This week while you were napping at your desk, awakening only to hit the "digg" buttons on every single post in ToM, I was building the world's stupidest blog. It had everything that the worst blogs have: it was built out of a template, it had a really dumb name ("My Pictures of Crowds"), an obsessive focus (pictures of crowds), non-original images taken from Flickr, and poorly-written, incoherent, illogical "commentary" on each image. Plus, lots of exclamation points!
Why did I do this? Because I wanted to see if I could get my moronic droolings to become "popular" as a story on Digg. And I did it -- by buying votes on Digg through excellent Digg gaming company User/Submitter. For $1 per digg, I got dozens of paid votes. Once the paid diggs had piled up, suddenly non-paid users of Digg started digging the story too. Eventually it got about 126 votes, and 29 comments. All the comments -- many of them positive -- were unpaid, as were at least half the diggs. This is proof that people will digg anything if the crowd thinks it's cool.
Now that my story is up on Wired, I've gotten about 100 more diggs. Best comment, from alexgv:
I Bought Votes on Digg [via Wired.com]
