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- sockpuppets, on 11/05/2007, -18/+1009Dugg for later.
- addiggt, on 07/06/2009, -25/+882How many people do you think read the title of this story and said : "the title pretty much tells me everything" and didn't even bother reading the actual article? Hmm.... irony is fun.
- kevinrose, on 11/05/2007, -23/+690This is extremely rare. We have automated systems that flag abnormal digging behavior (eg. hundreds of diggs in an hour). If the user is banned due to an alarm being set off - in all cases, they are given an opportunity to be re-instated. We strive to keep digg as bot free as possible.
- hbweb500, on 11/05/2007, -17/+316First off, some people use Digg to bookmark sites to read later. Perhaps Digg needs a bookmarking function.
Also, Banning is a little rough, no? Maybe a suspension would be better. - shadus, on 10/11/2007, -11/+233I greatly disagree with forcing people to read stories before digging/burying them... for instance I regularly bury stories on the upcoming stories page that are exceptionally lame or spam... for instance, i see one right now:
http://digg.com/tech_deals/Verizon_Motorola_RAZR_V3m_Silver_FREE leading to the site... http://www.cellphonesmarket.com/viewtopic.php?t=16 with a description of "Find your Motorola RAZR V3m Silver for FREE with 2 years agreement here." I don't need to read that story to know it's spam.
I also have on several occasions clicked on a story and been directed to something that I've already seen on stumbleupon or slashdot and I almost immediately click digg if enjoyed it.
Using some kind of algorithm to determine this is *bad*. I've been using digg a long time and I really hope digg doesn't become "What the community wants, but only if you do it exactly the way we want." - IvanB, on 11/05/2007, -78/+298Quite indeed. People that blind digg clearly do not understand the concept that Digg is.
- cogitocogito, on 10/11/2007, -6/+224I hope this doesn't apply to burying dupes. When news breaks, there are often a dozen or so extremely similar if not identical submissions. Quick burying of dupes helps the story get to the front page more quickly (if it's worthy)
- lazyrussian, on 10/11/2007, -21/+237Digg is my del.icio.us. I bookmark for later a lot. I sometimes read the stories 5 days later...
Stupid policy. - kevinrose, on 10/11/2007, -18/+231@supernovasky:
Just email us. - LogicBomB, on 10/11/2007, -22/+233I'm supposed to digg the stories? I just come here to digg people down... :P
- alanflores, on 10/11/2007, -13/+221@ivan
most diggers warn you about spam content early on, if i see like 3++ comments warning that the content is spam, i bury it right away. especially if they are from responsible and credible users, or digg friends.
so i have to suffer from spam before i can bury it? i guess, thats where credible users / friends can get handy. and burying spam is responsible digging - MarkCiccone, on 10/11/2007, -4/+155I'm a news junkie, and sometimes I've all ready read a story by the time it gets on Digg, but it's hosted on a different page. I'll blindly digg that story. But it doesn't amount to a huge number of blind diggs... you have to be really lazy to get banned for it.
- addiggt, on 07/06/2009, -27/+154@ kevinrose
This is basically just to thank you and to let you know that I (and many others I'm sure) appreciate you being so present in the Digg community. Unlike so many websites, Digg's staff really seems to care about its users and they take the time to personally answer questions instead of just ignoring the users. So again, just a little thank you from a digger. That is all. - cr4ft, on 10/11/2007, -7/+80Since when has digg become a dictatorship?
If I see a title, such as, "Click Here 4 a Funnee Goatse.ex picture" I will immediately bury it as lame. Do I really have to see a man stretching his anus with his hands just so I can confirm my bury? - championchap, on 10/11/2007, -4/+62Methinks you might all be over reacting.
Sure we all blind digg and bury once in a while, dupes, spam and stuff we've seen before.
But we digg some stories after checking them out right?
I'm guessing its just the accounts that are pretty blatently digging away and burying stories without looking at more than like 40% of them are getting banned.
Seems like bot activity to me. - TheKingOfHell, on 11/05/2007, -3/+59I accuse myself; sometimes I find the discussion so engaging I comment first and read second.
- supernovasky, on 10/11/2007, -9/+62KevinRose, what is the process for trying to get an account reinstated?
- MikeOSX, on 10/11/2007, -4/+55Well, I go to read this story, and I get a wordpress error. Now you know why we don't always read the stories.
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -10/+59"Quite indeed. People that blind digg clearly do not understand the concept that Digg is."
To which I reply:
"Hey, that looks like an interesting title. I'll digg it and come back later to read it when I have more time. Because if I don't digg it now, it will disappear off the front page and I might forget to look it up." - chrisxkelley, on 10/11/2007, -3/+43translation: the webserver said no.
