Today I read the below blog post and was shocked. SHOCKED! Apparently Digg is practising the digital version of a witch hunt on SEO sites. This isn’t on, and I have to say I absolutely disagree with this practice. Digg has a very natural vetting system, its call Digging, and I know that if an SEO article gets Dugg 50 or a 100 times + then its worth my time to read it. I may not be happy having read it but that’s anyone’s opinion and I can always ‘UnDigg’ it if I feel strongly about it.
Digg, get a grip, if you want to go down this path and it is a bit childish, then ban users that continue to publish from a single domain (probably their domain), but just chasing SEO sites and enforcing permanent bans is just bad practice.
What are your thoughts?
The hypocrisy of digg and spam
Posted by Lee Odden
Dec 20thMore aggressive SMO marketers often talk about being careful not to get user accounts banned on digg. But what about the domain name? Banning user accounts has to do with the actions of the user. That is, behaviors and actions the user can control.
However, a domain name brings into other considerations. For example, whether or not influential members of the digg community like or don’t like a certain site or topic, regardless of what the mass of digg users respond to in the form of story submissions and votes. The site or blog owner has little control over whether other people submit stories and/or vote on them, bury them or report them as spam. Even if they’re not.
Sites can be banned from having their stories submitted to digg based on the activities of others having nothing to do with the site owner.
I recently learned from a top digg member that certain digg community members decided to start getting rid of SEO sites by emailing spam complaints to digg. These community members definition of spam blogs is not what you might think. As long as the site has to do with SEO, they apparently consider it spam because the digg community generally detests anything to do with SEO.
Source: The hypocrisy of digg and spam - Online Marketing Blog
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stratman 03.05.07 at 4:57 am
If you ask me Digg sucks dirty filthy canal water. They ban people for no reason at all and then don’t even have the courage or courtesy to inform you of why you have been banned. All my sites were SEO sites because thats my online business. Its not spam and I don’t spam anybody. Yet I got banned from Digg for no reason at all so you know what I did. I wrote those bunch of idiots an email and told them exactly what I thought of them. Not that they cared at all but it gave me the satisfaction of doing it.
stratman 03.05.07 at 4:57 am
If you ask me Digg sucks dirty filthy canal water. They ban people for no reason at all and then don't even have the courage or courtesy to inform you of why you have been banned. All my sites were SEO sites because thats my online business. Its not spam and I don't spam anybody. Yet I got banned from Digg for no reason at all so you know what I did. I wrote those bunch of idiots an email and told them exactly what I thought of them. Not that they cared at all but it gave me the satisfaction of doing it.
Roger Kondrat 03.05.07 at 3:30 pm
Hi Stratman,
Yeah I hear you. I fortunately haven’t fullen under their bus, but their attitude is disturbing. It reminds me of Fox News to be fair.
Oh well the market will decide, and I think it will hurt Digg knowing that secret undefined groups are randomly banning sites.
I know I don’t use them at all and right now that hurts me as they can be good for researching, but I can’t support censorship regardless of its form.
Good luck with getting things sorted.
Rog
PS. For those evangalistic Diggers this isn’t in anyway a post that supports or condones spamming. That being said I do believe in social media remaining social and true to its users which I don’t think Digg is doing. Thats two knocks against your service from my perspective.
Roger Kondrat 03.05.07 at 3:30 pm
Hi Stratman,
Yeah I hear you. I fortunately haven't fullen under their bus, but their attitude is disturbing. It reminds me of Fox News to be fair.
Oh well the market will decide, and I think it will hurt Digg knowing that secret undefined groups are randomly banning sites.
I know I don't use them at all and right now that hurts me as they can be good for researching, but I can't support censorship regardless of its form.
Good luck with getting things sorted.
Rog
PS. For those evangalistic Diggers this isn't in anyway a post that supports or condones spamming. That being said I do believe in social media remaining social and true to its users which I don't think Digg is doing. Thats two knocks against your service from my perspective.
Roger Kondrat 03.05.07 at 3:31 pm
Stratman you should put your URI in your comments, it never is a good sign when you say something negative but don’t have to the courage to raise attention to yourself.
History rewards the brave.
Roger Kondrat 03.05.07 at 3:31 pm
Stratman you should put your URI in your comments, it never is a good sign when you say something negative but don't have to the courage to raise attention to yourself.
History rewards the brave.