Digg staff guilty of blogspam?
Today a blog post advertising the fact that Digg were hiring hit the Digg front page. No suprises there except that the blog post wasn’t from blog.digg.com it was from one of their employees personal blogs, plastered with Adsense. And he submitted the post himself.
Anybody else think this is wrong?
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Yes, it’s wrong but they’re the staff and they can do pretty much anything they want…
Ruchir January 12, 2008 11:24 pm | Reply
And not even correct grammar - “Python thrown around form time to time”.
Marketing Hub January 13, 2008 2:00 am | Reply
I didn’t see the story, but I’ve never thought Digg to be that trustworthy. Either way, I doubt the guy made that much money from the Adsense ads. When one of my sites used to make the front page, I only made $80-$150 with well-placed Adsense ads. Not spare change by any means, but not enough to risk pissing off the Digg community. Besides, I find that removing ads from pages I want Dugg helps in the process, and the real benefit from Digg doesn’t come from short term advertising profits. And don’t get me started on the smart pricing that happens after a good hit from Digg…
Daniel Foster January 13, 2008 2:36 am | Reply
I dont think there is anything wrong with it. They should have posted it from the digg blog though.
S January 13, 2008 3:19 am | Reply
It’s hardly plastered with adsense is it. Plus wouldn’t you of posted this if you had knew before hand?
chris January 13, 2008 4:35 am | Reply
I say good for him. I hope he made some bucks.
Advice Network January 13, 2008 6:49 am | Reply
Since when is having ads on a website to cover hosting costs spam?
SPAM is information received without wanting to (unsolicited). Therefore people who go on DIGG know that blog posts posted by individuals are available.
Infonote January 13, 2008 7:23 pm | Reply
I don’t understand how it can be blogspam? But anyways, he should have directly posted the notice for hiring at their digg blog so he’ll not get into much mess.
Aurelius Tjin January 14, 2008 1:53 am | Reply
Interesting… I really wonder if he did this knowingly.
Aibek January 17, 2008 12:47 am | Reply