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Re: And the List of Domains Ditched by Digg Keeps Growing

online High School — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 01:57:37 -0000

equate to spam. Digg wouldn't know spam if it bit 'em in the butt. A perfect example is Lee Odden's blog. Those making the decisions obviously don't know or haven't read Lee. If they had, there would be no ban. And that's also true of many on the banned list above.

Re: And the List of Domains Ditched by Digg Keeps Growing

paper shredder — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 12:23:23 -0000

And the List of Domains Ditched by Digg Keeps Growing

Re: And the List of Domains Ditched by Digg Keeps Growing

Hillos — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 16:05:56 -0000

It's time to ditch digg. Their website is all about picking up all kind of garbage.

Re: And the List of Domains Ditched by Digg Keeps Growing

Melissa Donovan — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 03:22:48 -0000

I just tried to list my new site, which is also a blog (for writers) in Digg. I had never visited Digg before, but of course I hear about it all the time on blogs and podcasts. I thought it was one of the worse sites ever. They don't have enough topics, and it's not very blog-friendly over there. I see it crashing and burning against Technorati.

Re: And the List of Domains Ditched by Digg Keeps Growing

Ben — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 12:15:04 -0000

we have been banned have not any reason,digg alway banned the small website.

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€

Re: And the List of Domains Ditched by Digg Keeps Growing

Jayda Taylor — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 05:09:27 -0000

This one makes sence "One's first step in wisdom is to kuesstion everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything."

Re: And the List of Domains Ditched by Digg Keeps Growing

shevin — Sun, 13 May 2007 06:41:35 -0000

hey my blog was also banned in digg for no reason ...

god damn them..

Re: And the List of Domains Ditched by Digg Keeps Growing

NEW SITE GETS BANNED WITHIN 6 — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 17:37:44 -0000

Digg.com is getting cocky and banning small web sites just because diggâ€™s users submit them to digg and diggâ€™s moderators donâ€™t like it. Scifidigg.com is the latest victim of Diggâ€™s â€œWe are big, you are small and we can do whatever we wantâ€ attitude.
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 â€“ 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.
Letâ€™s get to the point
WITHIN 6 DAYS THE SITE HAS BEEN BANNED FROM DIGG
Diggâ€™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.
Diggâ€™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 canâ€™t pick on them without repercussion, like they can pick on small blogs that try to establish themselves.
So what have we learned?
Â· Diggâ€™s users donâ€™t really determine what gets promoted, but diggâ€™s moderators do.
Â· Digg have a different set of rules for small site and different rules for big sites, even though both are doing the same.
Â· Digg will ban a small site just because one of its userâ€™s submitted an article that other digg members liked and promoted, but moderator didnâ€™t like the link.
Â· Digg will not listen to reason when told that the site did not violate its TOS.

Re: And the List of Domains Ditched by Digg Keeps Growing

supermom_in_ny — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 15:26:17 -0000

Here's another one: BloggerParty.com.

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".

Re: And the List of Domains Ditched by Digg Keeps Growing

Swollen Pickles — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 00:37:55 -0000

My super dooper blog Swollen Pickles has just received the Digg ban! Down with the fascists!
I'd like someone to tell me what I did to deserve it though!

Re: And the List of Domains Ditched by Digg Keeps Growing

Daniel Michel — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 20:18:11 -0000

I just purchased boycottdigg.com and boycottdigg.org

Don't be afraid to speak out.

Join us in the fight.

Join us in out discussion @ http://www.ny-dev.com/forum...
, send me an e-mail @ webmaster@ny-dev.com or PM me @:
AIM: useri4823
Yahoo: sinjix_media
MSN: infitech@infitechdesign.com

We're looking for experienced web developers interested in helping us develop the site.

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."

Re: And the List of Domains Ditched by Digg Keeps Growing

Aaron Pratt — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 02:24:18 -0000

Don't forget KoolAidGuy: http://blogs.zdnet.com/web2...

