I’ve been using digg.com, along with reddit.com for a while now.
 
I recently updated the blog software that is driving http://onstartups.com to support creating those cool “digg it” and “reddit” links.
 
Now, here’s my issue.  When a user clicks on my “digg it” link for an article that has already been submitted to digg, the digg.com site still pretends  like a new article is being submitted.  Maybe I’m missing something here, but it should be really, really simple to test the URL that is being passed on the hyperlink and check to see if it already exists.  If so, take the user to the actual article page where users can comment or digg the existing article.
 
Interestingly, reddit.com handles this just fine.  The same link will either take the user to the submission form or to the comment/vote for the article with no extra effort on my part.  Simple, elegant, efficient.  It just works.
 
As it stands, I’m going to have to go back in my blog software and somehow dynamically change the digg link based on whether or not the article has already been submitted or not.  I shouldn’t have to worry about this.
 
It’s these really small issues that perplex me.  It’s so simple to fix, yet I’m guessing hundreds of users encounter this every single day.
 
Hopefully, this is just some great big misunderstanding and I’m just doing something wrong (and there is a way to have a single link that will allow both a new submission or take you straight to the article).
 
Any thoughts?