While finding headlines for Novemberfourth.org the other day, I noticed something strange about the submissions on Digg pertaining to McCain and Palin. An enormous amount of them had been marked as being potentially inaccurate. This struck me as odd, since many of the submissions were simply true or false. It wasn’t like there was much room for interpretation. Just have a look at these examples:

Well, did he or didn't he?

A satirical voicemail can be inaccurate?

Was it or wasn't it?

So every claim made by Palin was exactly true?

So maybe Digg needs an accuracy vouching system? Where users can override these kinds of claims at times when “possibly inaccurate” is “possibly inaccurate”. However, this does come right on the heels of complaints by many users that Digg has a liberal bias and that many rumours about Sarah Palin were shown to be false. So what to do?

I think some more bury options might help. Something like “Misleading Title”, “Remember it’s Innocent Until Proven Guilty”, “Omitting too Many Relevant Facts” etc… All of these provide more precise information then the vaguer “Possibly Inaccurate”