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Get Paid to Digg: Subvert & Profit
Posted: Si on May 20 | traffic
Ok, the ethics of this are debatable (feel free to discuss them here!), but it’s an interesting new service nevertheless.
Subvert and Profit is pretty simple really. If you want a story dugg, you pay $1 per digg. If you want to get paid to digg, they pay you $0.50 per digg.
They say users earn from $3-$10 a week. Not exactly big money, but then digging a few stories is hardly time consuming work!
Definitely worth checking out if you either want to make a few quid (a few bucks for my American friends!), or you want to get some extra exposure for your content through Digg.
Certainly worth signing up: check them out!
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I guess you can always look at the stories they ask you to Digg and only Digg them if you think they’re worth reading. I just signed up and the story they wanted me to Digg to activate my account was actually worthwhile.
Yeah, same here actually. I can’t see that anyone is going to buy diggs for something that is junk. It’s likely to be something that will interest the digg community and they just want to give it a boost.
I can’t help feel that this detracts from the whole point. Digg and social networking is all about promoting newsworthy content in a social non-commercialy orientated environment. Really good content will get dugg anyway, so if you have to resort to paying to be dugg then you are looking to promote a product or service and get a return on investment. The minute you commercialise social networking, the more cynical and wary people will be to participate in it.
I think you are right, but Digg isn’t exactly a non-commercial enterprise. The guys that run it don’t do it for love, they do it for cold hard cash. Paying for Diggs is really only a small step away from getting your mates to Digg stories or having a Digg network of users that digg each others posts.
Thanks for commenting, my post was intended to try and provoke discussion! I’ve removed the nofollow tags so you get link-love from comments too! (Really need to post about that!)
Si
There’s a few of these services, for example igotdugg.com
Does it work though? Or do the people behind digg work out which stories are being hyped?
I agree with lakedaemon. Social networking should remain free from corporate advertisting. It seems like to me basically the way Subvert & Profit works is someone lies and says that they Dugg something that they really didn’t for the sake of a dollar? That is rediculous. The whole point of social networking is to give strength to the voices that don’t have the money to expose themselves. If this kind of practice is supported, then social networking could die.
In addition one of the many reasons the Google has garnered so much success in search, is because their search results are organic (not paid). While they make money on the adsense links which are on the side of the search page they are not included in the main search results. That makes a huge difference.
In addition while Digg does make a profit on providing a system for people to social network (through advertising) they themselves are not selling their top results to the highest bidder and I think that makes a huge difference too. I will not be taking part in Subvert & Profit because I feel like it isn’t really subverting anything but rather is conforming to the same old story consumerist society. Subvert something that matters and don’t Digg or Blog just for money.
-Mike