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Dear Digg: Please Do Something About Destructoid's Cheaters [PIC]

discussnothing.com — I've had enough of Destructoid's cheating. It angers me in knowing how they can make a quick buck just by "using" Digg's traffic. I mean, just look at this image I've conducted. They use their staff members to quickly Digg up a newly submitted article so it gains popularity. Take a look at their profiles, they Digg ONLY Destructoid articles.

Who dugg this? Made popular Aug 3, 2007

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  • n3on33, on 10/21/2007, -25/+577Here are only some of the culprits. Destructoid, if you get your staff to bury this article and it doesn't get indexed, I promise I will be back.

    http://digg.com/users/grrlaction
    http://digg.com/users/cyborgver666
    http://digg.com/users/ProfessorOak
    http://digg.com/users/DickMcVengeance
    http://digg.com/users/RonWorkman
    http://digg.com/users/DHoughton
    http://digg.com/users/Grigsby
  • Nick22, on 10/10/2007, -28/+473Seriously, I submit stuff from my own site, and some might not like it, but for cryin out loud I dont get dozens of people to digg my stories so they get onto the frontpage, I just hope that the digg community will do that for me.

    Boycott destructoid, the only reason they are such a big site is because of their articles constantly getting on the digg front page. Bury any of their stuff that gets to the front page and report them to digg
  • n3on33, on 10/10/2007, -15/+358Look everyone, BlindsideDork's first page of Diggs is ONLY Destructoid articles. My.point.exactly.

    http://digg.com/users/BlindsideDork/news/dugg
  • luckElouE, on 10/21/2007, -22/+359Here's more proof of Destructoid cheaters at work:

    5 articles on main page in a single day:

    http://img149.imageshack.us/my.php?image=gamingot0.gif

    While 10 of the 15 popular upcoming stories were theres:

    http://img79.imageshack.us/my.php?image=gamingupcomingvs3.gif

    And here's a full compiled list of their cheaters:
    Submitters:
    Typhus - http://digg.com/users/typhus/news/submitted
    Videogamefreak1 - http://digg.com/users/videogamefreak1/news/submitted
    Grrlaction - http://digg.com/users/grrlaction/news/submitted
    Nagiko - http://digg.com/users/nagiko/news/submitted
    vSavantv - http://digg.com/users/vSavantv/news/submitted
    DHoughton - http://digg.com/users/DHoughton/news/submitted
    NexFlamma - http://digg.com/users/NexFlamma/news/submitted
    HushGush - http://digg.com/users/Hushgush/news/submitted
    MorphineJim - http://digg.com/users/MorphineJim/news/submitted
    Namelessted - http://digg.com/users/namelessted/news/submitted
    Orcist - http://digg.com/users/orcist/news/submitted
    RevAnthony - http://digg.com/users/RevAnthony/news/submitted
    DickMcVengeance - http://digg.com/users/DickMcVengeance/news/submitted
    CanadianGeese - http://digg.com/users/CanadianGeese/news/submitted
    RonWorkman - http://digg.com/users/RonWorkman/news/submitted
    Diggers:
    Fierytackle - http://digg.com/users/fierytackle/news/dugg
    Bhive01 - http://digg.com/users/bhive01/news/dugg
    BrynnArcturo - http://digg.com/users/BrynnArcturo/news/dugg
    MrMxyzptlk - http://digg.com/users/MrMxyzptlk/news/dugg
    Kabojnk - http://digg.com/users/kabojnk/news/dugg
    WeeklyGeek - http://digg.com/users/WeeklyGeek/news/dugg
    GodLen - http://digg.com/users/GodLen/news/dugg
    Kalauer - http://digg.com/users/kalauer/news/dugg
    Grigsby - http://digg.com/users/Grigsby/news/dugg
    Keen31 - http://digg.com/users/keen31/news/dugg
    Gameboi - http://digg.com/users/gameboi/news/dugg
    Tazartheyoot - http://digg.com/users/tazartheyoot/news/dugg
    Dirtyknobs - http://digg.com/users/dirtyknobs/news/dugg
    Borrie - http://digg.com/users/Borrie/news/dugg
    Crisisaverted - http://digg.com/users/crisisaverted/news/dugg
    King3vbo - http://digg.com/users/king3vbo/news/dugg
  • n3on33, on 10/10/2007, -8/+215Blindside, from the looks of it, you have dugg many articles from today, yesterday, the day before, all from DToid. It does seem like you visit Digg a lot.
  • n3on33, on 10/10/2007, -12/+180Blindside,

    I digg everything I need to, you Digg only DToid stuff. And btw, they do top 10 lists all the time, so you must really not know what you are talking about. I'm not going to apologize for trying to make Digg a better place.
  • terrenceisdaman, on 10/10/2007, -10/+168Hey Destructiod, why not just support digg by buying some adds on the page instead of stealing advertising from them?
  • schmons, on 10/10/2007, -4/+161Lol this user started to digg other articles so it didn't look like he was digging only the destructiod articles but skip to page 2 and you'll see what's up.
  • AhrenBa, on 10/10/2007, -10/+164BlindsideDork and n3on33,

