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"Poor Ben Kaplan. The Sports Illustrated Social Communications staffer has just been caught red-handed trying to place his hands in Digg's big cookie jar. An incrimating email, supposedly from Kaplan to an undisclosed party, has surfaced on Digg and, though unconfirmed, appears to be an attempt by Kaplan to game the Digg system with third-party assistance.\nThe email, which was posted to Digg and now has upwards of 1700 diggs, requests that the recipient, also a Digg user, submit Sports Illustrated stories to Digg. Kaplan even leads the recipient to an area of the Sports Illustrated site called Extra Mustard for \"amusing features\" he'd presumably like to see get dugg. To make matters even worse, Kaplan closes the email with an offer to provide the recipient with \"SI memorabilia (books, apparel, etc.) for free.\"\n\nWhile we can't confirm or deny that this is, in fact, an email from Kaplan, we do know that Ben Kaplan does have a LinkedIn account, and that the @SIonDIGG Twitter name mentioned in the email is active, and has tweets clearly soliciting diggs (though we can't confirm whether or not the account is legit). Regardless, this story is plausible.\nWe hope, however, that Kaplan didn't attempt to game Digg by bribing another digger in order to get more traffic for Sports Illustrated. But, with the exposure this email has received on Digg, the damage has already been done to his name and to Sports Illustrated. It looks as if they're both caked in extra mustard.\nYou can read the full text of the email below (click to enlarge).\n"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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