I remember the good old days of Digg. I could write a blog article, get my friends to up vote it (it was very easy to amass a large number of friends on Digg)

I remember the good old days of Digg. I could write a blog article, get my friends to up vote it (it was very easy to amass a large number of friends on Digg) and the result was 70,000 unique visitors. I was able to to this successfully at least twice a week. If I had been smarter, I would have monetized it. Instead, my blog floundered and I ended up shutting it down.