Digg Tantrum

There's some things about Digg that have been annoying me recently. I really don't get how to get stories on the front page. I mean, I submit 

a cool/funny/interesting video/game/article/and it never gets any more than about 5 diggs.  The highest I got once was 24, that was before stories could get on the front page for about 15 
diggs, so it never got much attention. Even when whatever I'm submitting has had something similar on the front page, it never gets there.

For example, there was a video that made it to the front page earlier today which basically showed a cool drum solo by some jazz drummer about 40/50 years ago.
By chance, the night before I had been watching an 8 minute Neil Peart* drum solo. It was better and longer than the story submitted
to the front page so I submitted it, hoping to get some people to see it and get 
some diggs. Guess how many diggs it got...



Just one. Yup, all it got was the automatic digg I gave it by submitting the story.

It seems that to get stories to the front page you'd have to either have a lot of digg friends who will see what you've submitted and check it out or you'd have to be constantly scanning tech sites for recent news. Most likely both.

Another thing I've noticed. I've seen people digging stories/comments from Kevin Rose which seem like they're digging him just because of who he is. I mean, it's not like they're going to get anything from sucking up to him. Chances are he'll never add anyone else (assuming he's got a few people added). This sucking up can also be seen in people's diggs of comments in his submissions. 
For example, I posted a comment on one of Kevin's recent submissions saying that I didn't think the website was that useful. Which is my honest opinion of the particular website. Because of this I was dugg down for disagreeing with Kevin. If kind of defeats the purpose of having a comments system if all the good comments (i.e. comments agreeing with Kevin) get through and all the bad ones (i.e. comments disagreeing with him) get dugg down until they are hidden.
I'm all for digging down because people are insulting others or just generally being asses but digging down because of someone's opinion isn't right.

Don't get me wrong, I love Digg and I love all of its features. I visit the site every day and I'm constantly refreshing the page for new stories.
I've even recently started watching diggnation and I'm in love with the show and the hosts (Alex Albrecht and Kevin Rose).
So this isn't a rant because I have something against digg or the members in general. It's just a rant so I can get some pent up anger out of my system and point out some of digg's flaws. Those of you that read my Livejournal will know what anger I'm talking about.

* For people that don't know, Neil Peart is the drummer for the progressive rock band Rush. He's won several awards for jazz drumming and he is viewed as one of the most important and influential drummers alive today.

P.S. Sorry about the spacing/alignment issues, it's nothing I can control.