NEWS: Digg Cheaters Get Caught

News/Social Networks/Digg/Jim Messenger
Found on: famousagents.com

Systems designed to exploit, scam or cheat social networking sites like Digg, Reddit, and Delicious have been making headlines recently on several prominent blogs and websites - what's up with that?

Famousagents.com post:

Scammers, schemers, and cheaters watch out! Over 700 of you just got caught.

Recently, some “entrepreneurial” folks have built systems designed to exploit - or cheat - social networking sites like Digg, Reddit, and Delicious. These exploit-the-social-network-sites have even received attention from the likes of TechCrunch and CNet.

SpikeTheVote.com has been at the forefront of the corrupt movement, and interest was amplified when the owner of the site decided to sell it.

When we learned that it was available on Ebay, we immediately jumped at the opportunity to shut down a scheme that attempts to undermine the legitimacy of Digg’s voting system. We thought, “Hey, we’ll buy it and turn it over to Digg. That way future cheaters might think twice before starting or joining such networks.”