Saturday, October 11, 2008

My $0.02 on digg...

...So...after three almost 3 years of loyalty to digg, i was unceremoniously banned...forever...i would digg between 30 and 80 subs a day and shout between 3 and 5 of those to my 350+ mutual friends, and the script that i used for make those shouts allowed me to easily shout from 1 to 200, and ten minutes later i could select 201 to 350 without manually selecting from them from the list... a real time saver!..this should have been a feature!...i also had a mirrors script installed...i would digg my friends stuff 90% of the time unless i thought it was REALLY lame,and if they kept sending me lame stuff, i would De-Friend them...I would at least skim it before digging it, and digg up my friends comments...i mean hey!...i had a good rep and wanted to keep it that way..blind digging and digging lame shit is not good for ones reputation!...I remote administer 5 small business networks, and that allowed me to spend quite a bit of time on digg, so apparently spending too much time digging is forbidden and construed as "egregious violations of the Digg.com TOU", and to top it all off "Due to the nature and severity of abuse, your account will not be reinstated. This decision is final and irreversible."...pretty harsh...especially since i hadn't abused anything!..what was even more confusing was when friends of mine that didn't even know what a script is, started dropping like fly's, saying they were banned for the same reason!...something is rotten at digg and it has little to do with script usage and more to do with politics and suppressing free speech is my conclusion...it's cool though, i live at Mixx now and i am really starting to like it...it has features that digg should have adopted long ago, not to mention they actually care about what the users have to say...hopefully it will stay that way ...and to all my digg friends and enemy's, if you want to get in contact with me, feel free to email me at markusgarvey13@yahoo.com, or at the Anti_Zionist group on Mixx where my user name is...you guessed it!...MarkusGarvey...keep up the good fight!...and...Kevin, Jay and Jen...suck my balls!...

3 comments:

iceah said...

dropping by and reading your post c:

Unknown said...

Hi

I am working on a site which try to solve many of the problems with digg.com.
You can find it on http://crowdnews.eu.

The main problem with digg is the voting system.
When only top voted stories get on the front page it has
to be a subject that many can relate to,
which result in stories with a low information content.

Crowdnews solves this by using sharing instead of voting.
Every have a personal news page on which they can subscribe to other users and when those users share stories they will appear on the personal news page.


Join me on CrowdNews

AmericanGoy said...

goodness sake!

what, am I next?

sheesh.