It seems that Digg got rid of the "instadigg" gangs, however it appears the "instabury" gangs are still burying good submissions with impunity.

Nearly a week ago I submitted an article titled: Social Networking - Things I Have Learned the Hard Way, on Designer Today magazine. The article is about my personal experiences with social networking and my thoughts on what to do and not do on social network sites. It got a good many votes (nearly 100) and 99% of the comments were positive yet 3 or 4 Digg users managed to bury because they felt like burying the submission. From what I could gather from their comments they didn't bother reading the article, they just attacked me personally and proceeded to get the item buried.

By their doing this, I realized that I had found a way to beat Digg's shiny new algorithm and was getting everything I submitted on the front page of Digg.com. Since these auto-bury folks like to bury other Digger's submissions without merit, I decided to share how to beat the new algorithm in order that others could do the same thing and get anything on the front page.

I published an article to cause all the folks like to bury stuff an even harder time. If they try to bury everything they will bring attention to themselves and maybe then the Digg staff will do something about either their abuse or abuse of the bury feature itself. You can read my article, Beat the New Digg Algorythm and Get Anything on the Front Page, and help cause a few more headaches for the Digg instabury crews.

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