Congratulations Jen !

Listen, as a gay father clergyman with a 32 year relationship and a 5 year marriage, and a six year old toddler, my thoughts go to Rick Warren....the enemy of both WOMEN'S RIGHTS AND GAY RIGHTS.

The " Great Invocator" has coupled with the "Great Triangulator" to replace the "Great Divider."

Listen, do you remember the perjorative term ' FEMI - NAZI" - well listen to the code"

WARREN SAYS WOMEN SHOULD BE SILENT NOT SPEAK
WARREN SAYS WOMEN ARE SUBORDINATE TO MEN
WARREN SAYS THAT ABORTION IS THE SAME AS THE NAZI HOLOCAUST PERPS.....GET IT....."FEMI.............NAZI"

Jen, it is NOT only the LESBIAN AND GAYS who feel BETRAYED by OBAMA.

ARE YOU NOT ALL OUTRAGED....OR DO YOU IT IS ONLY THE GAYS IF YOU ARE STRAIGHT?

Jen, thank you for posting your consciousness-raising post on Digg in the first place and also following up. As I sorted through the comments I was surprised at the rise in negativity (why are people so defensive?) but then I also began to appreciate the dialogue that you created. Whether it was negative, positive, favorable to your post or not I think that in the end I agree you did the right thing by "confronting the community and trying to make it better." I will stay posted and thank you for "staring sexism straight in the face."

I like Reddit better than Digg for a number of reasons, but a lack of sexism and juvenile behaviour in general is not one of them. There's plenty of that going on there, too; maybe simply a function of the main user group seemingly being young guys of 15-25.

Though again, Reddit is a much better alternative to Digg for a range of other reasons.

Stumbleupon does seem to cater for, and invite, more grown-up usage and interaction. Which is much appreciated. But then the whole underlying idea is a different one, it serves a different purpose.

I'd never heard of Mixx.com until I saw the responses in your other post. It seems a much smaller site, comparatively, a start-up of sorts I presume. Going also on the somewhat cookie-cutter fashion of the posts praising Mixx, I'm guessing they are better seen as inventive marketing than as substantive responses to your post.

I'm still looking for a social news/resources sharing site that does the same as Digg and Reddit but is geared to a more specific audience, to wonks, academics and NGO people and basically, well, grown-ups. If there is one out there, I'd love to know.

I like Reddit better than Digg for a number of reasons, but a lack of sexism and juvenile behaviour in general is not one of them. There's plenty of that going on there, too; maybe simply a function of the main user group seemingly being young guys of 15-25.

Though again, Reddit is a much better alternative to Digg for a range of other reasons.

Stumbleupon does seem to cater for, and invite, more grown-up usage and interaction. Which is much appreciated. But then the whole underlying idea is a different one, it serves a different purpose.

I'd never heard of Mixx.com until I saw the responses in your other post. It seems a much smaller site, comparatively, a start-up of sorts I presume. Going also on the somewhat cookie-cutter fashion of the posts praising Mixx, I'm guessing they are better seen as inventive marketing than as substantive responses to your post.

I'm still looking for a social news/resources sharing site that does the same as Digg and Reddit but is geared to a more specific audience, to wonks, academics and NGO people and basically, well, grown-ups. If there is one out there, I'd love to know.

In my experience on the internet I haven't found that making people use their real name makes a bit of difference in mob mentality insults, at least at some sites where a club mentality popularity contest is in vogue. Perhaps at a site like Digg it would indeed help. People trash others at Youtube using extremely foul language, partly due to the anonymity factor, I have seen. 
But as for your concern about sexism on the web, I have to say that the Obama campaign, whose site you post this on, wasn't particularly a feminist campaign, or one with an emphasis on empowering women. When the campaign's Youtube site started displaying videos of "behind the scenes" video commentaries from the campaign to give the campaign a face, they always showed a couple of harried young white guys who seemed to view themselves as heroes, never a woman (yet I know that out in the field, it was in many cases women who were the main foot soldiers getting out the vote from what I personally witnessed in at the local campaign office). I guess the emphasis was on youth but they forgot that some of us were also looking at them for representativeness. I think they eventually worked on improving that in the administrative selections later though in some ways no with much more diverse choices than the Bush administration's picks, embarrasingly.
Obama also made sure in the weeks just after the primary to cosy up to the religious right about abortion, making sure they knew he's up for disallowing late term abortion, regardless of whether the current ban on those has led to a lot of hardship for women who truly did need them for reasons such as severe fetal malformation (not referring here to mild retardation as in Palin's baby, but seriously traumatic fetal conditions discovered late term requiring decisions by a woman and her doctor that the government has no business interfering in).
I don't think the Obama-Biden team's strong suit is feminism. But your presence on the website blogging can't hurt and might help.

As a digger pointed out in YOUR article:'Is Digg Sexist? That is the question I've been asking myself ever since I started blogging about Women's Rights.'-Really? That's what you've been wondering? You're doing it wrong!"
You should be focusing on real issues, not the internets.
I wasn't going to respond, but your girl friends keep sending me emails about why I am a problem and not you.  The difference between you and me is that I am a strong female who is successful in a man's industry while you want everything pink and frou frou, so here it goes:
1.  The main reason I rebutted your article was because you call yourself a journalist.  A journalist would have written and asked female diggers for their opinions, which you did not.  You based it on a comment you read.  My writings have been quoted in the LA Times, but that doesn't mean I'm a journalist and neither are you.  You are not even close to what real journalism is.  You are a blogger with an opinion.  Nothing wrong with that, but don't represent me as a female.  I'm too smart to be part of your little movement whining about digg.
2. As a journalist, I am shocked and appalled that you are advocating censorship.  I am a firm believer in our Constitution, and that includes freedom of speech.  You literally went and complained to Kevin Rose and got a few people banned.  Way to go, Feminist!  (For the record, you should watch Diggnation. Kevin Rose is probably more sexist than you'd like to think.  His thoughts on female body builders and how it's not their place is hilarious. Irony!)

3.  For the first time, I can voice my opinion on digg without warning people "Hey look! I'm a girl!  Give me special attention and digg me!"  I understand the sarcasm. And how many times have women blamed men for their problems? There's a lot of male bashing that goes on. You choose to focus on a comment on digg.
4.  You were offended at the comments, but guys bag on each other the most.  First of all, all diggers are virgins who live in their parent's basement and play video games.   If you ever see an article on sex, someone will reply "What is this thing called 'sex'?"  
5.  Have you ever seen what articles DO make it to the front page: LOLcats, Rick Astley, and bacon and anything with the word digg in it.  Front page automatically, although we've been getting quite of few of Yahoo! Answers submitted.  
6.  "Make me a sammich" has become a digg meme. It's not sexist. Other digg memes are "Over 9000!" "never going to give you up" (and the entire Astley song in the thread) "all your base are belong to us" and "how is babby formed."  Those comments are not sexist, they originated from an article that was submitted, and thus, people repeat them often.  That was why when I read "make me a sammich" I laugh because I remember the article it belonged to.
7.  99% of the fun are the comments, not the articles.  Comments take on a life of their own.  If you love Apple products, you will get dugg down by anyone who uses Microsoft and vise versa.  If you are atheist, you will get dugg down by our Christian digger.  The difference between them and you is that they refute the comments in the *surprise* comment section.  That's the fun part.  You should have been there during the elections, all hell broke lose.  But the opinions and comments are part of digg.
In the end, you wanted to wasted your time on digg fighting a battle that was pointless.  Is that the kind of leader you want to be? A whiner?  God help us all if you are to represent women all over.
Does sexism exist? Definitely, but not on digg.