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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