I am a big fan of social news and I frequent both Kevin Rose’s digg and Wired’s reddit. Like anyone who occasionally visits both sites, it is very apparent that an increasing amount of content is rehashed from reddit.com by Digg power users (so called by their massive influence of the site).

I have created a handy flow chart to demonstrate this process.

While it can be argued that the content may not be original on reddit either, that’s not the point. The major question here is simply this; shouldn’t digg implement a system that promotes stories based on their merit and quality rather than the identity of the submitter?

What do you think?