle as it began to make it's way into the 'frontpage' were it could be devoured by a lot more like minded people.

Although trolling highly sensitive issues is typical, (actually it's expected) this particular article regarding new evidence about the data recovered and decoded from the blackbox of Flight 77 (the one that supposedly hit the Pentagon) brought with it a fire-breathing group ... with a plan.

Now I'm hopping mad, so I jump over to Diggs FAQ section and find this regarding the 'Poof' effect.

_{The promotion and burying of stories is managed by an algorithm developed by Digg. There is no hard number of Diggs/buries to promote or remove a story. It's based on a sliding scale that takes several factors into consideration, such as number of Diggs, reports, time of day, topic submitted to, Digging/burying diversity, etc. This is evidence of our promotion algorithm hard at work. One of the keys to getting a story promoted is diversity in Digging activity.
Until the algorithm gets the diversity it needs of users Digging the story, it will remain in the Upcoming section. That way, the system knows a variety of people will be into the story.}

Hmmm....

I returned to the comments and reread a few ...

Herkimer56:
We're burying liars like you and the people that support you and Alex
Jones.

(I'm not sure why Alex Jones is repeatedly referred to throughout the thread, as he was not involved in any way with this submission.)

When I asked Who is 'we'?, 'blueprint' snapped back:

I'm a 'we'. I ruthlessly bury Alex Jones/Prison Planet/Infowars articles.

Soon after that, my favorite toothless antagonizer 'Herkimer56' weighed in with this:

The CIA, The FBI, The NSA, The Illuminati, The Stonecutters, the Freemasons and, of course, the NWO.

Of course...Silly me.

There seemed to be an underlying message from this particular group of fire-breathers that registered 'slimey'.

Is this the future for Digg.com?

Some group of malcontents have managed to organize (on their own or with help) their collective venom and stumbled on a way to eliminate content they disagree with by playing with Diggs algorithm?

This really peesis me off.

Update: I've since discovered that this same group is doing the same thing to all other submissions of the same topic.

I've written abusive@digg.com and have received no response as of yet.