Digg unbans several banned domains
As many of you know, Digg hasn’t really got the world’s most transparent policy on banning domains. If many Digg users mark a domain as spam, it might get banned, but it also might get banned for other reasons. This resulted in many popular domains from some very prominent bloggers like Seth Godin or Paul Stamatiou on the banned list.
Well, as reported by Pronet Advertising, Digg unbanned several previously banned domains.
The unconfirmed list of unbanned domains (courtesy of Pronet Advertising) is:
- Online Marketing Blog
- DigitalPoint Forums
- John Chow
- Squidoo by Seth Godin
- Text Link Ads
- SEO News Blog
- Ecademy
- Connected Internet
- Real Estate Webmasters
- Rock My Monkey
- Paul Stamatiou
- Paula Mooney
- Alan Lewis
- v7n Forums
- Luca Filigheddu
- Find in Forums
- Encyclopedia Dramatica
- Oliver Stone
- Kineda
- Dingorue
This is good news, because many have felt that Digg’s banning policies were unjust, and I tend to agree. Many of the sites on this list were definitely not splogs - some of them have barely any advertising - and yet they were banned for being “spam”. Still, it doesn’t mean that this enables webmasters to do what they want. There is a lot of unwritten rules on Digg, which should be followed if you don’t want to get banned. Example: to test if he was really unbanned, John Chow submitted one of his articles to Digg. Of course, there’s nothing wrong with that, but he should know by now that Diggers don’t like when you submit your own articles.
February 23rd, 2007 at 11:27 am
On the contrary if sometimes your stories get submitted from your blog by other diggers it has happened that they ended up in the wrong category or got submitted with a heading and description that didn’t grab attention.
So sometimes it might be to your advantage to just digg it yourself, sometimes it is not.
February 23rd, 2007 at 1:28 pm
Thanks for the link love! Yes, I was very happy to see that Digg let my http://www.paulamooney.blogspot.com/ blog back in after months and months with no good reason why they banned me. But it’s cool…I got a lot more pub being banned!
Happy Friday,
Paula
February 23rd, 2007 at 2:41 pm
I wonder if any of this is related to the slightly dropping traffic (according to highly suspect Alexa). I really wish there was a clear policy on what can or can’t be done. Sure the community is important but that doesn’t mean that there shouldn’t be leadership.
Good to see these blogs reinstated.
February 24th, 2007 at 4:49 am
I sincerely doubt this has anything to do with Digg’s traffic. According to Techcrunch, Kevin Rose claims they’ve altered some voting algorithms so that what was previously perceived as gaming would not work any more.
I’d say it’s just common sense. Many of the sites from the above list really aren’t splogs.
February 25th, 2007 at 12:23 pm
It won’t be long before Ecademy is banned again. That place is built on spam and blatent self-promotion. It’s part of the culture. They can’t help it. They’re also not very clever.
You wait and see.
March 28th, 2007 at 1:49 pm
Digg.com is getting cocky and banning small web sites just because digg’s users submit them to digg and digg’s moderators don’t like it. Scifidigg.com is the latest victim of Digg’s “We are big, you are small and we can do whatever we want� attitude.
First some background.
After running the website Scifi2u.com for the last year we realised there was a demand for a scifi digg type website – 6 Days ago ScifiDigg.com was born and is powered by open source Pligg and the YouTube API.
So what went wrong?
The site went live on the 22 March 2007. People submitted stories and video links to digg and other sites del.icio.us, Yahoo, Simply and Reddit. Having a submit button makes submitting very easy and fast but that could be a problem.
Let’s get to the point
WITHIN 6 DAYS THE SITE HAS BEEN BANNED FROM DIGG
Digg’s moderators decided that since the link pointed to my site and the posts are mainly videos from YouTube ScifiDigg should be banned from digg and no other links from scifidigg.com can be posted to digg.
Digg’s response
I contacted digg to find out what happened and why they blocked my site. The response I got from them was that my site violated their terms of use, by copying another site. I explained to them that although the video is streamed by YouTube we give the facility for original coments to be added.
The response I got was that they do not allow sites that copy other sites to be submitted to digg. I told them that according to their rules they should also ban Yahoo news, since it does not have an original content but republish articles from PCWorld, Reuters, MACWorld and others. Also falls under this category other major sites like neowin.net, blink.nu and many more that are doing exactly the same infact they should ban YouTube because the video content is often copied from other video websites. But hey, they are big sites and digg can’t pick on them without repercussion, like they can pick on small blogs that try to establish themselves.
So what have we learned?
· Digg’s users don’t really determine what gets promoted, but digg’s moderators do.
· Digg have a different set of rules for small site and different rules for big sites, even though both are doing the same.
· Digg will ban a small site just because one of its user’s submitted an article that other digg members liked and promoted, but moderator didn’t like the link.
· Digg will not listen to reason when told that the site did not violate its TOS.
I am going to create a Digg.com clone http://www.BannedDigg.com Watch this space!!!
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