Digg Removing RSS Option For Publishers

February 11 2011, 6:36pm

In a step backwards towards the old Digg, Digg Product manager Mike Cieri just sent out an email to partner publishers stating the intent to remove the RSS submitted stories feature. For those of you that remember, the RSS submission feature was how stories from the Reddit publisher account on Digg were sent to the Digg front page in a rebellion against the redesign of the site last August. The email says the content is not performing well, which we can attest to and that the tool is being abused by spammers. The company will be reverting to manual submissions next week. Full email below: Publ