Digg’s and Microsoft’s Spam Control Need Some Work

Do you use digg a lot? Well I certainly don’t. I don’t have 500 diggs in the last 48 hours. I don’t submit about 25 stories a day. But what I do use digg for is to find nice articles. Articles that I can learn more tips and tricks from. Mostly article in the designing section. But it is always good to read what weird things are happening around the world. So well any who. Now get to the real point. Among my friends I am known as a Computer Wiz. Yesterday evening I get a call from a friend of mine asking me that if I had a Windows XP Serial Key. I said sorry, but I don’t. My windows stuff comes with my computer. I have a Linux CD. So he is like where should I look for one. I said google it, and you might find some. Well later in the night we met up. So I asked him did you find that key. So he is like yea it was very easy.

He says: “I typed in the term ‘windows xp serial number’, and the first one was it.” Now from my experience, the site have to be dead good to provide good serial numbers and stay up there for a long period of time. Now why did you think I thought it was for a long period of time? For competitive keywords new sites don’t rank really high. Google tend to rate older sites. But when the sites get some authority and have age, Microsoft usually catches the serial and disables it.

Well apparently when I went and typed the term, I saw the site and it was DIGG.

While it was no surprise for me to see digg rank high in google. But it was very surprising to see that it was ranking high for this. Usually either Microsoft, or Digg administration catches these things and remove it. But this submission was 1 year and 260 days old. WOW! And even sadder point is that it has 202 diggs up till now.

So what the fuck is the point of buying windows XP CDs if you can just get a torrent for it and use these keywords to make it work. Chances of getting caught is so slim. It just promotes more and more software piracy. I feel like a dumb ass for spending a lot of money for expensive softwares. But I do it because it is the right thing to do.

Well anyways after reading all the comments, This serial has been working. My friends say it has been working.

I think Digg’s Spam Control and Microsoft Spam Control need to do some work. Usually digg catches stuff like movies and what not. I know I stream movies and often times digg rank high for free stuff, but they remove it. I think this one just slipped their eyes. So I am hoping this get fixed.