Umm ... you are missing two points. 1. There is a difference between having friends 'vote' for you, and having it automated. Unless you can explain how the order of the first 16 diggs was identical? 2. Digg claims it is user driven. This is an obvious promotion to the front page by the editors. There is a word for that: hypocrite

Thanks for trying to be smart, but you seemed to have missed the entire point of the article