Wired writer pays her way onto the front page of Digg
The Digg founders have long denied that pay-for-digg groups — sites where you can pay for people to digg your stories until they make it to the front page — actually work. CEO Jay Adelson said:
all the groups trying to manipulate Digg “have failed,” and that Digg “can tell when there are paid users.” Adelson added, “When we identify a (Digg user) who is part of a scam, we don’t remove their account so they don’t realize they’ve been identified. Then we let them continue voting, but their votes may count a lot less. Then the scam doesn’t work.”
But a Wired named Annalee Newitz decided to test and see if this was true. She located a site that sold diggs, and then paid them. It worked: I Bought Votes on Digg
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