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Gaming Digg
It seems like everyone is out to game Digg nowadays. They have realized the power in garnering traffic from the popular top news story site, and are now on a mission to get on the front page as fast as they can. A site called UserSubmitter has appeared on the scene offering cash for Digg users to promote their stories. Users that vote for specified Digg sites get paid $0.50 for every three articles they digg, while story submitters get paid $20 per submission. How long will it be before Digg shuts down this voting chain? This totally reminds me of back in the day, when webmasters used to keyword the heck out of their sites' META tags with useless unrelated words, before search engines caught on and rewrote algorithms and ranked sites in other ways. It's only a matter of time before Digg gets its voting and submission algorithms reset and calibrated.
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Claudiu Spulber said 4:23AM on 11-24-2006
I don't visit Digg as often as I did back when they had only the Technology section. Even if they increased their userbase like 2-3 times in the last year, I bet that half of the "new ones" have an interest in promoting either their blogs or sites they're affiliated with.
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Flipsy said 4:57AM on 11-24-2006
Yeah, maybe some folks like it, but I'm back to moderated news sites like TechCrunch or TechDirt or Salshdot or this. Every other front page item is Apple-related, it gets old fast.
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proggy said 2:52PM on 11-25-2006
There's a concept of social news system using no voting. According to this article (http://hubpages.com/hub/Social_news_without_voting) the system is resistant to spam and voting cliques. I actually don't know if this thing will work.
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mark said 4:13PM on 11-25-2006
never understood the appeal of sites like digg.
i consider most people's opinion void. so why would i want to read stories voted to the top by these nonentities?
same reason i never bother looking at the "top" voted youtube videos....i know they have been voted for by idiots
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