[dasil003]

The crazy thing is how Reddit dominated Digg at the v4 launch. What the hell happened there? Did the Reddit community mobilize 4chan-style? The article teases us this sentence:

Please forgive the long screenshot below, but it’s important to understand exactly how Reddit blasted the Digg front page at this time

This suggests that they have something deeper to reveal, but instead it's just a screenshot showing the actual posts on the front page—how much rather than how.

[jedberg]

reddit was actually already bigger than Digg before they launched V4. There was a lot of overlap of users and people were pissed off, so they thought it would be funny.

[wvenable]

It wasn't the reddit community but rather the Digg community protesting the changes to the site and using reddit links to make the point.

[ZachPruckowski]

Many of the users on Digg considered V4 to be about monetizing the site at the expense of a lot of features they really liked.

[drivebyacct2]

Though it was apparent in v3, v4 made it impossible to notice that 90+% of digg's content was 12-24 hour lagged reddit content. As this became more obvious and v4 became more mockable, this point was emphasized and mocked by reddit and digg users alike. There was cross promotion, but I don't think many redditors were "seeking out" or trying to "recruit" digg users.