digg.com is onto us

[apexad]

I recently put up an 'article' about my site on digg.com, and had some people here digg it. I found out something interesting...

digg.com members are onto us! Several other people pointed out that many of the people that dugg my article also dug several other highly similar articles.

I think that in large part this leads to the article getting burried quickly. So, consider this a word of warning. It is of little to no beneft to create an NP$ Incentive for digg.com articles on this site.

 

[B33R]

There was a thread around here somewhere a while ago where lots of NP members, including me, got banned at Digg for misuse (incentivized digging)

I'll dig it up...
EDIT: http://www.namepros.com/namepros-info-and-suggestions/187968-digg-abuse.html

 

[TWM]

I'll dig it up...
EDIT: http://www.namepros.com/namepros-info-and-suggestions/187968-digg-abuse.html

He.. yeah basically, not trying to be rude, but people like you two are what causes great things like digg to collapse and become unusable because the system has been cheated so much.

I am glad to hear that digg is so away of the problem and actually goes to the root and bans people...

 

[B33R]

lol sure... I dugg a couple of articles (including one for Christine who has cancer and needed to find a donor) that makes me the bad guy. OK whatever you say.

Not to mention the fact that Digg sucks anyway - see this post

 

[TWM]

lol sure... I dugg a couple of articles (including one for Christine who has cancer and needed to find a donor) that makes me the bad guy. OK whatever you say.

Well that would obiously be an exception and could easily be condoned, BUT is still ruining the digg system.

I am really refering to the get paid to digg stuff. Thats not how it was designed to work.

 

[Dan]

If I wanted to know about Apple, Google, or AJAX, I could find it myself, thanks.

 

[IconPacks]

I personally don't agree with NP$ for Diggs, but I don't have much of a problem with the various other incentive 'schemes' that people offer. I put this down to the fact I am quite an active Digg user and visit the site daily. I would hate to see the system abused to the point of it turning into someone else's marketing machine.

The beauty of the system though is that the users can bury as spam/inaccurate/dupe so if it gets to the front page and it doesn't get buried then fair enough it would seem it was a good story/link and enough people wanted to see it. It's just a shame the submitter didn't feel their article/link was good enough to get promoted on it's own.

 

[apexad]

Well, to me sites like digg.com can be fun, and I do think they have great benefit. Truth be told, it's a bit like myspace and other things that are popular now days. On the front page is news that is only there because people, who are most likely just like you, thought it should be there. But if you dig deeper, you'll find other stuff. stuff that only 20 people might have liked, and you might recognize names, talk to those people, etc...

digg.com is a community that helps you meet people with similar interests. So, for them to ban everyone from namepros.com or smite them is foolish.
As far as paying people 10 cents that you earned by making posts on this forum to go digg your site, I see no harm in it.

Just so you all know too.. I gave away around 100 NP$ or 50cents asking for diggs, and my site made it to the front page, got around 490 diggs, and I doubled my adsense revnue for the month, even though the site got 'dugg' quite quickly. So, it does work as a marketing tool, yes, but everyone knows that is true, and it just seems to me that digg will not admit this.

ADD: Lastly, having people from this forum digg my story actually hurt it, as people recognize the common diggs and bad coments, so from this day foward I vow to not digg people's sites or articles for NP$