"How do TechCrunch stories make it to Digg's front page so often? With a little help from its friends, of course. Former TechCrunch writer Duncan Riley, now a foe of editor Michael Arrington, posted a screenshot from his inbox revealing what Riley calls "The TechCrunch Digg Club." It includes four writers from TechCrunch proper; seven from gadgets blog CrunchGear; two from TechCrunchIT, Arrington's incomprehensible enterprise-tech spinoff; plus two or three interns." - Igor The Troll יִצְחָק from Bookmarklet

Holy crap! If that is true and diggs team knows that, I think techcrunch url maybe banned/punished. - k00pa

No, TechCrunch URL certainly won't be banned, no way, really. We have been banned once and I know it does not happen to sites like TC. - Svetlana Gladkova from twhirl

Yeah Kevin Rose is Captain Crunch boy! LOL - Igor The Troll יִצְחָק

I wonder if Kevin will ban TechCrunch for a few days to get some hype for Digg? He definitely will get some PR out of this! LMAO - Igor The Troll יִצְחָק

they are all dirty. - Noah David Simon

you can actually buy diggs -- i 4get the website but you pay $20 plus 1$ per digg. - john conroy

@john: Really? You mean you really-really can buy diggs? That's an amazing surprise to me! - Svetlana Gladkova from twhirl

gregory: It's just that I've seen tons of places and people trying to sell diggs. But it is just so obvious that all these patterns are penalized that I am surprised anyone still bothers. - Svetlana Gladkova from twhirl

i happen to submit there stuff to digg, but thats b/c i like it. interesting stuff, will look into it. - Leximo

This should be no surprise, all the big players are starting to do this. Chicago Tribune employs a Digg spam force. - John Wesley

@John - shouldn't it mean social bookmarking is on its sunset boulevard? - Markingegno - Donato

Markingegno - Donato: that is a very interesting metaphor - Noah David Simon