:) - fluxion, on 10/11/2007, -1/+41i'm gonna be honest here, i dugg "IRONY: Anti-Cellphone Senator Crashes while talking on CELLPHONE" before even reading the story.
- Alphabet, on 10/11/2007, -14/+49The original story is from a site called SeoPedia. I'm going to bury this story as spam too. These people should shut up and go away and stop gaming digg.
- venom8599, on 10/11/2007, -2/+36Three seconds of boobs?! WHERE?!
- captinherb, on 10/11/2007, -5/+37@kevinrose:
You mean like this?
http://img75.imageshack.us/img75/302/spambot2zf6.png - StillGaming, on 10/11/2007, -10/+36Digg needs to man up and ban the Ron Paul spammers immediately. Hell, one of their ringleaders, Xuvious, calls you a "race-baiting freedom hater" if you throw down all the links that show that they are mass blind-digging and also digging down users into oblivion that link to their plans. He gets immediate +diggs for it as well from his buddies. I've thumbed through the Ron Paul articles posted today and I ran out of fingers and toes on the number of times he threw down the race/freedom/terrorists win card. This really should've been dealt with by this morning.
- captinherb, on 10/11/2007, -3/+28The final size of the bot right before he got banned:
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/204/511547104_82dc19c3b1_o.jpg - NikoKun, on 10/11/2007, -16/+35This sounds like some kind of bs to me... I digg lots of stories quickly because I think the topics or idea should be know... wheather I agree with the content or not, digging something up to show that content is important. After I have dugg something, I open both the comments in one tab, and the article in another, and skim through both.
I seriously don't think it's right of digg.com to ban people for fast digs or burries... that doesn't make any sence, and they really don't know what the user was doing or thinking... =/
I thought this was all about community freely posting articles... but if Digg REALLY wants to limit people in such a silly way.. why not just put a limit on the number of diggs and buries one an use in one day?
Shame on them, if they are really doing this... - Nerys, on 10/11/2007, -3/+22Finding stuff on digg is impossible. there search is broken always was still is NEVER works. Even if I type EXACT words from a title many times it will NOT come up. BUT if I digg it its almost always still there in my Profile History.
If I get banned Oh well I guess digg just does not want me around I will get over it but I will NOT change my usage methods. Not negotiable. If something "looks" interesting I WILL digg it until they give me an alternative. (how about a "remember" this that puts it in my profile list and will NOT dissappear) that does not actually apply a digg ? ie a small button NEXT to the digg button. if it requires me to goto any menu or secondary page its worthless and I will just keep clicking digg. I need a little icon RIGHT there with the digg icon on the main screen that does EVERYTHING clicking digg does except actually digging it. THAT would satisfy me. - MattS, on 10/11/2007, -15/+34Kevin Rose writes a comment that says "...Just email us..." and we digg up this little gem (so far) to 49 diggs... Aren't we all just a little over the top on the fanboy stuff here?
- Sephrra, on 10/11/2007, -4/+22My freedoms are being "stolen" from me on a privately owned website?? GEORGE BUSH MUST BE BEHIND THIS!
- gone2slashdot, on 10/11/2007, -3/+19You will get a ban without any warning - all of your comments and submitted stories - *blink*
- scarebear, on 10/26/2007, -12/+27^^^ speaking the truth
- lukas88, on 10/11/2007, -6/+19This is probably for all the goons going through the list and digging every Ron Paul story they see. Meh, I like him as a candidate, but I am tired of seeing him on digg.
- wastern, on 10/11/2007, -3/+15I think there needs to be some sort of bookmarklet that lets you digg from the page you are directed to
I actually end up digging less stories when I click through to read. I have to *really* like something if I'm going to go back, or find the tab of the digg article and then digg it
If I could click through to the story, then just click a button in my bookmarks bar for a '+1 digg' I think I would digg a lot more things. I think I actually comment more then I digg things which seems backward
I think there would be a lot less mindless digging that way. Digg it after reading, rather then digging it, then going to see if you like it. - davidrools, on 10/11/2007, -2/+13It's clear from the comments that all of us who _occasionally_ do a quick digg/bury or a digg-n-run bookmark don't and probably won't have a problem with this banning. It's those people who, for example, digg/bury straight down a row of search results are the ones who will be and should be banned. That kind of behavior is obviously counterproductive and I'm glad steps are being taken to prevent it.
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -0/+10So I got banned this weekend from Digg for digging too many stories.
I've been on Digg since maybe the 1st month the site was created. I got banned last month too, the sad part is tonight, I tried to comment well at least and read every single story that I've Dugg. I need to prove to Digg that I can read, comment and move on pretty damn quickly.
