Banned from Digg

Banned From Digg

URL Banned From Digg

http://www.eyedoctornewsletter.com/bannedfromdigg

Digg is one of those communities that seem to be a good thing but like any thing it can be abused and a little confusing if not unfair. So I have been a member of Digg since November of 2007 and have increasingly participated in submissions and getting and receiving shouts and digging friends' submissions on a regular basis through out the day. I have accumulated 617 friends mostly by being notified that I had a fan and making them a friend.

I have increasingly submitted news items and have always been careful not to duplicate content. I have put up some news reports before they even get picked up by the wire services and I have put a lot of my own content up which I know is not duplication. I carefully check the possible duplicates presented before I submit and bury those which have been submitted already.

Basically trying to be a good member and participating in the process. I get lots of comments from members saying they Dugg my story and it was great and they often request I dig theirs. Most stories are not submitted form news wires but come form the personal blogs or websites of other members. I also put my submissions on my website and upload and submit them. This appears to me to be common practice. So to my surprise, I get this quote when I try to submit my latest submission.

This URL has been widely reported by users as being regularly used to spam Digg's submission process and cannot be submitted at this time.

I don't know who reported spam but I know I don't have to receive shouts and as a matter of fact as you submit a shout the page tells you they only submit shouts to people who choose to receive them.

Spam I understand very well. I don't understand how you can spam someone who tells you to send it to them. I did get a comment form someone who said to only send them market related news shouts. Well excuse me but I don't usually have any interest in the market but I removed that person as a friend. Less than thirty minutes later, I received a request from that individual to make him a friend again. Go figure.