gabriels -That is EXACTLY the kind of abuse that happens with the Digg system. You don't like the content because it isn't your interest so you mark it as spam. Guess what? There's many Digg readers who actually enjoy reading about SEO stuff. I happen to be one of them. I'm an Interactive Strategist (not an SEO person) and this stuff is very relevant to my industry. The fact that they get many diggs and make the front page is testimonial to the fact that many Digg users also enjoy it.Who gives a flying f**k if they have ads on the site? Do you realize that 99.9% of the "mainstream" sites that people love to see pop up on Digg are also ad supported? Lets take Gizmodo, BoingBoing, Consumerist, or any of the Federated Media blogs...guess what, they're ALL ad-supported!!! Get off your f**king high horse and stop being such a damn hypocrite. I wish there was a way to ban Digg users who abused the Bury function to bury stories they don't like or stories from people who post the content on blogs. Free blog hosting makes it possible for a lot of unique content to be put online for free, and shouldn't be buried just because it might be on a generic Blogger template or have a couple AdSense units. Jesus, AdSense doesn't even make people money from Diggers.
Lumenlab.com also appears to have been un-banned. They have a DIY LCD projector forum and store, as well as a cheap commercial projector. The night the commercial projector was released, I tried to submit it and found out that they were banned.I like the idea for a list of banned sites being made available along with the reasons for the banning. Site owners should be allowed to make a request to be unbanned and legitimate bans should help shame the sites into cleaning up their act.
Why not explain why many digg users claim legitimate and original blog material as "blog spam?" Is it simply because they have ads as well? That makes zero sense.
I think it's a smart move on their behalf. The banned domain list on digg has become so big that a lot of important sites were not covered by digg. Moreso a lot of bloggers would not submit their own sites (or friends' sites) in fear that they will get banned as well. The result is that a) Many site owners turned to the competition (netscape, plime, stumbleupon) b) Digg was becoming an irrelevant news source. The question to ask is whether the banning rules remain the same. If so, digg's huge "bury brigade" will soon get all these sites re-banned.
Hi dreadswordI know that alot of people emailed Digg after the mass user ban last year. I'm sure many were written in anger but others were reasonable requests for information. I don't believe any heard back. It's all water under the bridge now so don't go trawling back through the archives - however when people get banned it might help give them a ban code and then when they try to login say "Your account has been blocked. Reason: " and have give a verbose description of the ban code.
lolipopfailureFeb 23, 2007
what about prison planet :-(
vanitykillzFeb 23, 2007
Agreed . They should handle banned domains like alto of spam blacklists handle them.
haltingpointFeb 23, 2007
gabriels -That is EXACTLY the kind of abuse that happens with the Digg system. You don't like the content because it isn't your interest so you mark it as spam. Guess what? There's many Digg readers who actually enjoy reading about SEO stuff. I happen to be one of them. I'm an Interactive Strategist (not an SEO person) and this stuff is very relevant to my industry. The fact that they get many diggs and make the front page is testimonial to the fact that many Digg users also enjoy it.Who gives a flying f**k if they have ads on the site? Do you realize that 99.9% of the "mainstream" sites that people love to see pop up on Digg are also ad supported? Lets take Gizmodo, BoingBoing, Consumerist, or any of the Federated Media blogs...guess what, they're ALL ad-supported!!! Get off your f**king high horse and stop being such a damn hypocrite. I wish there was a way to ban Digg users who abused the Bury function to bury stories they don't like or stories from people who post the content on blogs. Free blog hosting makes it possible for a lot of unique content to be put online for free, and shouldn't be buried just because it might be on a generic Blogger template or have a couple AdSense units. Jesus, AdSense doesn't even make people money from Diggers.
mr_scientistFeb 23, 2007
Lovely. And the news is brought to you by ProNetAdvertising. WTF is going on here? Is Digg officially a search engine optimizer hideout?
matthewtheravenFeb 23, 2007
Lumenlab.com also appears to have been un-banned. They have a DIY LCD projector forum and store, as well as a cheap commercial projector. The night the commercial projector was released, I tried to submit it and found out that they were banned.I like the idea for a list of banned sites being made available along with the reasons for the banning. Site owners should be allowed to make a request to be unbanned and legitimate bans should help shame the sites into cleaning up their act.
ronaldlewisFeb 24, 2007
Why not explain why many digg users claim legitimate and original blog material as "blog spam?" Is it simply because they have ads as well? That makes zero sense.
ronaldlewisFeb 24, 2007
How about everyone just stop worrying about which sites should or shouldn't be banned, and enjoy digg for what it is.
digitalpointFeb 24, 2007
Hmmmm... anyway to get digitalpoint.com rebanned?
Closed AccountFeb 24, 2007
I think it's a smart move on their behalf. The banned domain list on digg has become so big that a lot of important sites were not covered by digg. Moreso a lot of bloggers would not submit their own sites (or friends' sites) in fear that they will get banned as well. The result is that a) Many site owners turned to the competition (netscape, plime, stumbleupon) b) Digg was becoming an irrelevant news source. The question to ask is whether the banning rules remain the same. If so, digg's huge "bury brigade" will soon get all these sites re-banned.
dreadswordFeb 24, 2007
Bingo - we have a winner! Its now indexing again.Thank-you for all of your help!Here it is, btw... <a class="user" href="http://slantt.net/source/digg_all">http://slantt.net/source/digg_all</a>
itamerFeb 25, 2007
Hi dreadswordI know that alot of people emailed Digg after the mass user ban last year. I'm sure many were written in anger but others were reasonable requests for information. I don't believe any heard back. It's all water under the bridge now so don't go trawling back through the archives - however when people get banned it might help give them a ban code and then when they try to login say "Your account has been blocked. Reason: " and have give a verbose description of the ban code.
unitedstatiansJun 8, 2007
@pmcall221<a class="user" href="http://digg.bokefu.com/">http://digg.bokefu.com/</a>