Unbanned From Digg

Hi John
its really good that at last Digg came to realise their mistake. But actually I think that was more about a measure for self existance coz if Digg continued the old system and got many bloggers aganst them it would be ruined (now Netscape is also a ompetitor). So that is an act of mere self conciousness.

congrats John, your blog deserve to be digged. Hope to see your posts on digg's homepage

Wow, I see a lot of people were unbanned yesterday. I wonder why most of them got banned from the first place..? I mean, obviously Chow had some influential guys standing against him and burying his stories, but why are so many relatively unknown people were banned?

Allen.H

We'll see how long this lasts with people like chaunceysmith gaming John's site with comment spam and the like.

John,

You can link me later, I pulled some strings for you & the fellas ;)

Steve

Congrats!

I came across this post. Take a look.
http://www.naffziger.net/blog/2007/02/19/the-secre...

Interesting analysis of top 1000 blogs (by Alexa) and what Digg is doing wrong.

Congratulations, John! Hopefully your readership will double now! :)

Swollen Pickles has been unbanned as well! Woo hoo!
Still, I'm waiting for the sting in the tail...

This should have happened a loooong tim ago. Wake up, Digg!

Congratulations John :)

Congrats!

I'm soon going to begin 'digging' myself, looking forward to it :)

That is great news !! congratz

I'm wondering why they unbanned a bunch of people, cause my site was on the list of unbanned sites as well.

I never should have been banned to begin with since they banned me for content on a site I linked to, not my own site, but hey, glad to be back. Digg didn't effect my traffic much either way, but its nice to have people able to digg my stuff again.

My other site is not banned anymore pinkprank.com

home of the infamous ms nevada pics

It looks like your first attempt to get back on Digg got buried.

....and the funny part is if you look up the post using the search mechanism on digg (check buried stories) it comes up twice and are two distinct pages at the same URL. It is like the search is drawing from two separate databases.

This unbanning might very well be a glitch.

Interesting, and congrats. Do you think one can ever find out why the sites were unbanned [the criteria that was used]?

time to spam digg again!!

Looks like there's a glitch or the story was submitted in twice:

http://img454.imageshack.us/img454/4986/picture1rm...

I think the tech 100 party just moved from Mid March to march 3rd.

Congratulations. Glad to see that they're looking into cases where people were banned because the system was abuse. :)

John, that's great news for you. Digg is a nice broadcasting platform and with this many loyal followers you're guaranteed success. Not that you need it!

Good news for world domination :)

Sweet beans, congrats on being unbanned..not that it matter too much does it? :P

Congrats, John, but do you really need Digg?

I've stopped submitting my own articles, since the digg community claims I'm submitting "blog spam". Just explain how on f*cking earth original material is "spam"?

One disadvantage to "user generated/controlled" content sites is that they attract far too many "power brokers" who get off on being "in control".

The "malicious users" of digg went so far to prevent my Kevin Rose interview from appearing on the front page, that they attacked my host provider to the sum of 1 Terabyte in data.

All of this because I e-mailed some digg users to interest them in my interview with Kevin Rose and maybe digg the interview? These guys got their panties in a damn bunch and launched a massive offensive.

This is why I just go for the content these days, because I really don't have time to revisit the days of kindergarten.

Finally...haha...now you will get even more traffic!!!

This is great. John, time to put the Digg buttons back on!

This plugin should blow the competiton away (with the new smart digg buttons):
http://dev.lipidity.com/feature/wp-plugin-gregario...

I think the question now is, "How many John Chow stories can we get on the front page at once?"

Tomorrow's going to be a field day with all these oldies but goodies flooding Digg!!! lol

Hooray! Back on digg! They cant stop you!

That's good to hear! Congrats!

Congrats John. I knew it was only a matter of time.

Yep, same here! we just got unbanned.. :)

congratulations!

Whoops I entred the URL worng for my homepage - It works now :D

Congrats John,

BTW I felt like BRAGGING to you that if you type in 'John Chow AGLOCO' into google, Guess who will come up first?

Me!!!

Congrats on the unban!

My guess - Digg realized the amount of traffic viewing John's post (and others) on being banned was poor advertising and decided to act.

Hoever I doubt that this does anything to stop the misguided vigilante groups from doing it again.

Paul Stamatiou (http://paulstamatiou.com) was unbanned from digg today along with his other domain (pstam.com).

What would Digg be like without the root of all evil?!

I'm sure some boneheads will try to bury your posts again, but hopefully Digg has made the banning system a little more common-sensical.

Congrats John! I can't wait to see how fast your blog grows now that you can post on digg again!

Finally they came to their senses and I hope that it lasts. With this news I expect you to make a minimum of $7000 in March. :)

Woo hoo!

I'm unbanned too!

Thanks for the heads up.

I just Dugg my "Is The Secret Anti-Christian?" post and it actually Dugg!

Wonder what those DiggNation guys are up to that gave them a change of heart?

Now I'd better go put all those big "Digg this Story!" below each of my future posts.

Oh happy day,
Paula

Congrats John. ProNetAdvertising has a post that lists some of the sites that have been unbanned: http://www.pronetadvertising.com/articles/digg-let... .