Digg has been caught gaming their own homepage lol

[ly2 from WF]

Digg Faces Accusations Of Gaming Itself
http://ltgenpanda.tumblr.com/post/1403230157/did-digg-game-its-own-system-to-benefit-publisher

Jesus christ, they really know how to fail. One thing after another...

 

[goddesspoo]

OMG lol i gotta pass this on.

 

[goddesspoo]

I read the article, and have a hard time understanding what the claim was. So, the bot failed to response in a timely manner? is that the issue?

 

[Hurr-Durr]

I think it was users' fault for assuming Digg didn't game its homepage. lol.

 

[cougarclaws]

pretty sloppy work on Digg's part. How fuckin hard would it have been to generate some less conspicuous usernames?

 

[Drake]

From some political articles that went very close to front page but never made it. I can say they game the system hardcore.

Usually it is just punishing what they dont want on the front page though.

Kevin Rose is a douche. How could Digg be the totally awesome thing we thought it was?

 

[iPwnNoobs]

whats digg

 

[r3p1v]

Not surprised at all. I remember not too long ago I saw an article on the main page about retirement accounts...seriously...nobody is actually digging that.

 

[patrick24601]

Oh but a year ago people were swooning over Kevin Rose. Right now people are swooning over the people at the head of Twitter and Facebook calling them visionaries and pioneers. These are geeks who know how to manipulate things to make money. Heck - glorified affiliate marketers. And digg got caught doing some blackhat work.

 

[Joshi]

did they buy ubot or what?

 

[Gooddeal]

you dig?

 

[igl00]

oh well everybody can take advantage of their things

 

[thesanchez]

digg should start a penny auction site...

 

[RayCarter]

Digg dug it's own grave!

 

[zimok]

Digg dug is the best game evar!

fyp

 

[r3p1v]

Just checked out the top few articles, this was one of them. I'm willing to bet that is a paid placement or spam.

http://imgur.com/NeWTq.jpg

also, that giant digg ad the top is the most annoying thing ever

 

[cheshire]

Didn't Google want to buy Digg a few years ago? Then after they saw the backend of the voting system, they dropped their offer. That should have been an indication that Digg was bullshit. Welcome to 2008 everyone.

 

[robindeamon]

Digg is "Dugge'd now". GOne big time according to me.

 

[onigen]

Fuck Digg v4 :love-smiley-086:

 

[bauss]

Just checked out the top few articles, this was one of them. I'm willing to bet that is a paid placement or spam.

http://imgur.com/NeWTq.jpg

also, that giant digg ad the top is the most annoying thing ever

lol yea that ford ad is odd