Digg Manipulation, Scoble Comments and more...
Luke Hutteman posted about how easily digg is manipulated.
"Due to the automated nature of Digg (which uses user-votes to determine how prominently to display a story) it certainly seems possible for a group of people to get together and promote stories in order to get them onto the coveted front page, while at the same time burying stories they don't like. "
Which I totally agree with. See my previous rant on digg.
And here is another sample of link manipulation - Scoble comments. It was total surprise for me about what I found (I'm not sure about if he knows about it either):
"Seriously, though, if you re a company or a blogger and want a link, you don't need to suck up. Just go to my comment and post your freaking URL along with a pitch of why your blog, software, new idea, etc rocks. But more on that in a bit."
It is unfair big time. Why ? Because he has "nofollow" on each and every link (including commenters urls) in his comments.
Sunday, March 19, 2006 5:37 PM
