There are many reasons the Digg Community may perceive you negatively, or worse yet, consider you a filthy social media spammer. If you take part in the majority of these activities you probably aren’t seen as a positive social media maven as you may have hoped. Instead your actions depict you as a whiney and needy nuisance.
You might be a Digg Spammer If:
1. Your only shot at glory is to slightly rip of a top digger’s icon so you might get a few extra diggs
2. Your icon is a busty woman, but you are an out of shape male
3. You have over 400 “friendsâ€
4. You only shout with one of these sayings: “shouting for a friend,” “sharing for a friend,†or “for a friendâ€
5. Your goal is to be first on each of Mr.BabyMan’s or MakiMaki’s submits just to say “great find, so informative!” or some other lame, unhelpful comment
6. You use your account status and friend network to submit the same breaking news story that has already been submitted 3452 times
7. You have never used the Digg recommendation engine
8. You leave threatening comments for people who don’t digg your shouts
9. You have shouted more than 2 different stories to your friends in a 24 hour period
10. You have dugg 2362 stories … and you have submitted 2362 stories
11. You use the comments feature to promote your recent submission
12. You always digg a friend’s shout no matter how terrible of a story it is
13. You haven’t looked at the frontpage in weeks
14. You use the shout feature to promote a story and add links to your other submissions in the message. 
15. Your had to replace letters with numbers in your user name because your previous account been banned
16. You have ever ended a shout with “digg/comment/shareâ€
17. You shorten “For A Friend†in your shouts to “FaF†because it is quicker
18. You keep trying to submit a YouTube video on your Blogspot blog
19. You send each person that adds you a list of stories to digg before you will add them as a sort of “friend testâ€
20.You IM digg users out of the blue ordering them to digg your story
21. You just let Digg truncate the titles (causing spelling errors) because it is easier
22. You sit around all day and wait for Digg to stop telling you “slow down there” because you shout too many stories
23. You’ve never dugg a submission of your friend’s unless it was shouted to you
24. You continually submit articles that are all caps to try to gain more attention
25. You use crazy characters to gain attention
26. You submit stories into incorrect categories, just because they get more traffic
27. You are part of a “voting ringâ€
28. You stuff keywords into all of your submissions for “SEO purposesâ€
29. You have only submitted 235 stories … and all 235 were from your site
30. Your username has “digg†somewhere in it
31. You shout your submissions to all of your friends, but don’t allow anyone at all to shout you
32. You use your blog/twitter/facebook/friendfeed/pownce/awaymessages to promote your stories
33. You mainly submit the story from the popular blog, as opposed to the original source of the information
34. You apologize in advance when you shout a story to a friend because you didn’t check to see if they already read it
35. When you see a good story that didn’t make the homepage, you copy it word-for-word and paste directly onto your blog
36. You can’t remember the last story you didn’t promote via IM, shouting or emailing
37. The users that digg your stories look like this:
(via original Digg story here)
While doing some of these things occasionally isn’t terrible, participating in the combination of activities on a consistent basis probably makes you a “spammer” in the eyes of many. Digg is about community participation, NOT about forceful promotion. So take some of these spammier tactics into consideration and help keep the community (and your account) clean.
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SES San Jose: Viral Marketing and Partying for Good
Aug 15, 2008 by Chris Winfield | Conferences and Events
On Monday, I’ll be presenting at Search Engine Strategies San Jose on Igniting Viral Campaigns:
In a world dominated by behemoths like bud.tv, MySpace, and YouTube, how do mid-sized and smaller companies break through to generate online destinations that create buzz, encourage word of mouth and establish relationships with potential buyers? This session unveils the secrets of Web 2.0 techniques and technologies that enable companies to stand out and be talked about.
I’m going to focus on an overview of social media marketing and especially how you can leverage social media news & bookmarking sites to make your campaigns take off. The sessions is aimed at small to mid-sized business owners and is a must attend for anyone doing viral marketing. If you’re going to be at SES – I’d really suggest making it to this 11:15am session on Monday morning. I’ll also be joined by Jennifer Laycock, Justilien Gaspard, Fionn Downhill and it will all be moderated by Andrew Goodman.
Then later that day, there will be a really worthwhile party being thrown by my good friends Todd Malicoat, Lauren Vacarello & Jon Kelly. It stems from a tradition we started with IM-NY, where at every major search conference there is a party with the intent purpose of bringing people together to network and even more importantly – raise money for a good cause. If you’re going to be attending the conference or even if you just are in the area and want to meet & network with a lot of good people – this will be the place. Here’s the details:
Who: You!
What: Internet Marketer’s Charity Party
for:
* The Children’s Hospital of Aurora, CO
* The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society
IM-NY along with IM-SF and some awesome sponsors are throwing the party at SES San Jose.
WHEN: Monday, August 18th 8:00 – Midnight or ??
Cost: $40 donation to charity (all of your money will go directly to charity thanks to the sponsors of the party who are picking up all the tabs)
OPEN BAR! Light appetizers and good booze from 8:00 p.m. to Midnight
WHERE: Agenda Lounge – 399 S. 1st St. (right behind the conference center!)
WHY: Because of the great generosity of people like…
* Jon Kelly from Surehits.com,
* Neil Patel and Aneil Weber of ACSSEO,
* Greg Hartnett, and Brian Prince from BOTW.org, and
* Jim Boykin from We Build Pages
…we are able to get together and network for a good cause.
Talk to your favorite Internet marketing folks including:
- John Marshall and Michael Stebbins of Market Motive
- Patrick Sexton of SEOish
- Andy Beal of Marketing Pilgrim and TrackUR
- Jeremy Schoemaker and Dave Dellanave of Shoemoney Media Group
- Todd Freisen aka Oilman
- Greg Boser aka Web Guerrilla of 3 Dog Media Group
- Michael Gray aka GrayWolf
- Frank Watson aka Aussie Webmaster of Kangamurra
- Brent Csutoras – BrentCsutoras.com
- Todd Malicoat of Stuntdubl.com
- Lauren Vacarello of lvlogic.com
- Jon Kelly from Surehits.com
- Neil Patel and Aneil Weber of ACSSEO
- Greg Hartnett and Brian Prince from BOTW.org
- Jim Boykin, CEO from WeBuildPages.com
- And many, many others…
Please get tickets/ donate in advance if you’ll be there.
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