Is Digg allowing its own grave to be dug?

Tony Austin
Sunday, 14 September 2008 13:49

Opinion and Analysis

A recent report says there's a "Digg Throat" who is using his popularity at Digg to get paid for boosting other peoples' submitted articles onto the Digg home page.

Hot Diggity Dog (see Wikipedia entry here), it now turns out you can't trust everything that happens on the Internet, would you believe?

 

Next it'll be even Wikipedia that we can't completely trust!

 

Invesp Consulting just recently published An interview with Digg top user -- under conditions of anonymity, as you might expect

 

 

According to this clandestine interview, it transpires that:

"A little known fact is that most top users from Digg offer social media promotion services. It is easy money. Once you reach a certain number of following and you start being recognized by the community its not that hard to get a certain number of diggs. This allows most users ( including me ) the benefit of charging for such promotion..."

Digg Throat (DT) reveals other tasty titbits about the use and misuse of Digg.

So visit the Invesp interview page and have a gawk at both DT's revelations and the reactions of others, including Shane who casts doubt on the validity of the claim.

There's also a discussion in the Tech News area of Digg itself with a few scathing comments.

I've known of Digg for quite a while, but am only a very recent convert to actually submitting to the service. This has given me a few things to think about, but I don't think it has put me off.