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A flaw in Digg that needs to be patched:

Update: As far as I can tell, it has been patched.  =) 

A little birdie on the syndk8.net blackhat SEO forum posted this and I thought it was worthy of public disclosure.

With all of the recent changes and updates at Digg, the administrators have seemingly completely changed the way their comment system is managed. All of the news articles from a long time ago have had all of the old comments removed, leaving only the most recent comments to be shown. This includes all of the previously popular Digg posts that are aged, have pagerank, are highly indexed and spidered, as well as the ones that rank for competitive terms in the search engines. With a few google queries, you can find some of these really old popular posts with 2000+ Diggs and generally pagerank of 2-4 with first page google results. You can then make a recent comment including any links (dofollow), which will be indexed fairly quickly and provide a backlink from an authority site. Although comment spam is pretty lame, I could see a lot of webmasters utilizing this technique because of the traffic you can potentially get. Digg pages are ranked highly for a lot of very competitive terms in google, those of which you would not have a shot at ranking with your own site. Some still get hundreds of visitors every day, all of whom who could see your URL in the comment. So if this kind of link building campaign is right up your alley, feel free to start mooching all of that incredible Digg traffic and authority… just don’t complain to me if they eventually find out and disable your accounts! For the record, I will not and will never use this kind of advertising for my blog, but as I stated in the link building cookbook, if others are profiting from a secret technique, I share it with my readers! So there you have it… you can now dominate Digg to double your traffic dude!