As far as our longevity, we feel our anti-tracking algorithms are good enough to keep our users alive. Also, we plan to expand to StumbleUpon, which is about 10 times easier to game.
<arrested-development-style> And that's why you don't make paid DIGG sites... </arrested-development-style>
Why not just submit a good article and let nature take it's course? I submitted 2 articles last week, 1 did ok, the other jumped my stats up 200 visitors for 3 straight days. (not bad for a new site) I wouldn't pay someone for cheap tricks.
Give me a good article and i'll digg you for free. With services like these, it's no wonder that we find ugly "well-digged" articles around.
- What do you work with? - I digg for money. - So you are a construction worker? Maybe it wasn't that funny anyway.