Blogrush - already cheated

For those of you who are using Blogrush, there is bad news

Apparently, some users have started cheating the system and hence clickthrough ratio has been very low. Here is a message passed on by a friend who is using Blogrush


IMPORTANT MESSAGE: Click- through rates are very low right now due to problems with some users cheating the system. We are a few days away from removing all abuse from the system and you will see your click-rates increase. We are also moving to a Manual Review Process for all member blogs which will also increase the traffic you receive. Thank you for your patience -- we're working hard to improve this beta version of our service.

CSS Cheat Sheet

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MySQL Cheat Sheet

The MySQL cheat sheet is designed to act as a reminder and reference sheet, listing useful information about MySQL. It includes a list of the available functions in MySQL, as well as data types. It also includes a list of MySQL functions available in PHP, and a list of useful sample queries to select data from a database.

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Another Digg Cheater

We had written about Spike the Vote sometime back.

Looks like Digg will have few more to handle .. the latest one called User/Submitter. UserSubmitter is where submitters pay the Diggers to promote their stories. The users get paid 0.5$ for every 3 diggs and the Submitters will have to pay 20$ + 1$ per each digg

Spike the vote - cheat digg

As sites get popular and potentially change the way people start looking at Internet - you get these "cheat" sites which claim to help you utilize the cheat. Be it Adsense ,Ebay or now Digg. Spike the Vote creates a community and diggs each other's stories so that they get it on the front page

Spike the Vote works on a point system. Each day I give you a mission with several stories to Digg. 20% of your mission involves digging stories submitted by users in this community, while 80% of of your mission is completely random. This is to eliminate footprints and keep things anonymous.

You earn 1 point for each story Dugg. Once you earn enough points, you can trade them in for Diggs on your own stories.

I wonder if all these really work and Digg would come up with a way to prevent/blacklist such methods.