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Re: The Grim Reaper has visited Digg

newsmarked — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 02:42:35 -0000

Man... ! Reaper scare the hell out of me !!!

Re: The Grim Reaper has visited Digg

Ty — Mon, 18 May 2009 09:56:20 -0000

I don't use digg as much as I used to anymore, but I never ran into any sever spammers of digg like I have on other sites, so i'm surprised by these bannings. But it is a free service so digg can do what they want.

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Re: The Grim Reaper has visited Digg

Patrick Smith @ The Magic Of M — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 20:50:04 -0000

Thats crazy, did they even send a warning or an email first.

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Vickario@Adjustable Beds — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 18:02:37 -0000

Maybe I'm missing something, but why were all these people banned around the same time?

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mmft — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 05:08:57 -0000

hi
i am anti war
digg ban my account from digg
they are war machine
This is Freedom?
This is Democracy?
My User From 2005-2009 : MMFT
im sorry for humanity

Re: The Grim Reaper has visited Digg

SeaMowse — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 23:21:54 -0000

@Dave - good question. He hasn't been on Digg since the end of March so there's no reason to ban him.

Is it possible he asked his account to be deleted? I mean, he said he was very ill and would be gone for a while.

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Dave@dressup games — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 13:00:05 -0000

what was the reason for the banning?

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SeaMowse — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 21:34:22 -0000

Wow... they banned Member148! This guy hasn't been on Digg since the end of March and shouted to all his friends that he would be absent for a long time - for medical reasons. That he was ill and would be out a while. :-(

Re: The Grim Reaper has visited Digg

knud — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 12:47:26 -0000

I am working on a site which try to solve many of the problems with digg.com.
You can find it on http://crowdnews.eu.

The main problem with digg is the voting system.
When only top voted stories get on the front page it has
to be a subject that many can relate to,
which result in stories with a low information content.

Crowdnews solves this by using sharing instead of voting.
Every have a personal news page on which they can subscribe to other users and when those users share stories they will appear on the personal news page.

Join me on CrowdNews

Re: The Grim Reaper has visited Digg

Simba — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 08:30:36 -0000

I got the boot too, but only after they introduced the anti-spam thingy that checks te times of ya diggs. Hmpffff.

Rest in peace, Anti-Socials

Re: The Grim Reaper has visited Digg

Stephie — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 11:45:35 -0000

Wow....How'd you know? Does digg put our names up on a wall of shame somewhere?

(digg...grrrrrrrr! get us addicted then whammo, cut off! *%$&_%$)

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Alfred — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 23:07:47 -0000

You can add Archeologist to the list of banned diggers.

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Jordan Kasteler — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 18:15:16 -0000

add jordankasteler

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SAR2012 — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 11:49:33 -0000

You can add IconoclastStill, for advocating the execution of palestinian terrorists, and petsheep (allegedly for scripting) to the list.

Re: The Grim Reaper has visited Digg

Jesse — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 23:07:01 -0000

Wow. What a mistake. You guys are all more than welcome to start a new social news site. Build one up from the ground... might I suggest SoLinkable? ;-)

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Roger99 — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 19:54:40 -0000

You can add M!hai (FameMoney) to the list.

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Bob — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 18:43:12 -0000

What a great way for Digg to bury itself as folks go looking elsewhere...

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Jorgandus P. Morganfeld — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 23:54:15 -0000

One more point:

The individual referring to the Uniform Commercial Code in the context of digg and TOS is a clown. UCC does not in any way apply to the lega frameworks involved in the use of digg. I'm going to guess ... 2L?

Re: The Grim Reaper has visited Digg

Jorgandus P. Morganfeld — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 23:50:58 -0000

Maybe this will help things. I use digg less and less. The politicization of the front page has gotten absolutely ridiculous. There was a period of time where I could reliably come to digg to see:

a. the top stories of the day (business, geopolitics, finance, occasional politics)
b. a smattering of extremely interesting and perhaps otherwise hard to find 'interest' pieces
c. a good deal of news with appeal to the core demo (teen and 20-somethings) e.g. pc games, technology news, maybe some movie news etc.

