I Was Banned from Digg.com
December 5th 2006 05:57
It's as schmall a shii---Hiccup! I shouldn't say that!
Just before I added cool Digg This Story buttons to my Blogger Beta posts, around the same time Kevin Rose went on his drunken podcast spill about the iPhone, I started getting this error message when I tried to Digg my blog posts:
This URL has been reported by users and cannot be submitted at this time.
This URL has been reported by users and cannot be submitted at this time.
This URL has been reported by users and cannot be submitted at this time.
This URL has been reported by users and cannot be submitted at this time.
What the heck is up with Digg, I wondered. I thought maybe we'd broken something when my hubby restored our PC this weekend. Then when I finally Googled (sorry, guys, it's a verb now...get used to it) the "This URL has been reported by users and cannot be submitted at this time" error message, I found that a handful of other people have written about being banned by Digg.
So most likely Digg thinks I'm a splog, or spam blog, as it were. Yeah, so the code I added to my template that automatically Digged my stories confused me at first. Sure there are a couple of duplicate posts out there. I hope that's all it is.
I hope the free DiggNation folks are no way banning me because of the crack I made about Democrats paying a bunch of kids to sit in a room and Digg certain articles all the way to the front page (which I heard is the God's honest truth...but maybe they didn't say Dems, maybe Liberals, but it's the same in my mind) in my How to Get on the Front Page of Digg post.
I pray the user-generated DiggNation will not become like Big Brother, and I don't mean the reality TV show, I mean the one in 1984. We'll see. Thanks to my fellow techies, I got the idea to post this same stuff on my Orble blog and then Digg that page instead.
Let's pray it remains...Big Brother Kevin is watching...and burping...
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