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http://www.roughlydrafted.com/
Its entries in Digg were being attacked by trollers who were dragging the threads into the gutter. Digg overacted and banned Roughly Drafted instead of the trollers.
Unfortunately, Digg has enslaved bloggers with their easy to use one-click Digg link and some promise of 15 minutes of fame on the net. I think it's a scam.
I find Digg highjacks blogger's ideas. The threads on Digg take on a wild-west-anything-goes life of their own and I find it distracts from the blogger's theses.
I've found that threads at the blogger's site are more civilized and on point. So I prefer discussing things on the blogger's site.
I don't dig Digg because they're self-agrandizing, censoring the wrong people, and ultimately not valuable to the dissemination of ideas. I boycott Digg and think everyone should do the same.
Digg needs to get a life! I think we should all just quit this Digg madness and see what happens to them. I know they would be sorry.
As they regularly ban members of Ecademy (17 recently - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/11/23/ecademy...) for disagreeing with the management, they deserve it. Now if only Google would see them for what they are.
http://www.wolf-howl.com/grayhat-seo/how-to-be-...
It's a rather interesting case study
But of course, if a story is a real gem -someone could use a redirt url
a post highlighting our own plight:
http://travolution.blogspot.com/2006/12/we-are-...
The frustration for us is that we have been talking up Digg as one of the facets of Web 2.0, and in turn Travel 2.0, for months, but when our URLs were banned they refused to answer press enquiries about the general issue, as well as webmaster-related ones about our own particular problem.
LOL, I wonder who he was? =P
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Don't let this injustice happen without a fight.
Quote from our discussion:
"When Danny attempted to contact Digg regarding this issue, as we are still a small site trying to expand, and one of the avenues we've selected in order to achieve this is through partnerships with sites like digg to get our content out there - he received the following (I presume automated) response from digg:
Quote:
When submitted stories are consistently reported as spam and users complain via our feedback email about submission spam, we ban the domain. The domain will not be unbanned. The domain would consistently get reported as spam otherwise.
-The Digg Watch Team."
I'd like someone to tell me what I did to deserve it though!
It tried to dig someone's entry late last year. The same message came up. After some research I realized, they were no longer allowing any diggs from that URL.
BANNED.
Oh well, I'm curious to see where this is all going to lead. I find it amusing to find out that a 12 year old is one of the most active DIGG'ers. A twelve year old? His father monitors his activity from his employment.
That's probably why the comebacks consist of "Your blog sucks".
First some background.
After running the website Scifi2u.com for the last year we realised there was a demand for a scifi digg type website – 6 Days ago ScifiDigg.com was born and is powered by open source Pligg and the YouTube API.
So what went wrong?
The site went live on the 22 March 2007. People submitted stories and video links to digg and other sites del.icio.us, Yahoo, Simply and Reddit. Having a submit button makes submitting very easy and fast but that could be a problem.
Let’s get to the point
WITHIN 6 DAYS THE SITE HAS BEEN BANNED FROM DIGG
Digg’s moderators decided that since the link pointed to my site and the posts are mainly videos from YouTube ScifiDigg should be banned from digg and no other links from scifidigg.com can be posted to digg.
Digg’s response
I contacted digg to find out what happened and why they blocked my site. The response I got from them was that my site violated their terms of use, by copying another site. I explained to them that although the video is streamed by YouTube we give the facility for original coments to be added.
The response I got was that they do not allow sites that copy other sites to be submitted to digg. I told them that according to their rules they should also ban Yahoo news, since it does not have an original content but republish articles from PCWorld, Reuters, MACWorld and others. Also falls under this category other major sites like neowin.net, blink.nu and many more that are doing exactly the same infact they should ban YouTube because the video content is often copied from other video websites. But hey, they are big sites and digg can’t pick on them without repercussion, like they can pick on small blogs that try to establish themselves.
So what have we learned?
· Digg’s users don’t really determine what gets promoted, but digg’s moderators do.
· Digg have a different set of rules for small site and different rules for big sites, even though both are doing the same.
· Digg will ban a small site just because one of its user’s submitted an article that other digg members liked and promoted, but moderator didn’t like the link.
· Digg will not listen to reason when told that the site did not violate its TOS.
god damn them..
Join us to fight ,
they have same reply format,
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When submitted stories are consistently reported as spam and users complain via our feedback email about submission spam, we ban the domain. The domain will not be unbanned. The domain would consistently get reported as spam otherwise.
-The Digg Watch Team.â€