Lol, that's a bug) Let's hope there will be not too many people that will use it ^^'

I accidentally submitted a couple things twice (really, I swear, they were accidents!). Sometimes you lose track of which Diggs you've already submitted and which you haven't. I had the points removed for the repeat though, don't worry.

pre ordering will get you into the beta in the next wave.  Buying the game for a friend will get your friend a copy of Elemental  no prizes or anything.  I'm working on more mod tools to make it less likely for repeat posts to be accepted.  Also we can always go back and change scores if we notice something being reported more than once.

I haven't noticed anything like that yet.  I have submitted a few older diggs and tweets and they were denied because they were too old.  So I think they are obviously paying attention.  I'm sure that some will get through.  I'm glad its looked at by people rather than just scanned by a program.

Digg linking is going to be revamped, most likely points will only be rewarded for digging Digg stories we link to.  More info later.

i originally posted just one digg link, i originally thought that it was a one time point reward to digg something. then i noticed that you could look at the leaders and what they were posting. i noticed a few of them have many instances of the digg points. so i followed suit and posted a string of relevant and recent digg articles. as no points were received, im guessing that they were denied. this im actually ok with, just asking that those with many digg point rewards be retroactively adjusted so that everyone is on the same level.

additionally, ive noticed that some of the "post a video" points people have received are just some of brad's latest videos reposted on different sites with no credit or link to the source. as this is in my opinion against the spirit of the contest and just a cheap way to accrue points, can this also be looked at?

I've already preordered, I just want to win a copy for my wife and I'd like to not have to compete with people on that level.

edit: just looking at some leader fan art...it is lord of the rings 3d models.

-J

we are looking into past entries that dont fit our new Digg requirements (to keep everyone on even footing going forward) along with online videos specifically.  We have adjusted the points you can get from online videos as well so that we don't have to just negate all those types of submissions out right but can instead adjust their values.  Our initial idea with online videos were people would make their own video not repost videos others made so we have had to adjust scoring.

I followed the current Digg requirements (about Elemental and only posted by IslandDog) and every single one was denied.

Any particular reason?

That was most of it. I've corrected the two recent ones that were overlooked in the mass of older ones.