Is Digg.com “Totally Original” Feature Useless?

Is it? Sometimes it makes me wonder, what’s the point of this feature? And how many people actually don’t submit after they see something like this already posted? Is it 1 out of 100 maybe? Yes, people will do anything to get a small piece of traffic into their web site. Just take a look at this screenshot.

No, “it’s not a duplicate”, it has a few other words there. Maybe I will get 2 additional visitors from Digg.com which will make me a million. Everyone do that… Go ahead, post a duplicate and flood social bookmarking sites with useless posts. Real

Digg.com is just an example; other web sites got this “feature” as well. Sometimes it’s really annoying, when I am searching for some kind of news and see dozens of same results.
Why won’t they tweak their algorithms to automatically reduce duplicates count? Or maybe just to place that topic in moderation if text is similar to something posted n hours ago…

At least Reddit.com doesn’t use this feature. It saves some time for submitters and got same results anyway.

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