Good evening all.
It recently came to my attention that the ny-dev.com domain is banned from digg due to 'spam', or reports of spam relating to our posts.
When Danny attempted to contact Digg regarding this issue, as we are still a small site trying to expand, and one of the avenues we've selected in order to achieve this is through partnerships with sites like digg to get our content out there - he received the following (I presume automated) response from digg:
Quote:
When submitted stories are consistently reported as spam and users complain via our feedback email about submission spam, we ban the domain. The domain will not be unbanned. The domain would consistently get reported as spam otherwise.
-The Digg Watch Team.
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We are not the first innocent party to be banned by the draconian policies implemented and maintained by Digg, on a recent trawl through the web for related issues, I came accross this:
And the List of Domains Ditched by Digg Keeps Growing » 10e20 - Search, Design & Social
While site's like Digg are, of course, entitled to their own policies and measures - a permanent ban on a site for 'spam' is at best questionable, this is akin to chopping of a person's head for broadcasting the fact they like apples!! Yes, a bit of a drastic comparison, but on ethat I feel is just.
The amusing thing I found is that a lot of the digg community are also not fans of
SEO, and will try to ban a domain by reporting it as spam in order to eliminate the articles on
SEO and related techniques. Now, correct me if I'm wrong - but digg itself is an enormously potent
SEO resource - delivering content to digg instantly brings the URI it refers to increased hits.
So not only outdated and draconian, it seems digg's members' ideals are also schizophrenic at best, and hypocracy at worst.
Though we could go through a lot of hair pulling about this one, as we are a small community, and, as things go - digg doesn't seem to be interested in the efforts of the people driving it's content anymore - we're not likely to get our name un-banned (you saw the email)...
Digg is still a powerful resource, but I implore the administrators of digg and diggnation to review their policies, and, at the very least, set up a review and appeals process for users, like us, who feel we've been barred from delivering content through their engine without due cause.
When I tried to get some answers out of digg for exactly which posts we were being banned about, I got nada - when Danny tried, all he got was the email above.
In light of the above, I have created a small script on my host -
Digg: Modify your policies, please?.
Please feel free to contribute your own views on this.
Regards