AOL busted for spamming DIGG
AOL has now been publicly called out for spamming on Digg. It was discussed in a Digg topic yesterday. Despite Calacanis' efforts, the anti-AOL commenter still got +28 diggs. Let's force this to the main page so Digg can take action. They do the exact thing on Digg that gets people banned from Netscape.
I have been trying Digg and the new Netscape this past week and it's been an interesting experience. Digg has a community of enthusiastic users, Netscape has a group of people on AOL’s payroll -
I confirmed this on the weekend when Netscape’s traffic just died.
I put my own blog posts on Digg and Netscape and then sat back and watched my logs, the Digg traffic was 20 times grater then Netscape.
The Digg community is now claming that AOL's staff is gamming the system and I believe them because of what I have witnessed on Weblogsinc in the past. Weblogsinc has had blogs without bloggers, they keep dead blogs on-line to game Google and link and trackback to each other everyday in a crass and unsportsmanlike manor .
The only way integrity can rule is for people on the web to be diligent; two bloggers with a few dozen identities can manufacture a consensus on the internet and we have to identify them and call them out.
Time Magazines list of the 50 coolest sites. didn't include any AOL or Weblogsinc properities and you have to wonder why they can't create a cool site with all the money and people they have.
Edit: - The AOL story now has over 5,000 Digg’s while Netscape has censored my post....talk about social engineering...LOL.
Edit 2- Warning: The Content in this Article May be Inaccurate - more social engineering.