Digg is about the Money
I’m really sick of Digg. Not only have the stories gotten crappy, but it’s become more about bait-and-switch links than a porno site. Honestly, I think that 90% of the submission have been gamed to hit the front page so that someone will get a ton of traffic and a few hundred clicks on their banners/ads or other affiliates. I don’t like being advertised to and this is getting really bad.
I’m wondering if the Digg algorithm that affects what gets on the front page should try to figure out how many ‘tracked’ affliate outbound links there are and push those down a bit.
A huge percentage of the stories are to sites with “lists” of products, websites and services that you should buy. All of them are a bit suspcious to me. I get a strong sense that many were put together by a “social media” company that’s “using blogging for brand recognition” or that it’s just paid advertising slots. Basically, asides from the rare story that links through the WSJ/NYT there’s nothing of journalistic integrity coming out of these links.
Everyone’s out for their own best interest and in some cases even violating SEC laws. One article about Apple’s speculative stock price from Macnn.com says, “Shaw Wu of American Technology Research… suggests that the potential market could “more than triple” in 2008, from 150 million people to approximately 470 million.” It doesn’t tell what his company’s and family holding are in the stock. This might as well be a pump and dump scam by Digging it up.