With My Mind on My Money and My Money on My Mind
|
With My Mind on My Money and My Money on My Mind
|
|
|
|
 Main PagesCategories
Archive
My NetworkMy Sites |
I haven’t logged into Digg for a few weeks, so I thought I would see what the YTMs are buzzing about these days. Saw a story I liked, clicked the digg button, it prompted for log in, then boom. There it is. A big ugly red error mesage saying my user account has been disabled due to misuse.
Now I am not by any means a big digger. I don’t really respond to those group digg requests that SEOs are now infamous for (don’t have the time, and sometimes don’t have the interest) . I occasionally digg up a story I like, and I never submit stories. I use it very sparingly, as an actual user. Not an SEO.
So why the Hell am I banned from using Digg? Is it because I talk about search optimization on my blog? Is it because I digg stories from other SEOs friends when I see them? Is it a glitch?
I have no idea. I sent a message to support@digg.com and got no response.
So this got me thinking… and you know what I came up with? F*#% Digg. F*#% iPhone stories. F*#% ubuntu. F*#% Kevin Rose. F*#% Democrats, Republicans, Green Party Ists, Separatists, Leftists, Rightists, Centerists, Photoshop crap, Ajax, and whatever else these punk kids deem worthy.
Digg has roughly 60% of the traffic it generated in December 2006 for a reason. Maybe it has something to do with the fact they ban people for who they are. I am an SEO, not a spammer. I’ve never spammed Digg or misused my account. I am now an internet user who USED TO use digg to find stories I might like.
You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
Chris Hooley’s -ThinkBait- is powered by WordPress This is copyrighted stuff. You can't steal it unless you are a jerk. If you like it, send traffic to it. |
Leave YOUR Comments!
markus941 Says:
August 4th, 2007 at 4:33 pm
You go, C-man. You go!
Pete W Says:
August 6th, 2007 at 2:09 am
You have to remember, Digg for the most part is filled with people with a mental age of 3 and a mouth that their mothers should have washed out with soap.
Digg, as a way of finding things to view when you’re bored, is great. But for being a community you want to be a part of, it’s not so good.
Sujan Patel Says:
August 6th, 2007 at 6:33 pm
Digg is banning people for digging to often and also starting to record the time you spent on the article.
jason Says:
August 9th, 2007 at 5:08 pm
popurls dude. It still has digg feed, but also reddit, del.icio.us and a few other good ones. Plus the stories link directly to the story page and not to the digg cloak spam pages.
affiliate networks Says:
August 11th, 2007 at 11:48 am
thats so lame. were you able to sign up again though with a different email address? or was it done by an IP ban?
Mr. GrownUpGeek Says:
August 24th, 2007 at 2:27 am
I was going to Digg this post, but now i’m afraid your bad juju might rub off on me!
Guess What I’m Gonna Do! I’m Gonna SPAM Digg… BAD! » Chris Hooley’s -ThinkBait- Says:
September 8th, 2007 at 10:46 am
[...] They have it coming. I have been a good user / member for years. Never did anything I wasn’t supposed to, contributed to conversations, dugg stuff I liked, rarely submitted a thing, almost never dugg stuff down, and they banned me anyways. [...]
jason Says:
September 20th, 2007 at 5:32 pm
Hey man… I agree. It’s pretty ridiculous what these a$$holes do… let’s fight it.
Now, on the other hand I thought it would be a good time to add my url… in attempts to increase my traffic.
Honesty, best policy, right?
[edit] not if you are gonna comment spam your domain bud