User/Submitter™ is a Digg-buying service for people interesting in getting mass Diggs for their submitted stories. I found out about this from Read/Write Web, where the writer was not too happy about the concept:

I guess this is a sign of the times - a site dedicated to gaming digg, called User/Submitter. But there's no reason such a site couldn't exist for del.icio.us, or stumbleupon, or netscape - or any site that relies on voting. Needless to say, I hope this site gets squashed ASAP - it's at the same pond scum level as the RSS Ripoff Merchants, in my book...

You know what I think about this concept? It's great. There are no explicit rules against gaming Digg. Frankly, I think it's behind the times to think you could start paying people to do your dirty work for you. And it's not like people don't already do this, it's just this is public, for anybody to use. Anybody with a PayPal account can use this one.

I wonder what, if anything, will come of this. It's not like a lot of Diggs on a story will have much of an effect. People tend to see through corporate blogs pretty quickly, and tend to be harsh on those who look a little too contrived. I look for this ploy to work, and for a whole new level of Digg-angst to take hold, as people accuse any new story of being "bought off."

Welcome to democracy, Digg. Well, welcome to capitalism, anyways.