    Please use Digg's "reply to comment function"! It's there for a reason! No need to create a whole new comment thread in order to reply to a previous comment.
  • canewediggit, on 10/10/2007, -7/+159he called you guys out. with proof and with good cause. i like your site, i think it's usually quality and the regular commenters are pretty f-ing funny. but when you have multiple people that are here doing nothing but digging from the same exact site and nothing else, that's bs. they need to be banned.

    now you've made an accusation that most people digging this article are from competing sites. do you have proof? or just accusations because you're pissed you got busted?
  • danakin, on 10/10/2007, -7/+149Destructoid isn't the only site to do this. There are plenty of other groups that do this that need to be stopped.
  • Bioshocker, on 10/10/2007, -48/+182I don't really understand these sorts of sentiments.

    Digg provides a set of buttons that you can put on your website, saying "Digg This". Digg then encourages website owners to use those buttons. It's a win-win for Digg and for the sites - both get more visitors.

    That's what these sites do. They invite their readers to digg their articles, because yes, guess what, it helps their business.

    I don't understand what the objection is here. Would you rather their content was left off Digg? I don't see how excluding content is going to improve Digg's quality? Why shouldn't sites be allowed to self-promote? It's a darn sight better than writing the content and then having someone else's blog-spam link to your site and get the front page instead.

    Where is your evidence that these Destructoid shills are actually shills, rather than innocent readers of the site, who simply click Digg This whenever they see something on their favourite site that they like. Isn't that the point of the Digg This button?

    The most you can achieve by self-promotion is to get onto the front page. After that, the Digg community will take over and either support the submission or bury it, since they are much greater in number. If the Digg community supports the submission, doesn't that tell you something? Doesn't it tell you that you're wrong?
  • AhrenBa, on 10/10/2007, -1/+135How the hell did you find all these?
  • understudy, on 10/10/2007, -3/+133This speaks to a much larger problem on digg.

    _
  • Schmidtopolis, on 10/10/2007, -3/+128More like, "here's proof of people gaming the system, let's do something about it". Don't get mad cause you got called out. Take it like a man.
  • canewediggit, on 10/10/2007, -13/+127their stuff never really bothered me, and some of it is pretty good. but yeah, some bans are in order.
  • agrabob, on 10/10/2007, -6/+109too bad we can't see who buried this article. I would venture a guess that a lot of those names would be on the list.
  • MrBabyMan, on 10/10/2007, -1/+102I have no dog in this fight, but damn, I'm impressed with the research that went behind this!
  • DeepFreezed, on 10/10/2007, -15/+107I will digg down any of their article from now on.

    stop cheating you cheap cheats....
  • knelto, on 10/10/2007, -1/+88I love how after he was called out he started digging articles from other sites...
  • Nick22, on 10/10/2007, -9/+93Ya its funny how you guys have been called out on several occasions yet like no other gaming website has (that I know of). Also, I like how everytime there is an anti dtoid story you and your fanboys rush to the article to try and defend yourselves

    No doubt you guys have your little digger squad burying this article right now
  • usrlocalbin, on 10/10/2007, -10/+92I'm currently going to each of their pages and buring all their submissions as spam.
    God damn this will take a while, but its worth it. If everyone at least buries as many as they can, we can show those *****.
  • dustysquareback, on 10/10/2007, -6/+85You fail.
  • nonstop87, on 10/10/2007, -6/+83I'm digging this and I'm just an average Joe. If you are so popular then get the ***** off Digg and use your so called popularity to get people on your site.
  • TitaniumLizzard, on 10/10/2007, -2/+76The top 10 finalist in the Nintendo Short Cuts contest
    Gaming under the influence: Top 10 drunk multiplayer games
    Top 10 games that vanished into thin air
    The top 10 beat-em-ups of all time
    Top 10 best looking PC games for 2006 and 2007
    TOP 100 best selling DS games in Japan
    Top 10 most promising Wii games of 2007
    Top 10 DS Games for the holidays (Update)
    Top 10 Sega games that deserve sequels
    Top 10 scariest video games
    The Top 10 innovative secrets in games
    Top 10 best Halloween games
    The Top 10 ways to die in video games
    Bionic Commando makes Top 10 Physics list
    SNAKES IN THE GAMES!
    The Top 10 Snake Moments in Video Games
    Top 10 Reasons Why This Person Should be Shoved in a Wood Chipper. Feet first.
    GameFaq's Top 10 Greatest Gaming Achievements
    Excellent top 10 list of boku NES obscurity
    Top 10 Weirdest Plot Lines? O RLY?
    THE TOP 100 GAMES OF THE 21st CENTURY
    The Top 10 Most Psychedelic Video Games Ever

    ***** you and your stupid blog too.

    Links FTL
  • crackedplastic, on 10/10/2007, -2/+72The majority of the articles I've seen from Destructoid are paraphrase/clickthrough crap - hardly any original content. We've had enough of this.
  • gwhardyiv, on 10/10/2007, -5/+75You're so busted. If you wonder why nobody is listening to you, it's because you're a shill.
  • nublet, on 10/10/2007, -21/+79destructoid: worst. site. evar.
  • flippedcracker, on 10/10/2007, -5/+61if i digg one of their articles, does it mean i'm helping them cheat?
  • screwzluse, on 10/10/2007, -5/+58Holy *****, buddy... Digg implemented nested comments. Give them a shot.
  • AlmostEvil, on 10/10/2007, -4/+56It's not so much a lynch mob as destructoid are manipulating digg in order to make money. Don't you think that's wrong?

