It’s sort of reminiscent of the digg revolt that happened not to long ago.  Although this time it’s not against digg, it’s about articles that are gamed by digg from one certain website.  In what digg user n3on33 describes as “Destructoid’s cheating.”  Destructoid.com made the first page on digg again.  Although it wasn’t one of their articles.

In a list compiled by n3on33 he shows how certain digg users always seem to only digg destructoid.com’s articles.  It’s very compelling to say the least.  In a day where traffic makes or breaks your website.  Digg can be a resource full tool to bring people to your website.  A whole bunch of people; literally thousands.  Along with these people come potential members and of course people that will click on advertising - making the site money.  Along with this, yes there’s more, is a page ranked link that links directly to your website, boosting your Google rankings, bringing even more traffic.

I’m sure destructiod.com is feeling the wrath of the users of digg’s democratic voting system.  I would suspect

that many users are making it a point to mark everyone of their diggs as spam.  This will eventually lead to them unable to submit their domain to digg an article.  And if proven true, I’m suspecting many user accounts will be banned.

 Respectively, here is a link to the original digg thread.

http://digg.com/gaming_news/Dear_Digg_Please_Do_Something_About_Destructoid_s_Cheaters_PIC

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