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It won't work if all the accounts were opened in a short space of time - it will just raise the spam flags very quickly.

You need to go about this the genuine way and let the digg community decide.

If your article is crap it will just get buried anyway. If it wasn't meant to be on the front page chances are you won't get much traffic, you'll get buried quickly, and no-one will link to you either.

 

Do they ban accounts if you use the same IP if they vote on the same story? And Jason, they don't all need to be opened consecutively.

For example, a new digg story about a fairly popular subject is going to get quite a few diggs. However, if you submit another one similar to the original one that was submitted and say it has 5 diggs, people are going to ignore yours. On the other hand, if you manage to get 20+ diggs on your story which was submitted after the original one, aren't people more likely to carry on digging yours, thinking that yours was actually first, because it has more diggs. And from there on, the community will decide.

If you can see what I'm saying - the technique I posted about (opening multiple diggs accounts) will work to give it a boost in my opinion, taking into account that the story is not completely awful of course.

 

they do ban accounts for the same IP.

If you open up lots of accounts at once and they all vote for one particular submission you will get banned.

If you have multiple accounts that consitently vote for the same site/submissions you will get caught.

Digg also don't always ban you - they put you on a watchlist to help them fight spam (so ive heard)