Crispy Gamer was quickly climbing my personal ranking of most distasteful gaming sites, and then I noticed that they are gaming Digg. Go figure!

Seriously, Crispy Gamer is the worst. It's bad enough that they hire terrible journalists, but that they actively encourage their stable of writers to promote their dumb site on Digg is pathetic. Take my word for it that the fifteen diggers are all the same dudes, many with usernames that match up with Crispy contributors. These articles appeared next to each other, right in a row on Digg's "Upcoming" section.
Before you say that this is common in the journalism world, please know that our editors have never once pressured us to Digg each others blog posts. Sure, we are encouraged to promote our writing by emailing it to friends, posting it in the comments on other blogs if it's related news, or posting it to Digg if we think it's especially good, but we're never forced to spam social networking sites so blatantly.
Isn't web 2.0 swell guys?
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