A Nomic Digg
While writing a post about Digg (which may turn up tomorrow) I had a random thought that Digg's algorithm is like its constitution.
Which lead me another random but more interesting idea: A Nomic Digg where users propose and vote on changes to the algorithm. Ideally, Nomic Digg would be meta enough to make most of those algorithms changes automatically on its own right after voting.
One of the major ironies about Digg is that the community submits and diggs stories, but they don't have any input into the algorithm that determines quality and promotes stories to the front page. Nomic Digg would resolve that problem by opening up algorithm changes to the community.
If nothing else it's an interesting thought experiment: what would happen to the Digg community if it could change its own constitution? Would it grow in a stable way... or would it implode?
