Digg Community Guidelines

Last updated: November 9, 2026

Digg is a place to discover what’s happening, share what you know, and discuss what matters. Good conversations can be funny, heated, skeptical, or uncomfortable. You don’t have to agree with someone to participate alongside them.

These guidelines set out the conduct we moderate so people can take part. They apply to comments, replies, and content you share on Digg.

Disagree freely. Give people room to participate.

Challenge an argument. Criticize a company, government, religion, public figure, or Digg itself. Ask difficult questions and point out mistakes.

Strong opinions, sarcasm, and profanity are allowed. Being unpopular or offensive is not, by itself, a violation. An isolated rude remark doesn’t automatically amount to harassment. Repeated criticism does not become harassment simply because its subject wants it to stop.

Don’t threaten violence or encourage serious harm.

Don’t threaten physical violence, call for someone to be attacked, encourage another person’s suicide or self-harm, or recruit people for terrorist violence.

Calls to vote someone out, boycott a business, seek someone’s resignation, or organize peaceful protest are allowed. Threatening those consequences is different from threatening physical harm.

Reporting a threat, discussing violence in the news, or using a familiar expression like “our team got murdered last night” is different from threatening someone. Talking about your own distress or asking for help does not violate these rules.

Don’t harass or intimidate.

Don’t organize abusive or threatening messages against someone, stalk them, repeatedly direct personal abuse at them, or use private details to frighten them into silence. Harassment includes repeated degrading personal messages and targeted wishes that someone suffer serious injury, sexual violence, or death.

Don’t use private location details to threaten physical harm, enable stalking, or direct people to confront someone at their home. Peaceful protest at a public office or business is allowed. Mentioning a workplace, asking pointed questions, or receiving criticism from many people does not, by itself, establish harassment.

Public figures are open to scrutiny, criticism, satire, and peaceful protest. Our rules against threats of violence, intimidation, and targeted harassment apply to everyone. Persistent criticism or calls for accountability do not, by themselves, constitute harassment.

Don’t attack people because of who they are.

Don’t use slurs to attack people, describe identity groups as less than human or inherently inferior, encourage their persecution, or use identity-based abuse to drive someone out of a conversation. These rules cover characteristics such as race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, caste, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, and disability.

Criticizing a belief, institution, or policy is allowed. Debating immigration, religion, sex, or gender is not automatically an attack on people. We assess the actual language and conduct against these rules rather than treating a position on a disputed policy as proof of abuse.

Quoting abusive language to report or condemn it is different from using it to attack someone. We consider that context.

Protect people’s privacy and consent.

Don’t share or threaten to expose sensitive personal details to intimidate someone or help others target them. This includes home addresses and private contact details. Finding that information elsewhere does not make it acceptable to repost it to encourage abuse or confrontation.

Reporting on someone’s public work is allowed. Public institutional contact information can be shared for peaceful civic participation, such as calling an elected official’s office.

Don’t share, request, threaten to distribute, or help others obtain someone’s intimate images without their consent. Don’t use threats, blackmail, or abuse of authority to obtain sexual activity or intimate images, or use sexual threats to intimidate someone. Discussion of sexuality and non-graphic accounts of abuse are allowed.

Never sexually exploit children.

Sexual solicitation of minors, child sexual abuse material, and requests for that material are prohibited. So is grooming: building or using a relationship with a minor for sexual exploitation. An ordinary conversation or an ambiguous phrase alone does not establish grooming.

Discussion intended to prevent abuse, report it, or support survivors is allowed. Don’t repost exploitative material to draw attention to it.

Don’t flood conversations with spam.

Relevant links and contributions—including something you made—are welcome.

Don’t send unsolicited bulk promotions, repeatedly post promotions across unrelated discussions, or flood a conversation with duplicate messages that crowd out participation. A single link or an off-topic remark doesn’t automatically make a comment spam. We assess the messages and any documented pattern, rather than assuming someone’s motive.

Context matters. So does what a comment actually does.

We consider the conversation around a comment, including quotation, satire, regional language, and documented patterns of behavior. A report or an accusation alone does not establish a violation.

Changing a slur’s spelling or adding “just joking” doesn’t excuse clear abuse. Equally, a word or phrase alone isn’t enough to establish a violation. When important context is missing, a comment may need further review; that uncertainty is not a finding of wrongdoing.

A factual disagreement or unsupported claim, by itself, is not a violation of these guidelines. Claims can still violate the rules when they include threats of violence, harassment, exploitation, or other prohibited conduct. When challenging a claim, explain what’s wrong and share reliable sources.

How moderation works

Moderation may involve automated checks and Admin review. Automated checks may hold a comment for review, or remove one that clearly breaks a rule, without prior human review. Some comments may be held while context is reviewed. A hold is not a finding that someone broke the rules. A report that a comment is false or misleading does not, by itself, lead to automatic action.

Responses depend on the conduct, its severity, context, and any documented repeat violations. They may include content removal, temporary posting restrictions, or account suspension. Being reported repeatedly does not, by itself, justify a penalty.

When we hold or remove a comment, its author sees why on the comment and in their notifications on Digg, including the rule where one applies. We protect private information and the people who report abuse.

If you believe a moderation decision is wrong, you can ask us to reconsider by emailing legal@digg.com. Include the comment or page link, the decision you are questioning, and relevant context. Don’t send intimate images or child sexual abuse material. This is a review request, not a promise of a particular outcome or response time.

Help keep conversations open

Report content you believe breaks these guidelines. Don’t encourage a pile-on or repost private or exploitative material as proof.

You can disagree strongly and still leave room for other people to speak.