Digg buries Spike the Vote & its Members

I’m not sure if you remember Spike The Vote? The service that was created to game Digg? Well, the owner decided to sell Spike The Vote on eBay. You’ll notice he got a tidy sum of $1,275.00 for it. Not Bad.

It’s funny then that the person who bought it, didn’t plan on using the site himself. But rather he turned it over to Digg, along with all 700 members who were signed up & EVERY SINGLE ACCOUNT got banned. Ouch, now that’s a kick in the balls.

Spike the Vote now redirects back to Digg.

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So, what can we learn from this? It’s always clever to be very suspicious of sites like these. They could be created by Digg themselves to catch you out. If you are planning in participating in anything like this, please, just create a test account.

I don’t endorse gaming Digg, I think it’s something that you can carefully plan. But if you need 50 other people to lift your story to the front page, it probably wasn’t as well written as you had first thought