Originally Posted by TheDoc

Anyone that knows how to spam, or build automated systems to spam, already knows about SU. It's on every forum, every blog, every other social site, that any person with enough skills to really spam SU, has already found SU. SU isn't new anymore.

And SU has a great deal of spam on it, it just doesn't matter. It has to be popular to take off to gain any real traffic, that will convert. Spamming a bunch of trash on SU isn't going to make you a dime. Unlike spamming a bunch of profiles, links, ect on myspace or even youtube - which can have instant or long term results if you get lucky.

If you submit a bunch of a good articles, lots of sites, and actually contribute solid material - even if it's all on your own domain networks, you will benefit from it. And any info like that is worth being on the network.

People do report spam on SU too, I have seen it one day and gone the next. So setting up profiles and voting through your own shit, doesn't take long to spotted as a spammer. And each profile would have to contribute, vote, and be active to gain traffic too. And with the overall amount of people voting things up, down, reporting spam, ect.. the network cleans out really fast.

I report spam every time I find it - I suggest everyone else do the same.