Now, every fu*&$(% thing is a left-wing circle jerk about Obama or against McCain/Palin. Hey, if that's the true user demo of digg, then more power to them, but it's driving a lot of people away. I suspect that it's not; I suspect that the rampant politicization of the site is due to a relatively small cadre of manipulators and digg networkers. Maybe these cleaning operations will help things out.

It's an ironic statement given the party that is so clearly supported on the front-pages, but digg feels less and less 'democratic' with each passing day. If I wanted liberal (or, for that matter, conservative) news, I'd go to huffingtonpost (nationalreview)

Here's hoping that some of the old spirit of digg comes back. Because otherwise, I'm about ready to walk away from this site and not look back.

Re: The Grim Reaper has visited Digg

orkydd — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 14:17:56 -0000

The problem is a lot worse than the ones they have banned. Over 60% of the Top 1000 digg blindly -- digging at the rate of more than 3 stories/minute. They also digg mostly their mutual friends, which doesn't prove manipulation but it sure shows a pattern.

Re: The Grim Reaper has visited Digg

orkydd — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 14:08:25 -0000

A lot more than the ones they've already caught are gaming the system. 61% of the top 1000 Diggers digg blindly -- digging stories at the rate of 3/minute (not reading the story) and mostly digging only the submissions of their mutual friends. Here's proof: http://humanorbot.com

Re: The Grim Reaper has visited Digg

Rubab — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 14:08:08 -0000

join hands to help him in getting reinstated; we can also be banned for no reason..
here is interesting conversation between me and Zaibatsu http://www.pak-times.com/20...

Re: The Grim Reaper has visited Digg

Chris Lang — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 10:41:33 -0000

I have one better for you all. I chose to be banned from Digg by submitting 400 pages about the world's largest crap, (world's largest hole, world's largest bagel, world's largest pancake).

Basically I told Kevin and crew to Digg this! Here is the URL if you care to include it in the post. http://www.keywebdata.com/?...

They did not just delete the account, they banned me by IP address, so I can never come back and that is fine with me. My inbox is no longer overflowing with Digg spam, I do not care how many Diggs I have or worry about being banned.

I don't have to constantly answer and Digg shouts just so I can get mine Dugg in the never ending Digg race to the elusive front page.

Tell Digg Digg to Digg this and move on. It is only a matter of time before Google devalues this game and your Digg SEO manipulation gets you banned from Google too.

Re: The Grim Reaper has visited Digg

Ashmadai — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 01:10:46 -0000

I see that someone said above that 500 - 600 people were banned by Digg, I believe that but I can only come up with a list of 150 Diggers have been banned over the past week.

Of these 150 Banned Diggers over half (77 to be exact) were on the Social Blade Top 1000 Users site. 5 of those 77 were in the top 100. This means that 73 people who were banned from Digg who were not on the Top 1000 list, as far as this list is concerned.

Where did the names on the list come from?? On the Social Blade site, they turned the banned user red with the strikeout through it. The rest of the list came from this site. .

Two names on the list are prominent, they are ZoomTechTV and Zaibatsu. ZTTV stated here that he resigned from Digg, Zaibatsu was banned for allegedly posting a link to a spam site. How many others on the list did not use a script or bot, yet still were banned is unknown. Surely there were some.

I received a laugh over Babblin 5's reply for he is right, but there are (or were) easier ways to go by using one screen. All it involves is using the upcoming and front pages -- then clicking away like a madman. You could easily digg 4000 posts in one day and still have time for naps, eating, showering and watching a little TV. :)

Re: The Grim Reaper has visited Digg

Jim Gaudet — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 21:56:38 -0000

midnight420 and my account has been banned as well.

Moving to MIXX