In a bid to prove that Digg could be gamed, Annalee Newitz of Wired News created a “pointless” blog with absolutely no useful data and pictures and submitted it to digg. She then bought diggs on User/Submitter and managed to get the story on the homepage before it got buried.
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March 5th, 2007 at 12:32 am
Ouch! This is fake! We all know that UserSubmitter is owned by Digg
March 5th, 2007 at 12:40 am
Is it?
March 5th, 2007 at 1:24 am
Don’t you know?? It was put on sale at ebay and some fanboy bought it up and gave it to Digg for free..
I lost my account this way
March 5th, 2007 at 10:03 am
It wasn’t U/S. It was some other service, though the name of it fails me.
March 5th, 2007 at 11:54 am
It was, it was U/S!!