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Ahhh, my first bribe on Digg :)

"We have a website we want to get frontpaged on Digg. We have the headline and the description. You have the account. $10,000 bank transfer. $5000 deposit and the rest once it hits front page. Let me know."

I very politely told them to "get lost". Didn't they read the disclaimer on my site before they contacted me?

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10 months, 3 weeks ago by Adam L.

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Brandy H. replied Aug 27th

that is CRAZY!
Cameron R. replied Aug 27th

Thats Nuts.
MikeonTV . replied Aug 27th

Whats the page? could be a prank or a test. No front page story is worth that.
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Billy D. replied Aug 27th

I'll says it's nuts. I can be bought for MUCH less than that. ;-)
Adam L. replied Aug 27th

He didn't supply a page, title or description. The email was sent from a Gmail account (I was going to publish his name in the post but thought it was probably wise not to).
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Kabren L. replied Aug 27th

Oh my god...

Digg payoff!
Andrew S. replied Aug 27th

I'm jealous. I've never received an offer like that. What am I doing wrong?!
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Kevin V. replied Aug 27th

Well $10,000 is nothing when it comes to "advertising" on the front page of a high traffic site like Digg. And essentially they are buying advertising, but getting so much more since a front page positioning on Digg comes with a generally understanding of how it got there by its popularity.
Lindsay B. replied Aug 27th

I know it's terrible, but I wish someone offered me $10,000 to post an article to digg. I need money!
Ben H. replied Aug 27th

for 10,000 dollars I would have done it now questions asked.
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Staci T. replied Aug 27th

lol sadly I probably would've thought about it. $10,000?! That's insane!
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Fake W. replied Aug 27th

pht... Front page on digg is worth way more than 10-grand.
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Admiral A. replied Aug 27th

Admiral Ackbar would've had a hard time deciding whether or not to accept.

In the end it would've been a flat NO!
Tamar W. replied Aug 27th

haha, brilliant!!!
Michael W. replied Aug 27th

I would have done in - no questions asked.
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Raúl C. replied Aug 27th

I wouldn't have asked any questions and denied, just as you did. Congrats.
Max B. replied Aug 27th

For 10,000 dollars I would have bent over, taken it like a bitch, AND gotten a story front paged on Digg... But I desperately need money, lol.
Mikey .. replied Aug 27th

um.. hmm. a friend of mine made $1200 for getting to the bottom of the front page of digg.. can't imagine what the top of front page would do. Well.. actually now I know.. $10k
Ross M. replied Aug 27th

@Fake Woz - "Front page on digg is worth way more than 10-grand."

That was a joke right? As someone who has a site that has been on the front page of digg more than a dozen times (I hope that doesn't come across as bragging, it's really not meant that way), I wouldn't have paid $100 for any one of them. $10k can buy you a hell of a lot of advertising over time, rather than the thousands of clicks over a day or two that digg generates.
Pat B. replied Aug 28th

Holy crap dude, that'd be really really tempting. That's big of you to turn that down.
Howard O. replied Aug 28th

There is no honor amongst geeks.
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Sid Y. replied Aug 28th

The world needs more people like you - nice!
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Chafic H. replied Aug 28th

I wonder if someone was testing to see if you would do it! It's great to see that some diggers have some dignity :)
Joel W. replied Aug 28th

I got a weird email like that asking me to do a 60 second animation for a product launch of a web start up. Im not an animator but I am an illustrator, so Im not sure if it was spam or what.

Can we officially coin the term "Diggola"?

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