Spike the Vote – A bulletproof way to cheat Digg

We all know Digg and its traffic potential, All of us want our stories to hit the frontpage, but it too hard to get there. So a new community of Diggers called Spike The Vote has grown up which promises to be a bulletproof way to cheat digg.

Spike The Vote is a point based community, Diggers can gain point by digging posts by other fellow members of the community and those point can be redeemed to digg stories submitted by you

Earlier we saw Usersubmitter, but that didn’t succeed because Digg disabled account of those members who participated in that program, but Spike The Vote boasts that it will eliminate footprints and keep things anonymous.

If this community runs successfully, Digg will loose its democratic voting nature and traffic might stop flowing in. So this should really make Kevin Rose and gang worry about Digg’s survival. Lets wait and see how Digg will counter this community.

If your willing to try Spike The Vote then registration is open, but the community will start functioning only after it grows over 1000 members.

Via TechCrunch

Update: I read few comments left by Spike [The Founder of Spike The Vote] on TechCrunch, according to him, at any point of time 10 out of 15 stories on the frontpage are submitted by the Top 50 users, So in random 67% of the frontpage is ruled by them. Read this comment >> 

This comment by Spike really made me think for a while… If this is the case then there isn’t much difference between Spike The Vote and Digg. Overall it hurts Digg by Diluting it.