Diggbar - Are you for it? Against it? Or just don't care?

A little over a week ago, digg.com introduced their new Diggbar url shortener service.  It was instantly a hit as the internet began instant adoption.  The ingenious functionality of simply putting digg.com/ before any URL was a huge hit and gauranteed easy adoption.  But within a couple of days their were rumors flying that the diggbar was stealing page rank, valuable SEO was being lost!  And now just about 14 hours before this writing, digg founder, Kevin Rose, sent out a tweet pointing to a diggbar'd article that dispelled (or atleast dampened) the SEO stealing rumors (http://digg.com/d10RtH).

You've got to admit Digg did just about everything you can think of to ensure it wasn't stealing any page rank, but I have a seperate problem with the diggbar being used as a direct URL shortening service - You never have to visit digg.com's page on the article at all!

While it is probably good to get people to actually read the articles before they digg them, it also means they may never visit the articles digg page at all.  Valuable comments and on-site banter will be lost as people digg, random, digg random without ever participating on the site.

Also, while the random button was a great idea, it seems to serve up only articles with 1k diggs or more.  You know, the same articles you see when you visit the home page and root pages of any section.  If it's random, let it serve up some upcoming articles or even brand new ones!

A couple of days after the diggbar's release, I wrote an eggdrop TCL script for IRC bots and released it to the wild.  Unfortunately, while the URL easy digg url creator is for everyone, the xml output page (which takes up even less bandwidth to produce) now requires a developers key.  I don't know if that means I can get one and release it with the script, or if every one of the script users has to figure it all out and get their own.  But I'll be releasing a new version of that soon.

So what's your take?  Are you currently using the diggbar?  Do you like it, hate it, or just don't care?  Comment below.