September 30, 2007

Digg disables pay-per-vote service

Digg has clamped down on a new service which claims to allow publishers to manipulate ratings on the social bookmarking site.

The offending site, User/Submitter, describes itself as an opportunity for Digg users to “make easy money” by promoting articles, while charging publishers a fee for the privilege.

However, a statement on the site says it had been forced to rework its system after being discovered by Digg during trials.

It says: “Digg has recently been disabling user accounts that have shown obvious patterns of using User/Submitter. At this time, please wait to use User/Submitter until we rework the system to help users avoid getting disabled by Digg.

We should be rolling out this new version of User/Submitter in a few days.

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