One of my websites which I regularly submit to Digg.com is being persistently attacked by spam bots, most of which are referred by Digg.com (and my submissions never even get close to the site’s Home page). This huge link farm sure has a “security” system in form of a login, pass, and a captcha, but does not protect the outbound links. It seems they are not even concerned about it. So I keep receiving tons of Spam comments each day.

I went on to Alexa and checked the stats for Digg.com.

As far as I am concerned Digg.com, the great content provider of the past, today is loosing its popularity big time. Not to mention that whenever I go there I can’t really find any useful articles. Besides making the top of Digg is now quite impossible without all the “buy digs” and “exchange votes” schemes people are using these days to promote their content.

It seems like Digg.com is going nowhere these days, it is not evolving at all and does not provide as much positive user experience as it used to. So do StumbleUpon, Twitter (this one I just don’t get at all), and the others. I think if they do not reorganize their comment and submission policies today, soon they will become useless link farms with “buy Viagra” links only.

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