Digg just announced via their blog that the top diggers list will be removed. According to them people have been misusing their list to claim that those top diggers have been getting paid to digg stories.The latest scandal came from a website called Payola asking top digg users to digg their stories for $500.

http://blog.digg.com/?p=60

digg performance was been very slow over the past week or so. so much so that i've started using other social bookmarking sites.