On November 24, 2007 Michael Arrington of Techcrunch posted a follow up article about Mixx. Michael highlights how Mixx is possibly becoming a "Refugee" camp for Digg users with laundry lists of complaints including, but not limited to:
The heavy hand of Digg (in particular banning)
Hate based comments and submissions
Kevin Rose's hypocrisy (Dupe submissions and Digging of supposed banned material)
Comment censoring
The Bury Brigade.
Auto Bury (Although this is officially a myth)
Since the publishing of that article, this Mixxer (Bdog2g2) has noticed a huge surge in registered accounts on Mixx. The MixxingBowl forums also gained about a dozen new members.
Based on some of the comments in the article it would appear as though some of the die-hard diggers aren't entirely impressed with Mixx.
“no site will ever kill digg. not possible. brand is too strong and all over the web.”
Many Digg users are leaving Digg to join Mixx? Get your facts straight! Digg has 15M+ users, Mixx has 45K users or .003% of the Digg numbers.
Why the heck does Mixx even matter? They’re just another Digg rip-off headed for the deadpool.
Is there any concrete (facts, stats, traffic) to illustrate this story? From what I can tell, it’s purely anecdotal based on a ...