LOL, I wonder who he was? =P

Re: And the List of Domains Ditched by Digg Keeps Growing

Real Estate Webmasters — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 03:22:22 -0000

Oh yeah, there is a thread about us being unbanned from Digg here: http://www.realestatewebmas...

Re: And the List of Domains Ditched by Digg Keeps Growing

Real Estate Webmasters — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 03:19:44 -0000

I am the owner of real estate webmasters and after doing some "Digging" heh, and writing some emails back and forth with Digg, I have managed to get my URL unbanned from DIGG

Re: And the List of Domains Ditched by Digg Keeps Growing

Kevin May — Thu, 28 Dec 2006 02:48:42 -0000

We are a UK-based media brand focussing on the online travel industry, banned from Digg.

a post highlighting our own plight:

http://travolution.blogspot...

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.

Re: And the List of Domains Ditched by Digg Keeps Growing

Giovanni Gallucci — Wed, 27 Dec 2006 14:30:03 -0000

So the question now is...is it possible to bury the digg.com domain from digg.com? It would be an interesting test to see if that would be possible using the same standards that they have applied to Lee's blog and others. Who's with me?

Re: And the List of Domains Ditched by Digg Keeps Growing

Search Engines — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 22:30:29 -0000

It probably is not a good idea to ban - perhaps certain domain-submission could first be given a manual review - then if spam continues -they could Ban AND warn the owner or submitter :-|

But of course, if a story is a real gem -someone could use a redirt url

Re: And the List of Domains Ditched by Digg Keeps Growing

Paula Neal Mooney — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 19:29:27 -0000

Thanks for this post, dude. Getting banned from Digg was almost the best thing to happen to me!

Re: And the List of Domains Ditched by Digg Keeps Growing

Tod — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 18:25:12 -0000

I got this from GraywolfÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s SEO Blog
http://www.wolf-howl.com/gr...
It's a rather interesting case study

Re: And the List of Domains Ditched by Digg Keeps Growing

Ste Andreassen — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 17:25:28 -0000

I think it is hilarious and ironic that Ecademy has been banned. As a site run by people who believe in the "Law of Attraction", they can be safe in the knowledge that they brought it on themselves.

As they regularly ban members of Ecademy (17 recently - http://www.theregister.co.u... for disagreeing with the management, they deserve it. Now if only Google would see them for what they are.

Re: And the List of Domains Ditched by Digg Keeps Growing

Shawn Hogan — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 17:17:55 -0000

Personally, I think the ban of my domain (digitalpoint.com) is a good thing. Keeps people from posting idiotic threads just so they can submit it to Digg. I never asked to get it unbanned, and in truth if Digg did unban it on it's own, I would ask them to reban it.

Re: And the List of Domains Ditched by Digg Keeps Growing

Kraig Grayson — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 16:39:33 -0000

It seems Digg does not remember where it is coming from. As many before me stated, it is the common people like us who make Digg what it is today. They even blocked my blog, and it contains nothing against their TOS. I submitted a few of my posts as stories, and I mean they are really helpful. A couple had affiliate links which cannot be totally avoided, but the majority would hel

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.

Re: And the List of Domains Ditched by Digg Keeps Growing

Jade Robbins — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 16:10:37 -0000

The truth is that the minority must accept the majority's rule. I love digg, but if the majority keeps being douchebags then maybe it's time to move on.

Re: And the List of Domains Ditched by Digg Keeps Growing

Jordan — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 12:51:52 -0000

They also block Freewebs and most tinyurl-like websites.

Re: And the List of Domains Ditched by Digg Keeps Growing

David Temple — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 10:46:26 -0000

Talk about biting the hand that feeds you. Digg wouldn't be so popular if it hadn't been for the seo community' which by the way, does not equate to spam. Digg wouldn't know spam if it bit 'em in the butt. A perfect example is Lee Odden's blog. Those making the decisions obviously don't know or haven't read Lee. If they had, there would be no ban. And that's also true of many on the banned list above.