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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.
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wrote, on October 19th, 2006
That is a problem with Digg. Problems of Digg being “controlled” by a handful of users has been discussed for a good amount of time now.
When Digg released their latest update, there was a revolt of many top submitters because the algorithm didn’t support them.
Well, in all Digg should be used only as a method to get traffic.
wrote, on October 19th, 2006
I thought “artificial+smart” spammers will do that. We still got other social-bookmarking sites and i don’t see the method that they are using right now will lasts long.
wrote, on October 20th, 2006
Ajay: Yeah, folks who bring stories to the frontpage get a priority, so it gets tough for us.
wrote, on October 20th, 2006
I have been on the digg homepage twice and I really love the amount of traffic you get. But thats of no use coz they just read and go..
wrote, on October 20th, 2006
[...] Tech Buzz reports on a clever scheme that mashes a click exchange with the 80/20 rule to game the traffic at Digg. [...]
wrote, on October 21st, 2006
The front page of digg is definitely a strange mixture. It does make you wonder.
wrote, on October 26th, 2006
I have had experience with Digg lately with respect to my site. I never got more than 3 or 4 votes, but the amount of traffic it drives is insane.
I am really worried now if Google would mind me putting Adsense on these target pages. Has anyone had any warnings of any kind in this respect?
wrote, on October 27th, 2006
@Vyoma, There is no issue if you put ads on the pages that are dugg, as long as those pages fit into the terms of adsense.
@karthik, I guess you hit it well on the head. There is a major jump in traffic, however I’m sure that only a small percent of this will ever be return visitors.