BukkakeNinjaOGC
Anatomy of a Digg Spammer.
"Users" like this befriend en masse. Everyone knows that the big reason behind doing this is to shout submissions to one another, resulting in networks of people exchanging diggs.
However, even if he does not have a large network of mutual friends to trade them with, he can still shout to anyone he has added that has not turned off shouts or limited them to friends only. These people likely are displaying the shouts in their profile to the whole world as well, since that is the default setting.
For every one of those users he shouts to, he gets a backlink from their profile page to his submission page, giving the submission page more link weight for the terms used in the submission title. This in turn filters down to the actual article as well. Increasing search engine rankings and visibility.
So he gets rewarded for his efforts, whether his posts get ignored/buried or not. Thus him and his ilk continue to post massive amounts of stupid spammy fake blogs and articles that have no place on digg.
Why does this matter? Because these crappy spam posts clog up the upcoming sections CONSTANTLY. This makes process of finding (and digging up) quality content so menial and time consuming that it discourages many legitimate users from participating. This can have a devastating impact on article diversity.
You know, if this shit weren't tolerated, we wouldn't have such a problem with power diggers. More people would participate, and their power would be diluted. Then they wouldn't have to take silly measures like banning people to offset the imbalance of power of someone who lives and breathes digg. Lack of participation and self policing is what kills digg the most. All the measures that the site implements are bandaids to the problem. It does for this site what stimulus packages do for the economy.
My main bitch concerning the profile in this picture (and all the others like it) is blatant crap/spam posting, not so much the shouting thereof (although this is a problem as well). The shouting just makes the benefits of crap/spam posting much greater, thus encouraging it. However, this spamming had been going on well before shouting was implemented.
At least the power diggers do submit stuff people like (however repetitive it is), unlike the many wannabes who are putting up blatant splog posts en masse.
Bottom line: Although all parties have played a part in the decline of Digg (powerusers,diggers, digg staff), it all starts with the oldest nemesis of the internet: SPAM.
Anatomy of a Digg Spammer.
"Users" like this befriend en masse. Everyone knows that the big reason behind doing this is to shout submissions to one another, resulting in networks of people exchanging diggs.
However, even if he does not have a large network of mutual friends to trade them with, he can still shout to anyone he has added that has not turned off shouts or limited them to friends only. These people likely are displaying the shouts in their profile to the whole world as well, since that is the default setting.
For every one of those users he shouts to, he gets a backlink from their profile page to his submission page, giving the submission page more link weight for the terms used in the submission title. This in turn filters down to the actual article as well. Increasing search engine rankings and visibility.
So he gets rewarded for his efforts, whether his posts get ignored/buried or not. Thus him and his ilk continue to post massive amounts of stupid spammy fake blogs and articles that have no place on digg.
Why does this matter? Because these crappy spam posts clog up the upcoming sections CONSTANTLY. This makes process of finding (and digging up) quality content so menial and time consuming that it discourages many legitimate users from participating. This can have a devastating impact on article diversity.
You know, if this shit weren't tolerated, we wouldn't have such a problem with power diggers. More people would participate, and their power would be diluted. Then they wouldn't have to take silly measures like banning people to offset the imbalance of power of someone who lives and breathes digg. Lack of participation and self policing is what kills digg the most. All the measures that the site implements are bandaids to the problem. It does for this site what stimulus packages do for the economy.
My main bitch concerning the profile in this picture (and all the others like it) is blatant crap/spam posting, not so much the shouting thereof (although this is a problem as well). The shouting just makes the benefits of crap/spam posting much greater, thus encouraging it. However, this spamming had been going on well before shouting was implemented.
At least the power diggers do submit stuff people like (however repetitive it is), unlike the many wannabes who are putting up blatant splog posts en masse.
Bottom line: Although all parties have played a part in the decline of Digg (powerusers,diggers, digg staff), it all starts with the oldest nemesis of the internet: SPAM.