No doubt Digg.com is a popular community site. And the recent change seems make the whole community angry. You need over 200 Diggs in order to get on top of the front page. (and for just few minutes…). If you are lucky enough, the site will go over 200 Diggs and stays on the top. Previously, you only need 50+ votes to be appeared in the front page.
Getting 200 Diggs for submitted stories is not easy. Take a look of upcoming page of Digg.com, the stories are rolling very fast. Only if you have a lot of friends or readers of your site, (like Engadget) it seems not so possible to become the popular story of Digg. This explains why many popular stories are from famous sites like Engadget, Gizmodo, TorrentFreak, Wired, etc.
I am not an expert of Digg and there is only 2 stories (595 dugg here and the other one have 894 dugg. 
) of winandmac.com is heavily dugg. But Instead of having petition, I think we should think so positive way to deal with it. So here is the following 5 ways I think it may work (You are welcomed to leave comments to discuss your positive ways):
1. Not only post it too Digg. Post it to other social websites too.
There are thousands of social websites other than Digg: Mixx.com, reddit, stumbleupon and more. Submit to these sites too and make sure most of the people in the world know about your story.
2. Add the huge Digg button in the story
Putting a huge Digg button in the story lets people you’re story is submitted. Make sure you use the Digg Tools integrate to the site. It lets people to know the story is dugg, and if they are interested, they can easily vote for it directly from the post.
3. Talk about it discussion forums
Post the story to the popular and related discussion forums. Remember parts of the content and add the Digg.com link in the forums, it makes people feel easier and may dugg it.
4. Ask your friends to help and let them know about Digg
Not all the people in the world know what is Digg. So, if your friends don’t know about it, tell them. After they get interested, you can ask them to help to “push” your story on the front page. Hmmm… Knowing 200+ friends, is it easy?
5. Write the content that is hot in community
Digg.com reveals the recent popular topic in hot community. That means those topics makes people feel interested. For instance, the Digg.com has lots of Ron Paul story, you should write and think something related with Ron Paul. This is pretty important for something creative and interesting.
Okay. Having 2 times heavily Dugg means I am not so good at Digg. The worst thing is Digg.com have a auto-buried sites list, which means those sites will go to the bottom of Digg automatically no matter how many people dugg and love the story.
I have a story with 57 Dugg but unfortuately it went to the bottom so quickly. Is this means I am on the list? Or, is this means Digg.com too popular and getting on to the front page is not as easy as you thought?
I don’t know where you’re looking, but to me it seems as if the majority of the community likes the changes. (see http://digg.com/tech_news/So_Called_Top_Digg_Users_Cry_About_Digg_Changes) It’s mostly the very top submitters who don’t like it, because it gives them less hold over what gets featured. The post ‘digg is a game…’ is from one of these ‘top diggers’, & he’s pissed off that the playing field has been levelled. Point 5 makes this abundantly clear.
“Digg’s top users generate roughly 30-50% of Digg’s front page content but repeated and unexplained changes to the Digg algorithm have penalized the ability of top users to get front page stories promoted.”
While a minus for the very top users, this is great for everyone else. They seem to think that having 2% of people get 50% of front page articles is a good thing – do I even need to explain why that’s stupid?
Also, you don’t need 200 diggs to get to the front page. Actually, the number of diggs isn’t the main deciding factor – the speed of diggs is.
The biggest change is that diggs from friends just digg all of a submitter’s posts don’t count. So point 4, asking your friends, would not work in the long term.
Oh, and also, theoretically at least, the changes in the digg system should reduce the relevance of point five, as groups that diggs the same stories collectively like those on the Ron Paul forums (who pretty much digg anything pro-Ron Paul) will have reduced power on the stories they all digg together. The most important thing is to attract people who wouldn’t usually be interested in your subject to your article with great content, as these people have the most power to get an article to the front page.
The article outlining the changes wasn’t clear (to me) whether they were reducing the power of mutual friends of the submitter & other diggers – or if they were also reducing the power of people who tend to digg the same articles as each other (IE: You digg every engadget post – so do I. So when we both digg the latest engadget story — while we would create 2 diggs, we’d only count, (something like) 1.25 toward going to the front page) I hope it’s the latter, as the former will just encourage people not to have friends.