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Techcrunch is reporting that a new digg gaming service, Subvert and Profit has just launched. The service charges people for $1 for a digg vote and diggers get paid $0.5 for every digg that they will do on behalf of their payees. The service in an attempt to sound legit call the vote buyers as “advertisers” and also runs an affiliate program by offering to pay 10% of your referred users earning to you.
The service is yet another attempt at a potentially lucrative market called Digg Gaming. Over time Digg has really become a heaven for gamers and spammers, accept it or not but its quiet true. With the sheer amount of traffic that digg sends to sites hitting its main page, not many people can resist the temptation.
Other similar services included SpiketheVote and usersubmitter. While spikethevote was sold on ebay for $1,275, usersubmitter is kicking ass. The site is reporting that they are not taking any more submissions because of being overbooked. Yes Mike this is exactly what they are saying (see snapshot below).
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User/Submitter is only “overbooked” because they have essentially ceased operation. They have not accepted a single story for the past three weeks.
We are going to obliterate them.
Atleast mention your affiliation. Do you belong to Digg or to Subvert and Profit. What “We” here means?
Bilal,
Ragnar “signature” points to subvertandprofit.
In the post, did you mean “it is quiet true”?
Nice site.
What I mean by “it is quiet true” is that due to the huge benefits of hitting the front page of digg, the spammers have really taken oath(sort of) to accomplish this milestone.
So among all social networking sites, digg will be the most targeted one by spammers. I don’t know how you guys take it but I take it as a good thing, because if digg somehow comes up the winner in this war, it will have what we might call the best spam protection algorithms and mechanisms in place on this planet.
So if they got beaten by spammers well then they’ll deserve it, and if they beat them then too it will be a well deserved victory. In general adversaries make us stronger, so I am counting on them to be stronger and better by the day.