Digg Security Hole Promotes Story with 2 Votes
September 13th, 2007 by Michael Gray in Social MediaIf you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Read my top posts or learn more about Michael Gray. Want more frequent updates follow me on Twitter. Thanks for visiting!
If you were lucky you managed to see a Digg security hole get exposed on September 12th
Below is a screen shot of the digg home page with 2 votes. The screen shot shows 5 but that because it was taken after a refresh
Now my first thought was it was one of the digg moderators pushing a story to the home page, however upon closer examination this wasn’t the case. Clicking through to the story revealed many other Digg users who were equally surprised at the two vote popular status. They rightly called it what it was spam, and proceeded to bury the story (which in this case was 100% justifiable).
What’s the lesson here, if you have an exploit, loop hole, or other trick that works, don’t squander it on a crappy story or use it in an obvious way that will get you caught and expose your methods. Use this trick on a story with 50-70 votes, you’ll draw a lot less attention. Use it on a good to high quality story you’ll get less attention. To put it rather bluntly don’t be an idiot.
Sphere It
September 13th, 2007 at 1:10 pm
And it’s already been deleted.
A quick Google search shows page in the screenshots:
http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Adigg.com+gpsmap+478
but when you go to the page on Digg:
http://www.digg.com/gadgets/Garmin_GPSMAP_478
It’s a 404.
September 14th, 2007 at 12:13 pm
Obviously the person who utilized the bug was a nitwit because he tried to get CRAP on first page.
But yeah, if you’ve got a kick ass method, its better you promote some stories worth sticking on page one.
September 21st, 2007 at 10:00 pm
Why must the smartest tactics be used on such wastes of space and viral content? Now, imagine if this dugg story was actually viral or was viral before and this front page action could’ve just heightened the Digg action. There should’ve been the 50+ diggs beforehand and YES the content should’ve been viral. Bad move, but cool and lucky glitch. Does anyone know what the tactics were??