Digg is banning users because they digg too often

[tomhoncuada1108]

This is just bull crap, can you guy reddit it?



http://www.seopedia.org/seo-news/dig...igg-too-often/

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1. 25 posts - 16 authors - Last post: May 4, 2007What followed was a growing attempt by Digg users to repost the code while Digg administrators struggled to remove it and ban users who did so
2. Digg users seem to be focused on young males 18-31
3. The traffic sent by Digg will be less spikey, which will help very small publishers, who often have their sites crash from front pages anyway, but
4. Perhaps you could demonstrate the security implications of this by correlating a couple of digg user-names to the IP addresses of their users
5. Indeed, today still, a story submitted by a top user will instantly garner a significant number of diggs from followers, often regardless of the story's quality
6. A lot of people right before the ban were submitting old stuff that had already been on digg before so maybe that did tick them off
7. While it's up to Digg what sites it wants to

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[lytieudao29]

if the guy is clicking digg one after the other without reading the story he's changing the levels un-naturally there is nothing wrong with warning him about it.



Why vote for a story if you don't even know what it's about?

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1. Do you think it's wise of Digg to ban major players like Zaibatsu and Supernova17, or do you think Digg is better off in the long run taking a more hands-off approach
2. It's the internet and I am typing on Digg
3. This prevents Digg from making accounts on our site to see which stories are paid for, and then banning the users who vote for them
4. The French are often banning English words but mostly ina forelorn hope than with effect - though my French Toshiba has switched to courriel for e-mail, and that's Microsoft for you
5. Besides, Reddit and Digg users who do visit sites that are linked usually don't pay the bills
6. It's been known to VERY few users that digg often bans any user that shows public dissent
7. Digg does get indexed very regularly by the big search engines and popular or unique Digg posts are often seen ranking high in SERPs
8. Digg up front tells you they will go in by hand & remove stories 'they' dont like
9. My belief is that Digg won't ban you from using scripts that are not manipulative in nature (e
10. Everybody's looking to game digg, nowadays, and I guess precautions have to be made by the staff there; so I can understand the banning and

[longbeodbp]

Thanks for the headsup. Gotta stop digging my stuff so much.

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1. And he mentions specifically that Greg Davies left Digg for
2. The sites that self-submit that kind of material always seem to win praise from the average Reddit or Digg user
3. What you want are tools that will enhance your proficiency for using Digg
4. Yea I started to notice these trends myself that is until they decided to ban my website from digg
5. While we welcome users to submit their own content, overdoing it often incites the users to mark the user as a spammer, the
6. In any case, the Digg community seems to be very immature and superficial, very often commenting and Digging stories after only reading the titles
7. It is bad that Digg have blocked the URL for a false reason
8. @Smurfz, not sure what you would get out of banning the #1 Digg user

[giohoangmac7000]

I am too mind here...



After all some of us are actually spamming Digg and this could be our counteraction if we were the owners

Thanks for the thumbs up anyways..



I guess we need to be careful

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1. Among the top users of Digg, there are quite a few Indians
2. If a sites gets reported enough, Digg bans the URL
3. I find that twitter replaces digg for me now a days because if a story is re-tweeted often enough it means i should have a look at it
4. One last point I want to make here is that since the Digg ban hammer has now kicked over 2000 users off Digg, Zaibatsu being one of them, you
5. So what's it going to be digg? Stay a community driven site? Or protect against digg fraud at the expense of the users you so regularly thank for

[pathanhht]

i hope other bookmark networks don't follow the same after digg. i myself haven't used digg yet though

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1. Would it like more *ordinary* folks to enter and Digg stories? Like me and my friends? Perhaps
2. The second one is to allow users of the toolbar to interact with the Digg stories in a different way
3. I think if too many users complain that a site is spam, Digg bans the domain
4. Digg bans are known to happen even when the accusations of Digg impropriety are groundless, as was the case with TopRank's Online Marketing Blog
5. Anyone who tries to digg this story is told, “This URL has been widely reported by users as being regularly
6. Digg, another social link-sharing site, produces loyal visitors 16% of the time, and Twitter users are likely to come back around 11% of the
7. Digg is banning users because they digg too often · seopedia
8. Another 'black market' Pay Per Digg operation has opened up which claims that its users will not get banned from Digg
9. So why does Digg ban diggers who engage some types unpopular speech