01-03-2007, 04:38 PM
Quote:irst of all, the unofficial rule of Digg is: dont submit your own stuff. I understand where this comes from, but Im still against it. In my opinion, if a Digg user enters his real website in his Digg profile and submits his own stories, it shows a certain degree of honesty. Spammers rarely do that - they would rather hide their identity. I know that this stems from thousands of spammers out there who keep submitting every story from their website, but I also think that the good stuff is easily recognizable from spam and that the quality of content should be the only merit for digging or burying a site.
As you may know, when a certain number of Digg users buries a story as spam, the site will get banned. And as Digg staff pointed out many times in email correspondence with various webmasters, It will not be unbanned. Now, this is pretty scary stuff...
full article: http://franticindustries.com/blog/2007/0...to-others/