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Was I banned from Digg?
Posted by pointlessbanter • 4/24/08 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
So I made the top upcoming yesterday for my story and my post promptly disappeared. I was contacted by a top digger that wanted to help me.
Here is what he had to say, "Kewl, well, for starters there is some chance that the site in question is on the 'autobury' list. The existence of this list has always been denied by Digg itself but virtually all top users agree it exists. What does it mean? Well, either there is a dedicated team (of people without lives) out there burying everything that is submitted from a list of sites or (more likely if you ask me) Digg has decided to have this done automatically and internally. If your site makes it on the list, well, it's pretty much hopeless - about the same as being banned. XXXXXXX (removed name) was on the autobury list for almost a year and somehow did make it off - maybe it 'expires' over time? XXXXXXX was removed however has been on it for a long time and everything that gets submitted from that site now fails.
Besides that though Digg looks a lot at who votes for what. If something gets *way* more votes than anything would naturally over a given period of time that can flag their system and cause a Digg moderator to look. If the moderator decides the system is being 'gamed' they will manually bury the story on their end. Also, check out the Ajax Bury Recorder tool (Google for it, I don't know the URL offhand) and see how many buries your stuff is getting. If something gets just one bury and is then removed from the upcoming sections of Digg that's a virtually sure sign that Digg has decided to bury it internally.
Anyway, that is some of the basic stuff. My recommendation: don't shout more than 100 people per story at a time. If you want to shout more wait a few hours, delete your old shouts, then send out another round."
So I am getting helped out by a few people and seeing if I get buried again without going too crazy with pushing it. You know like mailing the entire b5 media mailing list and things like that. If you can take a second out and vote for the favorite story on my profile on digg I would appreciate it.
digg.com/users/kp2575
I will keep you posted on what is going on with it.
User Comments
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No kidding huh? I read the title though and I was all wha? WTF? Heh.
Glad to see YOU weren't banned from Digg - just that your stories may have been, erm, tampered with?
Let us know!-
yeah it is interesting to learn about how the site really operates.
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"yeah it is interesting to learn about how the site really operates."
So you can tinker with the inner workings? -
I haven't even logged into Digg in weeks. I just get all confused.
i know, I know, easy thing to do ....
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I only can tinker with myself.
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I thought everyone knew they did that.-
I read things about it but didn't believe it until it maybe happened to me... Just like vd.
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Pointless, you're so Ally McBeal.
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except 100 pounds heavier
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Now that's just mean. So what if she whistles when the wind blows. Don't hate on people just coz they are 2 dimensional.
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Bet he hallucinates the baby dancing to Barry White too.
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That darned biological clock
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So did I. There's a "core" group of oldtimers there (techy punks) with attitudes who block vote.
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sons of ...
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SO what would happen if an Anarchist was set loose on them?
that's a mischievous grin, in case you're wondering....-
She'd get confused. Pay attention to the thread
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Damn you!
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Geez, I just got this flashback to ol' Nikita Khrushchev screaming, "We will bury you!!"-
Hahahaha Chuckle.....giggle...ahhhh
*snort*
That was funny right there....
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If they can bury you like that, is there a reason for participating on the site? Or is that a dumb question. I'm taking my chances.-
Basically you make the front page you are going to get 30-50k page views.
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And some nice straggling after that. The last article of mine that made the front page got about 40,000 hits the first day and 12,000 the second, but in the three weeks since then it's brought about an additional 2,500 new visitors to the site. In fact, yesterday I noted a visitor from Digg page 194! (Who is reading page 194? Why? Can I help in some way?) -
Someone with a lot of time on their hands, I suppose. Or maybe the person randomly picked page 194, just to see what was there??
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The same people digging up stuff on these boards from page 194?
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isn't that why its called digg
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Oh, I'm sorry! That was me being jealous of your popularity again.
I work at Digg, you know. -
(I shake my fist angrily at you.)
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Hey, I'm only human. Stop being so damn popular.
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I need to drink
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do people still .. digg?
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