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 “friends”

4. You only shout with one of these sayings: “shouting for a friend,” “sharing for a friend,” or “for a friend”

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/share”

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 test”

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 ring”

28. You stuff keywords into all of your submissions for “SEO purposes”
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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