Just a day ago, we have posted a catchy headline on how Digg had admitted the existence of autobury in their website. However, as a lot of people have suspected, this is just a prank started by the nitmeh3, the concerned user who conducted the anti-Digg campaign.

We confirmed this when Jen Burton, the community manager of Digg.com replied to our post entitled “Autobury Exists” Digg Admits. Her comment goes as follows:

“Hey there. Just wanted to reach out directly and let you know that the supposed emails this user has written about do not exist. I have personally checked all our contact history with this person and while we do have emails back and forth with him, none of them indicate the existence of an auto bury list or his supposed place on it.” – Jen Burton

We would like to thank Jen for directly telling us what is happening. We are torn after all since the user who spread this news have no credibility to begin with. As we said in our past post,

“…the argument of the user here is somehow childish. He sent an image on the Digg website that degrades Digg itself and was surprised that it got autoburied. He then went to this anti-Digg campaign on his blog post which may also be biased.”

A lot of things have been clarified here. First, the emails spread by the user nitmeh3 are all fake. Second, Digg did not admit that they autobury posts or did they exchanged emails with this particular user. I think this should clear up the noise a little bit. However, we think that because of this commotion, a lot of people will still entertain the possibility of the existence of autobury. Not that it matters. A single user can only do so much.

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