Earlier I had written a post about Spike the Vote which promised to be a bullet proof way to game digg, but now there’s a small twist in the story, one of my friends forwarded me a copy of a e-mail sent to him by Spike the Vote which claimed that it can also game Delicious and Netscape too..
Spike the Vote is ready to launch! Please login and provide your Digg username so we can get started. If you are interested in gaming del.icio.us and Netscape, please provide those usernames as well so I can estimate the overall level of interest
I’ll call this as social spamming and it’s something which should make us all worry. I agree that Digg isn’t democratic anymore, but by gaming Digg, Netscape or Delicious, we are cheating ourselves.
As you may know, there has been an algorithm change at Digg. Now it takes about 60-100 Diggs to hit the front page depending on your category. Please note that you will only be able to spike a maximum of 50 votes for each story you submit. The spiking is meant to give your story a kick start; it’s not meant to spam Digg. If your story has any legs at all, it should have no problem making the front page after 50 spikes.
If providing 50 fake diggs isn’t spamming, then what’s spamming? I’m against this whole idea of gaming digg. What’s your stance ?
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