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10 Famous Sites Banned By Digg

Discussion in 'Social Networks' started by soney218, Jan 1, 2010.

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    1. John Chow : One of the best and profitable blog out there. John Chow makes money by telling others how he made money with his blog.

    2. Techie Buzz : Techie Buzz strives to provide users with useful information about technology and the latest softwares, we also believe in sharing our knowledge with the world and have written 100s of tutorials and tips and tricks.

    3. John TP : JohnTP.com was started on November 2005 and currently receives over 9000 unique visitors daily and 15,000 pageviews.

    4. Digital Point Forums : Digital Point Forums is a place where discussions related to search engines, including optimization, marketing, tools and other technical aspects are made.

    5. Squidoo : The popular (free) site for creating single webpages on your interests and recommendations. Even earn money for charity or yourself.

    6. Text Link Ads : It is an advertising program. But unfortunately People were submitting stories with affiliate IDs in the URLs. By this Digg banned TLA.

    8. Ecademy : Ecademy is about for online networking for business, offline networking events and global networking groups. It has over 100,000 users but none allowed to digg.

    9. Paul Stamatiou : It is a personal and technology blog of Paul Stamatiou. It is about technology news, reviews, how to’s and guides.

    10. Wall Stats : Wall Stats is a blog which has stunning posters, enlightening visualizations, and a goldmine of great ideas. It has around 2000+ subscribers.

    The above mentioned sites were banned by Digg, but some sites were unbanned later.

    Do you know any other famous site banned by Digg? Please mention it in the comments!

    Source: HellBoundBloggers
     
    soney218, Jan 1, 2010 IP
  2. sammyspam

    sammyspam Active Member

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    Wow thats quite interesting, I was surprised that some of those were on the banned list. I suppose its because people are constantly digging them.. But i kinda thought that was the idea..
     
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    cmorley Peon

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    Great list. Do you know if they are still banned?
     
    cmorley, Jan 3, 2010 IP
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    bojandevic Peon

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    Thats interesting, probably because some illegal diggs.
     
    bojandevic, Jan 3, 2010 IP
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    chandan123 Prominent Member

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    even stumble upon bans several big sites not big issue :D

    try to stumble DP :p
     
    chandan123, Jan 3, 2010 IP
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    Onera Peon

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    No, it is not that people are digging articles from their sites but most of the articles in some of the sites are useless and don't provide any real value. Also, I don't know about the entire list but I know certain make money site from the list was engaged in dubious practices to gain more digg. Good that they are banned.
     
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    loveband Greenhorn

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    just because of some persons use that site for spaming activities
     
    loveband, Jan 3, 2010 IP
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    tjs1954 Well-Known Member

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    A while back I submitted about four articles in one day and I got a warning message that I would be banned for spamming if I did it again.
     
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    Organs Peon

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    Dp forum is banned by digg, well, I didn't know that before.
     
    Organs, Jan 3, 2010 IP
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    QuackWare Member

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    Thats interesting I knew a few famous ones that were banned but never thought that DP was banned as well.
     
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    it only means that..the person behind this social bookmarking sites still checking entries there...:)
    interesting...they dont mind whether its a well established one or not..
     
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    lol. DP is also in lost :D
     
    ghyper.com, Jan 4, 2010 IP
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    lambda1 Well-Known Member

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    No wonder. You can even add Wordpress into the list. The reason for Bans is simple. Users spammed hte hell out of Digg with these sites :D
     
    lambda1, Jan 4, 2010 IP
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    scheng1 Peon

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    I really question the value of Digg. They must be really stupid to ban those popular sites with valuable information for readers.
     
    scheng1, Jan 4, 2010 IP
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    Thats interesting Paul Stamatiou stands out in particular
     
    momoklick, Jan 4, 2010 IP
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    Ibn Juferi Prominent Member

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    How do you find out if certain sites are banned from Digg?
     
    Ibn Juferi, Jan 4, 2010 IP
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    Geezzz...I have yet to digg my articles, whats the effect of digg anyway?
     
    maryjoanna, Jan 4, 2010 IP
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    webcosmo Notable Member

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    interesting. i dont get it why John Chow would get banned:)
     
    webcosmo, Jan 4, 2010 IP
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    ~kev~ Well-Known Member

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    I wonder if enough people reported sites like google, CNN, Yahoo, FoxNews, Youtube,, if digg would ban them also? Or does digg only ban the smaller, privately owned sites?

    Here is something to try, submit a bunch of youtube videos as spam on digg - and see if digg bans youtube. Now that would be funny.
     
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    vickygarg Peon

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    they ban u from posting but let u login so that they can earn for adverisers.Wonder if digg will ban sites like google and yahoo,lol!
     
    vickygarg, Jan 4, 2010 IP