The folks over at Satisfaction have a great post looking into the Digg revolt from earlier in the week. Lots has been written about it and obviously more will continue.

I was thinking about starting a pool at work, having people bet on when a Product Manager is going to bring up the Digg situation as a reason why we shouldn’t try to anything with community involved. I’m sure it’s going to be soon.

At any rate, the key to the post was this: be completely transparent with users from the beginning. That’s how all of the angst could have been avoided. Keeping your users involved is so very important when building a site that depends on their continued use. Kevin Rose has a long history of doing it and it’s too bad he didn’t start with it this time.

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