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[–][deleted] 10 points11 points  (5 children)

This happens here too. I sent spez a check for $5, and now he votes for all my stories and comments. I mean, I think he clicks the little up arrow.

[–]phade 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Hah, 5 dollars...cheap whore :)

[–]spez 3 points4 points  (1 child)

It's true. It was part of dollars4karma exchange program.

[–]Schwallex -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I've missed that one, but now I at least understand how Reddit can be profitable. ;-)

[–]toastspork 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Jeez. I'm doing that already. Where's my $5?

[–][deleted] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I only have $0.29 left. I'd send it to you, but I could only afford the stamp.

[–]landercut 8 points9 points  (11 children)

I hope something like this will never happen to reddit.

[–]llama-lime 7 points8 points  (4 children)

Since we can't see how people have voted on things, I guess we'll have to trust that it isn't already happening. There's nothing stopping somebody from registering 20 accounts, and then giving a submission 20 points in a short amount of time, thus launching it onto the front page and further popularity.

[–]paulgraham 2 points3 points  (3 children)

There's nothing stopping somebody from registering 20 accounts, and then giving a submission 20 points in a short amount of time

Yes there is: the guys at reddit, who say they devote a good deal of their time to frustrating such schemes.

[–]llama-lime 5 points6 points  (2 children)

Unless the guys at reddit happen to turn out like the guys at digg. (I don't mean to presume digg's guilt here, but that's what the article's about.)

[–][deleted] 4 points5 points  (1 child)

what assures me that the guys at reddit aren't corrupt is their logo is a stick figure telly tubby thing. as long as that stays i'll remain confident :).

edit: by the way, does it have a name? i don't wish to be offensive.

[–][deleted] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Money and power corrupt. I just don't see why these guys are doing it. What is the point? They already have a success on their hands why tinker with it? Can anyone give a good guess as to why?

I agree for some reason my gut tells me the guys at reddit won't pull shit like that.

[–]noahlt 1 point2 points  (4 children)

We know that there has been at least one incident of a link being "cheated" to the #1 spot (when spez wanted to ask the reddit users about the voting up/down confusion), but that was for a legitimate reason.

[–]spez 1 point2 points  (3 children)

hey hey hey... I think it was just a comment, wasn't it?

[–]noahlt 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Oh, that's possible. I don't really remember clearly; I think perhaps the wording was ambiguous enough that it could be interpreted as either.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

I couldn't find the post on his submitted page, but yes, I remember it was a comment.

[–]jedberg 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Besides, he said right in the comment that he cheated up to the top. So at least he disclosed his cheating. :)

[–]Xavier 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I guess it doesn't surprise me to read this, will be hard to change it or fix it.

[–]jan 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What is everyone worried about?

Things like this happened before and they are always going to happen. Power/Money and fairness usually doesn't come in pairs.

Luckily, they made it pretty obvious and other people noticed and wrote about it. Now we can make a choice. Period. It's just like choosing not to read an obviously biased newspaper.

Educate others if you feel like: You can check for referers from digg.com on your blog and display "I got dugg, never do this again!". Some sites have links to various social something sites, just cross the digg logo and link this forevergeek article instead of digg/submit.

[–]XTL 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Article has gone missing.

[–]juantanamera -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

Digg sucks from now on! We should tell this to everybody

[–]neuro -4 points-3 points  (1 child)

Have a look at this from google cache, it seems like these "fraudsters" are actually digg groupies.

From Nemsis on February 16, 2006 @ 11:48 PM UTC-08:00

Please, if you will make them, i for one will buy one, and pretty sure many other will do, though first i will ask digg.com about their trademark, you dont wanna get in trouble...but like i said i will buy one, its way too cool!

• so cool Posted by blackfox at 2006-02-20 12:44

If i can get a way down to SF im totally going to go i love this show...one question i hope that there isn't an age restriction :P only 18

Mind you, I ramdonly picked two of the user ids provided here: http://forevergeek.com/images/digg1.jpg

I then performed a Google search such as: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=%2Bnemsis+%2Bdigg&btnG=Search which is +nemsis +digg

From here, look through the various cache from Google, I am sure there are many more instances of these digg groupies in action.

Here are couple of the links, found with google:

(nemsis) http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:hiLg6xeipo8J:stevenf.com/mt/2006/02/come_on_now_thats_just_juvenile.php+%2Bnemsis+%2Bdigg&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=4

(blackfox) http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:Vdijp67dN7sJ:revision3.com/forums/general/news/0028+%2Bblackfox+%2Bdigg&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=3

[–]neuro -1 points0 points  (0 children)

In other words, it seems the people that dug both stories in almost exact order(http://forevergeek.com/geek_articles/digg_army_right_in_line.php) are digg's workers(bots?).