Comments on: News Flash – People Are Gaming Digg!

By: CarlenLea

CarlenLea — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 18:18:30 +0000

wait…wait… let me put on my shocked face!

By: Jim Messenger

Jim Messenger — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 01:36:31 +0000

Hi Brian,

Here is an update on one of the sites (SpikeTheVOTE.COM) mentioned in the CNet story.

http://www.famousagents.com/2006/12/07/digg-cheaters-get-caught/

By: mathijs

mathijs — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 07:11:48 +0000

Brian, care to explain what you mean by your post? I don’t see the problem of the linked article, maybe I’m missing something.

By: ah huang

ah huang — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 19:31:14 +0000

The hypocrisies of that article are really absurd. Look at any magazine these days and a large portion of their revenue comes from what I’d call adverticles, supposedly news-worthy articles that are actually paid for by the subject of the article. For instance, Outside ran a group of articles on which Hawaiian island was the best, all written by names in non-fiction. 5x 1200word pieces. A cushy deal for the authors who got a couple weeks stay in Hawaii. All paid for by the Hawaiian Chamber of Commerce. And look on MSN or Yahoo. Think Borat deserved so much hype, or Jack Welch’s book on leadership, did that have to make front page news, or probably 80% of what are on portal sites these days? Laughable. Not that I support people taking a good thing like Digg and making it less useful by exploiting it to their own good.

By: junger

junger — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 14:53:19 +0000

This is about as dumb as that blog pointing out that TechCrunch misspelled “BitTorrent.”

Oh wait, that was CNet too.

By: Chris Winfield

Chris Winfield — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 13:55:36 +0000

Or what site it is on…

By: Chris Winfield

Chris Winfield — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 13:55:10 +0000

@zaibatsu – it shouldn’t matter if there are ads or not, that’s why the article is also a joke. If its good content, it’s good content! regardless of what site it’s on and whether or not there are ads on the page.

By: Darren

Darren — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 10:10:49 +0000

laughed my head off when I read that post – what a joke.

By: Amrit Hallan

Amrit Hallan — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 07:48:55 +0000

Every system is open to exploitation and social media networks are not different. Wikipedia too has been used quite often for generating traffic.

As a side note: I read the CNET article yesterday after reading, I think, Rand’s post at SEOmoz. Apart from the fact that the author has her definitions wrong, she hasn’t written anything so obvious that it should have the blogging world up in the arms. It’s a technology news portal and they could be merely covering an incident. And it’s true spurious methods are used to generate links — happens everywhere.

By: Jay

Jay — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 06:36:32 +0000

I felt the same way when I read this article earlier. Where do they draw the line between “spammer” and “Internet marketer?”