Get Banned by Gaming Digg

Yesterday I wrote about gaming digg for cash. The concept intrigued me. I was also curious how Digg would be able police this and prevent abuse.

Thus, I decided to try it. I registered an alternate Digg account. Then I registered at User/Submitter. I dugg two articles last night.

When I logged on this morning, there was another article to digg on User/Submitter. I went to digg it, but I got an error message saying "Sorry - bad IP address." Digg caught me!

I figured I could out-smart the system. I setup Tor to I could login to Digg using a different IP address. Yep, I had the solution....

I was able to login using my regular Digg account (I never cheated the system with this account). But when I tried to login using my "gaming" account, I was greeted with this friendly message:

What's the lesson here? Don't cheat Digg. You'll get caught. Your account will be disabled. Your IP will be banned. You'll be stuck using Tor when you want to login and do anything with a valid account. It's a bad plan. Or maybe I'm just not stealthy enough to do it.

Nevertheless, my experiment was fascinating.