http://www.phonenews.com/blog/digg-readers-254.html The blog of PhoneNews.com and its tireless consumer advocates. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:10:32 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 http://www.phonenews.com/blog/digg-readers-254.html/comment-page-1#comment-112 Harknell Thu, 29 Nov 2007 20:28:47 +0000 http://www.phonenews.com/blog/2007/11/28/digg-readers/#comment-112 The actual answer is that Digg and the other sites like it appear to be being gamed successfully by bot nets to gain front page exposure. There's a long standing pattern of this occurring--so any "real" site has to fight 20 times harder to get anywhere. The bots vote you down while voting themselves up. So you could be first there, but you have little chance to get anywhere unless you are coordinating your own group of people to raise your vote count--which ethical people don't do. The actual answer is that Digg and the other sites like it appear to be being gamed successfully by bot nets to gain front page exposure. There’s a long standing pattern of this occurring–so any “real” site has to fight 20 times harder to get anywhere. The bots vote you down while voting themselves up. So you could be first there, but you have little chance to get anywhere unless you are coordinating your own group of people to raise your vote count–which ethical people don’t do.

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