Comment on Did Digg game its own system to benefit publisher partners?parentComments−M1573RMU74710N15yYes, this is precisely the theory I had as soon as I read the first several sentences.If you look at the list of sites, you'll see there are spam sites in there (ex: buzzll.com) that have diggs from the suspected accounts.If Digg is behind this, why digg random spam sites?Also, as dumb as Digg is, I have faith they could do a little better than d42, d43, .... etc.I think what we have here is a spammer testing ways of gaming the system, or proceeding with gaming the system.
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Yes, this is precisely the theory I had as soon as I read the first several sentences.
If you look at the list of sites, you'll see there are spam sites in there (ex: buzzll.com) that have diggs from the suspected accounts.
If Digg is behind this, why digg random spam sites?
Also, as dumb as Digg is, I have faith they could do a little better than d42, d43, .... etc.
I think what we have here is a spammer testing ways of gaming the system, or proceeding with gaming the system.