In honor of Digg implementing their image section I added Facebook Share preview support to my Cool Pictures site. Now anyone digging or sharing images on facebook will get a handy thumbnail preview. I’m also working on more robust user features so that more people can add, save and rate their favorite images to the site.

With one picture I will sum up what is wrong with Digg.

Shout spam sucks. I setup an account to see how having friends on Digg could help you get on the front page. My 992 friend sample was made up of a random sample of all active users I could find online over a 2 day period.

In the last 48 hours 992 people on my friends list have made 12,227 shouts and then 9,321 other actions making shouts account for 56% of everything that goes on Digg. If every digg in the upcoming section is from shout spam then 1 digg results from every 3-4 shouts.

The front page of Digg needs to change. If a submitted story doesn’t get enough diggs to qualify in 24 hours it will never get to the front page. This leads to the annoying 24 hour viral marketing spam that is prevalent on Digg.