Pay-per-Digg service Exposed

[imported_Stew]

Interesting.

A pay-for-votes service has been launched that allows publishers to promote their submissions on Digg.com.

User/Submitter touts itself as a site "where Digg submitters pay for Digg users to promote their stories, and where Digg users make easy money".

Digg is a social book-marking service where users can submit stories and vote for content that they like. Submissions that garner enough interest are promoted to the service's front page, which typically leads to a spike in traffic.

The User/Submitter site offers Digg users 10 cents for every 'digg' they issue to listed stories. The publishers of those stories are then charged a base fee of $20 plus $1 per Digg.

FYI, the pay-per-digg service is located at usersubmitter.com

I tested the service out, and earned $1.50 in 5 minutes. Then I got banned.

 

[FelixDeCat]

 

[mugs]

So someone from Digg will sign up for that service and then delete all of the articles that are getting paid diggs.

 

[imported_Stew]

Originally posted by: mugs
So someone from Digg will sign up for that service and then delete all of the articles that are getting paid diggs.

Here's a quote from the UserSubmitter site.

Those wanting to bury all stories coming from U/S, note that 80% of the stories are randomly selected from Digg. Some sets are entirely random.

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: Stew

Originally posted by: mugs
So someone from Digg will sign up for that service and then delete all of the articles that are getting paid diggs.

Here's a quote from the UserSubmitter site.

Those wanting to bury all stories coming from U/S, note that 80% of the stories are randomly selected from Digg. Some sets are entirely random.

Ah, they're too smart for me.

 

[Syringer]

Why'd you get banned?

 

[MrCodeDude]

$1 per digg = not worth it.

 

[Anubis]

WTF is Digg?

 

[imported_Stew]

Originally posted by: Anubis
WTF is Digg?

You're kidding, right? Digg.com, it's the new Slashdot.

 

[yobarman]

Could be against Digg's TOS, but probably not. Either way, it will probably put a kink in the respectablity of digg submissions.

 

[neutralizer]

Why did you get banned?

 

[chambersc]

Originally posted by: Stew

Originally posted by: Anubis
WTF is Digg?

You're kidding, right? Digg.com, it's the new Slashdot.

I've never been to digg.com in my life.

 

[imported_Stew]

Your account was banned under suspicion of violating the digg Terms of Service (http://www.digg.com/tos). We suspect your account, and many others, have been involved in the User/Submitter pay-to-digg/submit ring. After days of research into the issue, we found distinct patterns and behavior that lead to the ban of your account. Pay-to-digg/submit defeats the democratic nature of digg and serves only a small collective of people, not a community. That being said, we will unban your account if you agree to not do this again.

 

[yobarman]

Originally posted by: Stew

Your account was banned under suspicion of violating the digg Terms of Service (http://www.digg.com/tos). We suspect your account, and many others, have been involved in the User/Submitter pay-to-digg/submit ring. After days of research into the issue, we found distinct patterns and behavior that lead to the ban of your account. Pay-to-digg/submit defeats the democratic nature of digg and serves only a small collective of people, not a community. That being said, we will unban your account if you agree to not do this again.

knew it .

 

[chuckywang]

Originally posted by: Stew

Your account was banned under suspicion of violating the digg Terms of Service (http://www.digg.com/tos). We suspect your account, and many others, have been involved in the User/Submitter pay-to-digg/submit ring. After days of research into the issue, we found distinct patterns and behavior that lead to the ban of your account. Pay-to-digg/submit defeats the democratic nature of digg and serves only a small collective of people, not a community. That being said, we will unban your account if you agree to not do this again.

Well, what'd you expect?

 

[ViRGE]

Originally posted by: Stew

Originally posted by: Anubis
WTF is Digg?

You're kidding, right? Digg.com, it's the new Slashdot.

No, Slashdot is the new Slashdot. Digg has and always will be a cheap knockoff.

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: chuckywang


Well, what'd you expect?

seriosuly.

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: ViRGE

Originally posted by: Stew

Originally posted by: Anubis
WTF is Digg?

You're kidding, right? Digg.com, it's the new Slashdot.

No, Slashdot is the new Slashdot. Digg has and always will be a cheap knockoff.

agreed 100%.

Slashdot is 100% prime cuts of ...hmmm...



Slashdot is like Free BSD while Digg is like Open and Net

 

[schneiderguy]

i just earned $.50!!1!1:Q

now i just need to decide what to spend it on :|

 

[Pepsi90919]

wtf is digg?