So Much For Being Back On Digg

Digg should not bury legit Diggs, while taking care of spam.

Personal Development

seriously, this is very lame.

Personal Development

Seems that they are working against themselves. They release a "Digg This" button and functionality to add to your website, but if your group (readers) digg the story, it gets buried.

Oxymoronic!

Take a stance Digg, all or nothing.
Allow websites to promote a digg submission or make it against the rules. This in between policy is very unclear...

I think it is a good way to deter specific groups from always bringing a story to the front page and if the blog has a big following, that is easily done. That way, you can't digg your own article too.

However, there HAS to be more to the digg-bury algorithm how you have explained John and obviously (like Google's algorithms), it will never be revealed. I believe the Digg guys are much smarter than that i.e. to base the quality of the digg solely on the person digging it.

OK, interesting - so does that mean that loyal readers of a blog should not Digg articles on that blog? Then who is going to Digg it the first dozen times?

I'm not sure this was a smart move by Digg - they might need to tweak that algorithm a little bit. Of course they should take care of spam - but they also have to be careful not to bury legit Diggs...

Oops, it was me, John. I thought it was a good article so I dugg it to see how would it go.

Sorry....

Kribo

I wonder who is in your "group", and if someone that's not in you "group" submits your story, but then a lot of people in you "group" digg it, will it get buried?

Well, as I mentioned before, do you really need Digg? I think not. If I had the traffic you're getting these days, I sure wouldn't care. You're probably better off with the "power brokers" which make up the Digg community.

Haha looks like it's more of an honour thing to be banned from Digg!! It's like you're the coool outcast..

Hey I think they are trying to kill the popular blogs coz they cant make something like that

this can be good lesson to all Diggers
once you do BAD then u will remain SAME ...

in my opinion the stories submitted by Kirbo should be to Lesterchan (the author) site instead of your site (and he deserved that)

Congrats! Guess that they actually have to think twice before doing something like that again. I wonder the progress of any other banned personnel getting unbanned.

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Well, I can always submit stuff for you John! Let me know if I can help in any way.

Hey, your comment box doesn't ask for what year it is...hopefully I don't get a dummy pop up and say enter year, guess we'll find out.

I think that this comment is encouraging though:

"Thus, there is no real need to ban any particular site from Digg. They are confident that if a story from a previously banned site makes it to the home page, it deserves to be there".

It looks like banning is a thing of the past, and that they're going to let their algorithm do the work from now on. Unfortunately, it also looks like that same algorithm is what is preventing your stories from making it to the front page, but I think that even this problem could be easily overcome with a little algorithm improvement. I'd hope that's the case at least.

This is so weird - They didn't give you the reason why you were banned then unbanned your site ?

The only hope is newbies such as myself, still flying under the radar at Digg. Viva la John Chow!

John...there is a saying "every disappointment is a blessing" you just haven't seen it yet.

I'm sure there is more to it and that you are probably oversimplifying it.

Digg is a huge site and has a big and talented development team. They've already shown how far they've gone with their "Digg algorithm", to push the best stories to the front page and I have little doubts that their "buried algorithm" is any different.

Hello John,

Your reputation precedes you. I'm sure you've seen my mug on your blog before. I have visited several times, but this is the first comment I've left.

After hearing that a friend and fellow blogger, Paula Mooney, was banned from Digg and that you were as well, I thought that it would be a worth goal to get banned also. I look at it this way, if your posts are so popular that Digg thinks they are being spammed is that a bad thing? I want to become that popular! So, I am looking forward to the day I'm banned from Digg. I'll be happy when that day comes.

Jose

That's super lame John.

Agreed, better to be banned than to be stuck in a program where you can't participate. Why don't you just e-mail Digg asking to be re-banned. Or you could always engage in some behaviour that would get you banned... That is, if you're evil enough ;)