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Political Bias?

Surely this would only be of encyclopedic interest if it were a professional news outlet, whose articles were written by their own staff? The stories are submitted and upvoted by its userbase, and I don't see any other social bookmarking site articles have a criticism section regarding the prefered politics of its userbase. 62.56.124.189 (talk) 01:12, 14 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

read the cited article. It is of interest. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.127.98.2 (talk) 15:18, 14 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Its incredible how long we've managed to keep this off the article when we have no problem talking about the politics of other sites. The usual excuse to not mention it was that there was no reliable sources. Now that that's no longer valid the excuse has changed to the supposed fact that 'website' itself is not biased. If the users and articles do not represent digg what does? If nothing else, its a notable phenomenon happening to the site which should be mentioned. People don't want the word liberal applied to digg because they fear it will damage their pet website's credibility.Jarwulf (talk) 05:02, 18 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I edited the "Liberal bias" section to (a) remove weasel words (WP:WEASEL) and (b) specify what kind of bias and who is biased. To be honest I don't think the section is worthwhile. It is less an observation about Digg, and more an observation about the online mobilisation of liberal political supporters. Pat Conheady (talk) 21:38, 13 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I have to agree with these sentiments and think the section should be scrapped all together. Digg is not a formal media outlet or even a blog and doesn't report or purport to be unbiased nor does it have a responsibility to be so. It just posts links. And if the majority of Digg users happen to chose articles critical of those on the right or from sources on the left, then the same could happen on the other side. To use the word "bias" implies far too much about the purpose and format of Digg itself. Another noticeable thing about the section is that perhaps, maybe, if there was some kind of study done by an unbiased source that could prove a liberal "bias," it might be deserving of a section. --Sparrowhawk64 (talk) 08:53, 16 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

It seems unfair for a site to drive more traffic to liberal opinion the conservative. Diggs policy states

With the intention of artificially inflating or altering the 'digg count', comments, or any other Digg service, including by way of creating separate user accounts for the purpose of artificially altering Digg's services; giving or receiving money or other remuneration in exchange for votes; or participating in any other organized effort that in any way artificially alters the results of Digg's services;

The source was PBS it's government. Policeforcer (talk) 23:05, 21 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]