Banned From Digg - Reported For Spam. How to Resolve?

[Lynn Terry]

Okay *sigh* off to beg fordiggness...

[wade_watson]

Your sushi and chocolate idea cracks me up.
I'm no Digg expert, but I once actually recommended your site to founder Kevin Rose's girlfriend, Melody McCloskey, through Twitter and she tweeted back that she liked it. I doubt if tweeting Melody or even Kevin would help with this though. I'm pretty sure Digg has a few layers of bureaucracy about things like this. I guess all those marketer who habitually digg they're own stuff has them pretty callous. Maybe if we start a campaign on your behalf. I'm game. I've always suspected that there's some sort of "inner circle" of diggers that have more say on that site than others. I suspect if we could find somebody with great Digg standing, who'd help, we might get some attention. Anybody know somebody?

[Lynn Terry]

Thanks, Wade.

I am less worried about Digg for marketing, as I am that my readers use the button and would obviously like to Digg and share certain posts. I never actually digg my own content as I mentioned before, but it stinks that they do a disservice to my readers. It'd be a different story if I had ever spammed their index, but that's just not the case...

[MaryGallagher]

It may have something to do with their categories of "diggdom" - If you could find out what area "spam" is identified from, you may be able to work around it, by asking digg techs to format a button to be "dugg" in a particular category. That's the most frustrating thing about digg to me and I have used that button on your site a couple times, Lynn. When I want to share about something, I don't want to sift through too many choices to id what the post or site is about. Make sense?
Best,
Mary

[AlexNewell]

I've done some exploring on this and it seems that small groups of "Diggers" veto blogs and that is it.

Official Digg policy is simply that "the community" has reported the site.

There's lots to read at http://www.johnchow.com/banned-from-digg/

[wade_watson]

After reading Alex's link and other things on this, I have to wonder if, perhaps, some of the same unscrupulous users Digg wants to keep out may actually be infiltrating and filtering their perceived competition. According to one quote, it takes as little as 10 votes to kill a story. I can't imagine who'd want to keep Lynn's stuff out, though. But some stinker could control 10 accounts and just filter out everything he figures threatens his own niche range. I can't help but think something doesn't smell right over at Digg.

A Digg search of "affiliate marketing" gets over 1000 results. All but 5 have under 100 diggs.

[Lynn Terry]

Ironically, I think it was my post on "Social Media Marketing - A Warning" that got me banned, which only had 88 diggs (but they came in all in a 24 hour period):

http://digg.com/tech_news/Social_Med...ting_A_Warning

It was after this post that the warnings started coming up.

Ironic because this was post was about NOT spamming social media properties

[Clay Franklin]

So far I have found one comment from Ali on a post about getting banned.
"I got banned to, though for reasons not as evil as yours, but got re-instated.

A nice email helps sometimes."

I found this email feedback@digg.com
at this article. http://www.ehow.com/how_2161428_digg-reinstate-account.html

Interesting article about users that get banned for digging too many articles too fast.
http://www.searchenginejournal.com/d...oo-often/4970/

[Lynn Terry]

Thank you Clay

[wade_watson]

I was just listening to Leo Laporte on his Net@Night podcast in which he says that Kevin Rose has recently taken greater control over the operation of Digg (apparently some things didn't suit him). One changes Kevin is making is to lift all site bans and give everyone a fresh start. I think this means your Digg buttons should be working again soon, if they don't already, Lynn.

Wade