Digg Just Banned Me

By Vlad Zablotskyy May 21, 2007 Bookmark and Share

Oh well, I guess I have been asking for it from the very beginning. So I was not that surprised to see the message today when trying to login and add few new digg friends. From what I can gather I have broken either 7th or 8th stipulations of Digg user conduct.

Just about one week ago, I decided to never submit any story from any of my websites to Digg and even have taken down the Digg plugin. But I did became more active in last few days, adding friends (only those who have befriended me first) and digging my friends stories. I have to admit that with 25 friends in the list some times I would spend more than few minutes to digg them all. Anyway, I am banned so I will not be able to “return” a favor a digg your story- which technically would be violation of stipulation #8.

I do not really care why they have banned me since for while I have felt it was a waste of time for me personally, of course this does not apply if my diggs send some of my friends an extra visitor.

Buh bye Digg!

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  • If you think you have been really naughty fair enough, though I know at least one top Digger and knowledgeable member of Bumpzee who was recently banned, and whose account is active again.

    I would try to get reinstated if you can
  • I am not quite sure if I want to, unless of course my diggs will help others. As I said in the past, the only reason I joined digg was that it helped search engines to discover (new) content on my websites. BumpZee helps me in that respect. Actually I think I am getting more juice from BumpZee than I was from Digg.

    About being naughty. On the average, day having 25 friends, I use to digg about 100 stories. Is that naughty enough to get banned?
  • 7th and 8th seems to be about banned sites, people Digging straight affiliate links, and automated Digging and bot.

    From what I can see that isn't what you were digging, so I would drop them a message.

    When I go to Digg I pop to see what my friends have submitted, and Digg the ones I find interesting, and then pop to what my friends have Diggs, and again, just Digg stuff I find interesting.

    That isn't huge Digg volume compared, but there are people who Digg a lot more than 100 stories per day.

    I would write them a note, state you are not aware of Digging any banned sites or sites through a redirect, you don't use any form of automation, and just Digg stories you like.
    Say you are a fairly new user just learning the ropes, and can't understand why your account has been disabled.

    Digging stuff really shouldn't take up a huge amount of additional time.
  • Thanks Andy,

    I will write them and e-mail tonight. The only reason I would stay is to help my friends out. Let see what happens.
  • Can you feel the love tonight...?

    Wow - no love lost here, eh Vlad *grins*
  • Owh, you're not the only one.. lol.. There's always Netscape huh?
  • @Mark from Bloglyne
    Thanks for making me laugh!

    @Chee
    I am not familiar with Netscape, but I think from know one I will stick to my favorite- BumpZee.
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