Comments on: How Digg fought spammers and increased page views in one fell swoop

By: Digg: Fighting Spam and Increasing Page Views « Digg Farm

Digg: Fighting Spam and Increasing Page Views « Digg Farm — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 07:09:51 +0000

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By: Michal Till

Michal Till — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 19:29:03 +0000

Nonsense. 1500+ links from a single domain won’t help you in SEO too much.

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Thu, 01 Nov 2007 19:05:17 +0000

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By: LarryD

LarryD — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 16:34:54 +0000

If all you were doing was digging your friends’ submissions then you really weren’t using it right anyway. Good riddance…

It takes you no longer to read your friends’ stories than it would have in the past… you simply can’t do gratuitous diggs as easily any more.

By: El Borbah

El Borbah — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 12:59:39 +0000

By: hdr

hdr — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 11:54:03 +0000

So what’s the answer?

By: WebDrops

WebDrops — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 10:35:59 +0000

900 friends on Digg…. woah!! thats a huge number…. well i like the new Digg interface. It is a great site so I tend to bear the loading time. Bust must add here…. some times it becomes quiet inconvenient.

By: scott

scott — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 08:34:53 +0000

Charbarred, I’m in the same boat, found tons of friends with good quality submissions, now that is down the tubes… and it seems like more spam gets to the front pages now with the annoying shout function.

By: Beth

Beth — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 08:04:21 +0000

The problem is, now there’s a whole new kind of spamming going on. The losers/spammers who add EVERYONE blindly to their friends list in hopes that they can spam your shoutbox have about driven me off digg as well. I tried fighting them, but it just got overwhelming with 20 @sshats (who seem to only barely speak English) adding me every day. I keep my shouts closed to all but people I’ve added, but it sucks having to go check out everyone who “friends” you to see if you want to reciprocate. I finally just quit looking, which sucks. For all I know, there are people I would want to add, but I’m not sifting through a hundred profiles to check and see if they’re shout-spammers.

I hate it. Hate. It.

And like Charbarred said, it’s a PITA if you have a lot of legit friends. There is a greasemonkey script to digg friends’ submissions (only submissions) from your profile, but that isn’t great either, since it only shows the title of the post. It’s better than nothing, I guess. Too bad there isn’t a greasemonkey script to make digg like it used to be, though!

By: Psychotic Ape

Psychotic Ape — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 06:58:21 +0000

Sorry but I must say I disagree, I don’t think this is what they intended at all. You would have had an easier time suggesting that they did this to avoid mindless diggs from users who didn’t read the actual article or page. I too believe it was done to increase page views, and to a lesser extent to stop mindless digs on articles that were never read (although this of course still happens in large numbers – a crowd mentality type situation).

Nonetheless, spammers are are focusing more on gaming Digg through systems like Digg-Boss and Breakthevote which actually do work, and if you sign up for such a service you’ll notice that a lot of sites using those systems are making it to the frontpage on a daily basis.