The way Jason Calacanis made it sound, the digg users now on the Netscape payroll were going to be “exclusively” ‘scaping (god, I hate that term) for the digg-like social news system. However, a look at the submission history on digg for top users Wayjer and dirtyfratboy shows that they are still contributing to the digg community.

There was never any official statement from Calacanis regarding the users’ contracts, so it’s highly possible that their deal with Netscape isn’t exclusive. However, it’s interesting to note that top digg user Bloodjunkie appears to have completely stopped submitting stories to digg, his last contribution posted at around the time of the Netscape Navigators announcement from Calacanis. So make what you will of this. In any case, it looks like I was right. It doesn’t appear that we truly need to save digg after all, though for different reasons than I had previously noted.