    Any sites which are purposefully trying to manipulate digg to get to the front page should simply be blacklisted by digg, so any stories submitted which link to their site doesn't get posted. That simple.
  • crackedplastic, on 10/10/2007, -5/+56*Cough* Engadget *Cough*
  • skyfire1, on 10/10/2007, -4/+54Dumbass. Why did you even bother posting it if we're lynching you.
  • glucoseboy, on 10/10/2007, -3/+51Can't digg create some sort of filtering that the users can set? Something like "block articles / comments submitted by user x" or something to that effect. Many other forums have this feature. I don't care if bogus or manipulated stories get to the front page, just give me the tools to keep it off MY front page
  • JoeDonH, on 10/10/2007, -1/+48Wow, I've always kind of ignored submitted articles that point out gaming on Digg in the past, but damn if this one hasn't caught my attention. Especially since you've become the vocal adherent for Destructoid BlindsideDork.

    Common sense would seem to dictate that the best method for dealing with a situation like this would be to have your best community representatives from Destructoid come here and acknowledge the situation, apologize, and either explain the rationale, or leave quietly and quickly. You, however, have stayed in the face of ridicule and readily available evidence of wrongdoing on your liege's part, and have tried to cover your tracks poorly.

    With that in mind, I'm guessing that this wasn't a well thought out plan on Destructoid's part and they just communicated to their members to do their bidding, and people like BlindsideDork are still here pretending to be innocent because they haven't been back to the mothership to receive instructions yet. Badness all around, but thankfully it was pointed out.

    Kudos n3on33.
  • Godlike, on 10/10/2007, -7/+50
    DIAF
  • sakuraz, on 10/10/2007, -14/+56So they love Destructoid so much, that even though they signed up for digg, they won't digg anything else?

    I don't buy it.
  • daeyeth, on 10/10/2007, -10/+52It's about damn time someone outed Destructoid. For all the ppl complaining about blogspam, I'll never guess why no one ever says that about the Dtoid crap.
  • n3on33, on 10/10/2007, -2/+43I'm not going to Link to DTOID because it will bring them hits, but if you search on their site for "top 10" you will see a TON.
  • shaun1018, on 10/10/2007, -5/+45It would be completely different if they were actually using their digg accounts.
  • Fritzed, on 10/10/2007, -1/+41Your comment offended me and has been reported.
  • Pic0, on 10/10/2007, -7/+46I said this 3-4 months ago... nobody listens
  • CalmLlama, on 10/10/2007, -1/+40I think we just have a problem with people whos only purpose on digg is to digg up and down articles for a company.
  • PigThief, on 10/10/2007, -3/+41Ooh, look, it's WeeklyGeek! We caught another one! Check his Diggs.
  • inactive, on 10/10/2007, -4/+41Yes. Now go to your room!
  • inactive, on 10/10/2007, -1/+38The 'karma' system should be changed to reconise people as spammers if they only digg stories from only one domain (subbmitting from one domain is ok i guess)
  • CReyes4182, on 10/10/2007, -6/+40Destructoid is full of a bunch of douche bags.. but I just noticed something. Most of your submissions are 1up stories O_o
  • chilekillr, on 10/10/2007, -2/+36They have thirty friends who seem to only digg their articles.

    That's digg spam.
  • Sterango, on 10/10/2007, -5/+37So reading the comments here from the Destructiod Digg up committee sayignt hat Digg encourages this type f behavior, I guess it's safe to say that with the way rules stand now, Digg will just end up as a dump for articles from sources with the most friends. That's NOT really a good system. This rule may have been fine when Digg wan't that popular, but if it wants to be taken seriously as a source to find real meaningful news, and show things that people truly deem worthy that aren't just dugg up by friends, and not have this site just be a relay for advertising, then something needs to be nipped in the bud. You can't have your site be an unbiased haven of "good" news and an escape from mainstream biased media when all you will have on the front page is top 10 lists and interviews with Japanese RPG devs... I mean think about it, that's truly NOT news, NOT front page worthy by any means, and I'd rather just scour Google news and Comcast front page or some crap if it continues being like this.
  • Elric77, on 10/10/2007, -8/+39No offense, you have have horrible writers. Your "team" of Diggers must really love you, but most people hate you and your articles.
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