It happened earlier this week with Facebook and now its going on big time over at Digg.

Users of both popular web 2.0 social networks are up-in-arms over what they perceive as anti-nation practices.

Growing pains of a young nation? Heck, you could argue that the combined strength of each site (and its user base) is greater than a lot of developing nations. What happens when a nation revolts in the real world? Chaos, fighting, and ultimately a regime change.

The problem in Digg’s case is the perception that the top 30 posters are involved in a “Digg-Ring”, digging stories to the front page faster than most of us can say the word “post”. A call for Digg to release its algorithm has gone unanswered, although that would probably only cause further abuse.  The debate rages about how Digg should be used. The TOS does discourage gaming the system, but in the end Digg can be looked at for many as Delicious on steroids. Simple social bookmarking, with some added functionality like voting for stories.
Kevin Rose answers several questions about gaming Digg.

Still the middle class Diggers are not satisfied. Is this really what web 2.0 is about. On the social network front, it should be about what the users want, which as Kevin and the rest of the Diggnation brass are finding out is not an easy thing to stay on top of.

Will the angry Digg Swarm of middle class Diggers win out? Or is the whole thing going to crumble to pieces?

As Whitey04 puts it so well:

Web 2.0 my ass. More like 0.9 with a great color scheme. 

Amen Whitey04, amen.