Paul said:
What point is that when people can sign up again under a different name?
Digg needs its users to survive. The users can desert them for any number of
similar news sites that would be more than happy to accept them. And the users
made that point very effectively, yesterday.
Any respectable forum should make an account mandatory for posting
*and* make the applicant wait 24 hours to receive the password. Kind of
like gun purchase cooling off period (fark.com does this). This helps to
reduce the number of l33t haxxors/wankers/spammers that just want to
quickly sign up for a spray job. Digg must have sufficient numbers of
genuine non warez-fanbois to get by without these freeloading jackoffs
whose fight is with RIAA/DMCA/whoever but fail to understand digg not
only has to please its sponsors but also toe the law.