Of the million+ accounts at del.icio.us, how many of these are dupes and multiple accounts held by blackhats and other types who use them merely to manipulate the system?

It wasn't so long ago that I believe I read a post somewhere where someone admitted to having almost 1000 accounts on his own which he used to manipulate it. Now that may or may not be an extreme example, but the practice is quite common...

Congrate. Hope you merge YahooMyweb and del.icio.us soon. I want to have both social bookmarking features of del.icio.us and content capturing of YMW.

Nice addon

Well, this is the kind of Web 2.0 I like !

@ Caydel:

It's true that there are users that use alts for huge social sites like del.ico.us but the idea of someone actually having 1000+ accounts (created manually and not scripted) is not likely. Either that or they REALLY have no life.

What does that say about someone with 3,000+ bookmarks?

Oh, wait.... nevermind.

Bookmark's different, you don't have to fill out a form and supply different information each and every single time. You just tag a page, supply some info and search terms and you're done. Who in their right mind would create 1000 different accounts and supply a different e-mail address every single time?

Delicer - Web 2.0 client based on del.icio.us API can be downloaded for free here:
http://www.onecone.com/Pages/Downloads/Download.aspx

You're right Disowned, even a black hat seo won't have 1000 different email accounts.

You'd would really need to have no life to create 1000 accounts.

Congrats Joshua and the del.icio.us team. I am having a doubt. I placed my bookmarks in Delicious, but they are not having much clicks. How can I improve the clicks? Thanks in advance.

While I have enjoyed yahoo's services, I am remiss to accept the unavoidable acquisitions in recent past. The butchery that took place to Konfabulator, now Yahoo Widgets, was absolutely appalling. The worst thing about an acquisition is the loss of power and the conforming to lack of standards. These grassroots programs and services like firefox and openoffice, sites like del.icio.us and craigslist all have common purposes, to enhance the user experience, to provide useful free services on a community base. If yahoo can provide these by an acquisition and offer their infrastructure without corrupting the vision of each individual project, then so be it. I'm just a little worried that every cool new site will be Yahoo! or Google owned. Will we really have control of that? I might as well mention "stop jocking google." The new yahoo maps beta and yahoo mail beta, it's all the same. How about a text only version of the web pages so that I don't have to look at crap everywhere I look? Maybe a yahoo mail page that doesn't freeze when it tries to mock outlook on the web? Can we create something new and stop reinventing the wheel? I'm a little on edge about that kind of thing. Let's keep things fresh, please.