Well guess what frickin' happened, it said "I was commenting on too many stories to quickly".
I'll be the first to admit that I don't read alot of the stories that I Digg. If I like the title, the content and if I'm familiar with the subject matter, well a headline is all I need. If not it sits in the background of one of my 30 open tabs for later reading.
Now if you look at my Digg history, I've Dugg North of 50,000 articles. Do I blind digg stories... uh no. Do I just Digg maybe the 900ish people that have befriended me... uh no.
Right now in my Mutual Friends upcoming I have well over 1000 articles. Now if dugg each and everyone on of those I would be banned for sure. Then if I move to the frontpage and Dugg cool stuff that I saw up there, well it's even more. After that I like to sit down with a crisp Shiraz and troll through the upcomings.
So maybe I had a little too much to drink while I was (DrunkDigging) Digg stories that I liked. Maybe it's the OC-192 and MacPro 8 Core with my fictional 30 inch LCD that made me do it.
All I'm saying is I'm a Digg fanboy, I don't Digg crap (I might submit it from time to time) but I try and be true to the site. I know that Digg is trying to keep the site fresh, fair and ground breaking. But, sometimes I just want to kick that little algorithms a$$.
So maybe I had a little too much to drink, - Angellsid, on 10/11/2007, -2/+12I am still unable to read this story. I guess I will just digg it....
- darkhero, on 10/11/2007, -5/+15***** that, I submitted a video the other day showing Kevin Rose saying that Microsoft was a good company with good software and my ***** was deleted. WTF digg! Now i can't find that video again. What the ***** is digging turning into?
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -3/+13STFU
- JasonCox, on 10/11/2007, -1/+11I'll just sit back and wait for Kevin to blog a response.
- Benrussell, on 11/05/2007, -41/+50Ron Paul's army of paid spammers is in for trouble.
- StillGaming, on 10/26/2007, -7/+16The people flagging the spam as spam is also in trouble, it would appear. This is flawed.
- eddieo, on 10/11/2007, -2/+11I think this would be a good time for a bookmark button. Many times I will digg a story before I read it so that it is in my dugg section. It is easier to find the story that way. Of course after I read it and possibly decide it is not worth my digg, well, will undigging it at this point mean anything?
- finista, on 10/11/2007, -0/+8YOU CAN READ STORIES ON DIGG??
- kosmoX, on 10/11/2007, -9/+17What is this story about? Sorry I haven't read it yet...
- CurtHowland, on 10/11/2007, -5/+13"GIVE THOSE DIGG GUYS WHAT THEY DESERVE"
It's their site, they can do what they wish to do. If you don't like it, take your business elsewhere. - Jakerius, on 10/11/2007, -1/+9Account Suspended
The account owner has been informed regarding this - in case of questions kindly open a support ticket via the control panel.
Ironic. - inactive, on 10/11/2007, -4/+12Here it is:
"Digg can be a strange entity at times. In the latest bit of drama, the powers that be seem to be cracking down on something most Digg users are guilty of: Blind Digging/burying.
The following text is from an email received by a banned Digg user, as reported by SeoPedia.
Your account was banned for the rate of Digging activity you’ve engaged in. We’ve determined that the time in which your Diggs happen, it isn’t possible to actually read the stories. Please read each and every story before you Digg or bury a story. Once you agree that you will Digg/bury more responsibly and read the stories, we will unban your account.
It would appear that there is some sort of automated algorithm which measures the interval between landing on a page and Digging a story. If it determines insufficient time has passed to have read the article it throws up a flag, and the user may be banned.
The reality is most stories are Dugg without the story ever having been read so they must only be cracking down on users who engage in this on a large and frequent scale.
The idea of having users actually read an article before Digging, or more importantly before hitting the bury button, is something I completely support.
However instead of simply banning people why can’t they implement a mechanism which warns people as they are doing it? If you’ve ever tried to add multiple friends on Digg in a short period of time you would have no doubt encountered the message telling you that you are adding friends too quickly.
A messaging system similar to this which encourages users to read articles before Digging/burying seems like a much more productive alternative than banning them altogether.
Don’t hold your breathe though. Implementing meaningful changes doesn’t seem to be on their to-do list, and after the whole HD-DVD encryption saga Digg management is no doubt more fearful than ever of challenging the status quo." - kingkilr, on 10/11/2007, -1/+8What about pic articles? They are quick to look at.
- MourningZoo, on 10/11/2007, -1/+8IvanB i disagree with your first comment. I love Digg, for every aspect of it. I use firefox and take advantage of the tabs feature. Sometimes I read the description and love it and open it in a new window to read while I scan the rest of the top pages. I think this is horrible of Digg to do.
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