Don't get me wrong Digg.com is very popular but popularity does not equal intelligent content or even good content. I've heard different people make claims that crowds can make good, intelligent decisions. That is obviously subjective depending on who is actually in the crowd making these decisions.
The Problems with Digg.com
A crowd of people with PhDs is going to get very different results as opposed to a crowd of high school drop outs. You can guess which crowd I would want to be in. So the theory of the crowd mentality known as "Group Think" is flawed from the start. No one knows the actual intelligence level of the members of Digg, their age or educational level. This makes the site as scary as the content on Wikipedia. Mobs of morons through sheer numbers can make ridiculous or incorrect content popular and worse believed to be correct.
A crowd of people with PhDs is going to get very different results as opposed to a crowd of high school drop outs. You can guess which crowd I would want to be in. So the theory of the crowd mentality known as "Group Think" is flawed from the start. No one knows the actual intelligence level of the members of Digg, their age or educational level. This makes the site as scary as the content on Wikipedia. Mobs of morons through sheer numbers can make ridiculous or incorrect content popular and worse believed to be correct.
