My job was to game Digg using infographics, voting networks, and bait-and-switch. It was the company's core business, and it was sleazy as hell.

If you don’t know that using infogrpahics to game digg and google was a highly employed technique, then this whole thread will be fascinating to you. (Scout’s honor, we’ve never done this, but have mapped out doing it. Where the whole infographic-strategy got whacky is when sites would make entirely unrelated graphic topics that still linked to their site, such as the history of the candy bad that links to a cash-for-gold site)

We’ve been approached a number of times to publish a infogrpahic that someone would get on digg for us. It been a cottage industry since the beginning of the year.

Also fascinating the read is the raking-over-the-coals the reddit community thinks they are doing. The ‘facts’ they think they are pulling out, when this stuff happens all the time in their community as well. But it’s nice to see earnestness none the less.