Digg spamming on a grand scale

If you read my last line it says "I'm not thinking of doing this".

My point was just that people spend their lives trying to spam or influence search engines and I sometimes find it surprising that nobody has tried to spam the web 2.0 sites on a large scale.

 

I think its not useful thing to do because digg team would order in first place and then track the diggers.In this way you would loose all your diggers at once.

 

Great point; I couldn't agree with you more.

I think people get caught up in the moment, so to speak. They get it into their head, and follow it through regardless of the amount of time it consumes.

You are right that if the time was spent writing something original, they would probably see far more benefit.

 

I've actually hit the front pages of Digg and Shoutwire before (not though spam) and have to say it's actually pretty useful as you say in terms of links. I'm still getting traffic to the deep linked pages a few months later.

I'm sure it's happening already, you can even get some good links without coming anywhere close to the index page.

 

I hope I haven't started something here......

http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?p=1075101

 

I have heard some people have ways to game digg =P

 

I noticed that too. Looks too much of a conincidence to me
Black-hat guru!

 

I pm'ed the guy and it doesn't look like its related to this thread. Somebody has a full site set up to do it!

 

A lot of people claim that search based on social bookmarking will end spam. I think this shows that people will find a way no matter what. Even if it's sometimes easier to just create a good site!

 

I'm interested.

For all you 'Omfg ur an idiot 4 thinkin of spammin such a wonderful site'

I read the Digg terms of service and I didn't see anything about spamming forums asking people to Digg their page. What's the principal difference in that, and doing it on a larger scale with a website dedicated to digging peoples sites? Might I add that I don't even have a Digg account and/or any content which is worthy of being digged (I don't need vast amounts of traffic), so this is pure curiosity.

 

To be clear I am not actually doing anything here - contact this guy instead of me.

 

the people that are really railing digg have tens of thousands of accounts

 

There are many ppl who don't know shit beside making quick money. Actually, you don't even need new unique content. If you find something that not much ppl know, give it a cool title you can make digg front page too

if you do a story about this guy, it can easily go on front page unless someone cover it before or digg's editor think it is such a shame ...

 

How are they doing it? I would've thought that the proxies would become a problem (10k proxies?) and not to mention easy to detect (unless they login at different times/ digg other stories/ spend random amounts on accounts ect) it would be really easy to detect them with some variables and if they wanted to do it properly then it would probably be too expensive/time consuming to code for the risky reward at the end of it?

If this is true then Digg has really bad admins/security.

 

well, wouldn't it be simple if we just gave our nickname on digg and we all befriended each other and each time we saw a new story from someone, we would digg it, I mean, THEY give us the tools to do so, why not use them?

 

so what's the point of having digg? Another place for you to spam the net?

 

I don't get both ahkip and sarahk points. Please rephrase or extend your comment.