[Offer] Stumble/Digg Exchange Thread?

[David McHenry]

I'm offering a 1:1 stumble or digg exchange

Stumble or digg this page, and I'll return the favor: Forum Contest #1: 2000 Nintendo Points - Nintendo Forums - Nintendo Wii, Games and Console Chat

[Rocket 442]

I don't know if I'd post this up if I were you. I've seen quite a few digg users get banned for it.

[OneUpDave]

I hate trying to interpret legal mumble-jumble, with a passion. But, I think this is the violation:

Terms of Use

By way of example, and not as a limitation, you agree not to use the Services:
[...]
with the intention of artificially inflating or altering the 'digg count', comments, or any other Digg service, including by way of creating separate user accounts for the purpose of artificially altering Digg's services; giving or receiving money or other remuneration in exchange for votes; or participating in any other organized effort that in any way artificially alters the results of Digg's services;

[David McHenry]

Oh I know it is, but people do it all the time and works for them

[FullMetalBabe]

x.x Not to be negative and all but that works for them doesn't mean it will work for you. \o.o/

[tryfuhl]

By way of example, and not as a limitation, you agree not to use the Services:
[...]
with the intention of artificially inflating or altering the 'digg count', comments, or any other Digg service, including by way of creating separate user accounts for the purpose of artificially altering Digg's services; giving or receiving money or other remuneration in exchange for votes; or participating in any other organized effort that in any way artificially alters the results of Digg's services;

While no lawyer myself I will try to dissect this:

with the intention of artificially inflating or altering the 'digg count'
you cannot post something to digg with the intention of just getting a high digg count/having that be the sole purpose.. aka "be the first digg to get 500000 diggs!!!" or something like that

giving or receiving money or other remuneration in exchange for votes
you cannot pay for the act of "digging"

participating in any other organized effort that in any way artificially alters the results of Digg's services
this is where they can get you with any broad function that they'd like, but it mostly means to have a digg community to do this -- however, digg will not notice this unless it's done several times by the same people

another community that I was on, we paid for somebody to develop a digg script that would randomly choose our secondary accounts and digg and/or comment at random intervals under 10 minutes... I don't know the full inner-workings of it since none of us developed it but it would also rotate accounts so that it wasn't using the same ones over and over, as well as work through a series of IPs and referrer blockers, came in quite handy

not ethical by any means though, but digg is superficial enough as it is

[AllMyForums]

does anyone know how to get on the first page of stumble in the photography section? If asked someone who's picture appeared there and she had no idea. that would bring alot of traffic