niallkennedy.com — This article takes a detailed look a the "fake post" problem, an issue that plagues Digg and many other social news sites. It looks at some of the questionable posts, and follows the link trail to a dental plan site, a church and a company probably based in Bangladesh. The link trail is also littered with money, a lot of money
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newcharNov 23, 2006
I LOL'ed, I was pretty sure it was a joke.
webtickleNov 23, 2006
I actually submitted the "19 things you didn't know about death" article yesterday. Not sure if that is what people consider diggbait but as a Digg user I try and submit anything I find that I think people will like. That story had over 1000 diggs, pretty sure the community liked it. I personally don't consider it as spam, if it was spam the community should have marked it as lame or spam. I found it a bit humorous.
ampersNov 23, 2006
Thats right. Aren't we meant to dig stories that are good, and in order to work that out you have to read it first. If it is spam it can be marked accordingly. So what if some company writes a good story and submits it to digg, isn’t the idea that it will be treated equally and judged accordingly by the masses. Is there any difference between a company that submits their own articles and a blogger that submits every one of their own blog posts?If it is spam and makes it to the front page, it means that it was eighter a good article, or we as a whole eighter a) do not read the article first, or b) are too stupid to work out if it spam.
jiggnjiveNov 23, 2006
THANK YOU for doing the very same thing! :-D
tagawaNov 23, 2006
You'd better not call it digginsider - the lawyers will pay you a visit.
yahoofromNov 23, 2006
Guys. What's your problem? Don't you think spam is delicious?
alexsgaborNov 28, 2006
Looks like much ado about nothin...