In my previous post we talked about Digg recent changes to nofollow on all external links but is Digg really nofollow?

After taking a closer look Digg is still do follow or at least links from comments on old pages are.Here’s the proof:

If we browse Digg old pages we will see that many of them are heavily spammed with viagra, drug rehab and pharmaceutical links.I took my time and sent a email to Digg support letting them know about this,look what they said:

I thought that this is a auto generated email so i send them one more telling them that I am not very happy with their way to threat a user who tries to give them a little help.Here’s what they answer:

Digg obviously doesn’t want to give us more details about this update but i think they did a very lousy job when comes about spam.