Alas, it had to happen some time
It appears that Digg finally found a small segment of our userbase and has banned them. In the last 24 hours, we’ve heard from 8 out of our 1000+ users. This low number is encouraging, since it means that this was just a small slip on our part.
We’re going to lay low for a couple days, gather information from the banned users, and figure out how to prevent this in the future. We will never stop improving our algorithms and techniques. If you have been banned, please contact us so we can ask you some questions about your usage of our service.
We are also going to lower the minimum withdrawal amount to $5 over the next few days.
A few of you have asked if we can change the Digg account connected to your S&P account. We are going to make a function to do this, but there is the issue of IP addresses and cookies. Digg can track you by either of those methods, so before we change your Digg account we’re going to have to verify that you have deleted your cookies and are using Tor. This is very easy to do… more on this soon.
Remember, contact us if you have been banned!
One obvious way to determine fake clicks is the speed at which people do it. Surely people have to take a minute between digg’s or it becomes obvious that their not reading the stories and actually just digging for $.
Likewise, Digg have detailed history on heavy users Digg history. If people start digging stories in topics they don’t normally click, doesn’t this set the alarm bells ringing?
hey guys, ive been very impressed with all the steps youve taken so far in keeping one step ahead of digg. the invisible hand of adam smith is, i hope, driving you to improove more and more, which is good for all S&P users. the attention to detail is incredible. keep up the good work, and try and get more advertisers!