Last night I posted a serious warning to
Obama spammers that told them to remember what happened when
RonPaulians spammed
Digg with and endless supply of crap and then used coordinated efforts to get every one to the front page. It worked for a couple weeks, and then it got the vast majority of diggers annoyed enough to bury them as the SPAM that they were. It all snowballed from there, leading the
spammers to try to cheat the system by violating
Digg's TOS and creating multiple accounts, which led to those
accounts becoming basically useless, and now it is impossible to get a Ron Paul story to the front page. (Thank god.)
I points out that if the
Obama spammers keep it up, they could be facing the same fate as early as April...a good 6 months before the general election. Half a year of not seeing ANY
Obama story on the front page. Ever.
A funny thing happened to my submission. At one point late last night (early this morning, actually) the story had at least 15
Diggs. For the hell of it, I checked the WHO
DUGG THIS list and the
Digg history of th
e people who
dugg it. I was shocked to find several people with
Obama in their candidates list, and who joined
Digg in the last month. I couldn't
believe that they were
Digg up a story that was talking negatively about their actions. But I figured that maybe they were just legitimate Ron Paul supporters, and not
Spammers, and therefore were as annoyed as the other 99% of
Digg at the ridiculous amount of meaningless
Obama stories that get railroaded to the front page.
But then I checked today. Suddenly my submission has just FIVE
Diggs.
Ten people who gave it a
Digg last night have retracted their
Digg. And I will give you 1 guess which Diggers were the ones that are no longer on the list.
And that is the hilarious part. Just like with
RonPaulians several months ago,
Obama spammers are now just doing a search on
Obama in the upcoming queue, and blindly
digg EVERY story. So, 10 people
dugg my story before realizing that it was anti-
Obama spam. (Not anti-
Obama, but anti-SPAM for
Obama.) After they realized it (or were probably told via an
Obama forum that posts stories that should be
dugg) they quickly came back and
undugg it.
I don't know if you would call that proof, but I think it would hold up in a court of law.