Yup it’s true! I’ve officially been banned from digg.com. I don’t know how it happened but yesterday when I tried to login to digg an article, I get a nice little “Account Disabled� message. Since I’m sure most of you haven’t seen it, this is what it looks like when you’re blacklisted from digg.
So that’s not too bad, just create another account right? Yes but then I’ve lost my history of diggs, all my #1s and my entire friends list.
After creating another account, I attempt to submit the article I wrote yesterday since I know a lot of digg users like Tower Defense games. Lo and behold, I get this lovely message:
The full message states:
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.
Say what?? My site is used to spam the submission process? I hardly ever submit my posts to digg  I only submit those I think the digg population would like. At most, I submit two or three posts a month. Now I’m not sure if any of my readers submit my posts since I do have a little digg button at the end of every post but honestly, even if every post gets submitted, that’s only one submission a day… hardly enough to constitute spam in my opinion.
I have e-mailed digg regarding this but I’ve heard that they are notorious for not responding to e-mails. Looking around at other people’s experiences with being banned from digg, it appears that this could be a digg mob at work  a group of digg users going around burying submissions as spam thereby causing digg to automatically flag a domain name as spam. Not very democratic but an inherent flaw that comes from a community-driven site.
Anyway, on the bright side, John Chow was banned from digg half a year ago but he seems to be doing quite fine! Am I going to boycott digg? No, they’ve brought me a nice bit of traffic in the past and I still enjoy reading their site very much. I’m just hoping to hear back from the digg team and hopefully get my url unbanned!
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I may have mentioned this here before, but I personally prefer StumbleUpon. Though I am a bit worried about the eBay merger, I haven’t heard of anything like this ever happening there.
sorry to hear it Jon.
hope they will get your account back soon.
I’m liking StumbleUpon a lot too. It actually brings in the majority of visitors but it isn’t like Digg where you get a big hit of visitors at once, instead you get a large number of visitors over a long period of time which in a way is better since it won’t bring your server to its knees.
You can get banned from digg for submitting your own content? I didn’t know that.
Could you use some smart redirect from another domain?
Good idea.. but that would definitely piss off the digg community
Only if you submit a lot of your own articles, or if a group of diggers decides they don’t like you for some reason and work against you. Even 10 or 12 diggers can accomplish this I think
I must agree that the traffic from stumbleupon is much more manageable, and IMHO of higher quality.
I always though a digg-ban was a sign of success
/me holds 2 fingers up in the air at the digg fanboys…
Keep up the good work, and don’t let the politics of digg get you down!
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Awesome blog!! I can’t believe you were banned from Digg!
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Unreal. Let us know what happens.
Oh, I didn’t now that at all… that one could banned for submitting one’s own entries. Well, I’ve never done that once… so I have nothing to worry about. Actually, I don’t think any of my drivel has ever been dugged. LOL.
maybe u exchanges diggs maybe some one submitted ur posts on digg numerous times. anyways whats the big deal. Digg dont bring u much traffic anyways. stumble is the best traffic source .:D
lolx..lucky i not the only one
i also get ban from digg because of spam
So, sad .
Now you have to start all over again!!
It does seem like a lot of popular sites get banned, so this may be right. Then again I’ve never been banned, so it must not be the case.
[...] Jon Lee got banned from Digg for some reason, which is a bit strange since I regularly read his blog and…well, I [...]
Hmm… where is it, I can’t find it!
Good to hear that I’m not the only one.. I guess. So what social networks do you use/rely on now?
Been banned for quite some time myself, not sure why I as submitted at most 3 articles.
My site was banned two several days ago, I hope my site could be unbanned later.
Rosari