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>It is extraordinarily odd to me that digg would create fake accounts to promote sites Agreed. The fact that it was primarily promoted publishing partners doe
by ergo98 16y ago
>It is extraordinarily odd to me that digg would create fake accounts to promote sites
Agreed.
The fact that it was primarily promoted publishing partners doesn't implicate Digg at all: Many of these spam accounts first seek to establish an algorithmic legacy by submitting and/or digging and promoting sites that they think will do well (see virtually every "Today I learned that Costco sells caskets/survival food kits" post), and that would be my suspicion here.
Eventually once that legacy is established they move over to the actual promotion pimping.
- M1573RMU74710N 16y agoYes, 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.