I'm sure they also check domain names, what urls we have all been using to submit our stuff. And sometimes we submit each others story. So basically, we are all connected somehow. But it was the fact that Emil had to take things one step further and publically, that made them take a need to take action. Very bad move!
Didn't think it was that big a deal, everybody did it here anyway there was a 19 page thread about it for god sakes how much more public can it get....I was going to keep it just here, but that korn guy submited.... But whate ever they banned people that weren't even in that thread, I just think webmasters aren't welcome at Digg..
anyway what can be said about this? http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=103655 A new club being made ready to start spamming digg
Add me to this list.. I was still able to log in some hours ago, checked now, seems I am banned too. If I try to log in it says "Sorry - bad IP address" < are they banning IP address too, will not be very easy to create "new" accounts I think.
Im fighting back. I had a link to digg on one of my sites and I took it down!! Ill show them not to mess with me.
Yes must be that! Pffft anyways not a "big deal" for me I was just digging to help others get to the home page
And i didn't want to go to the homepage. I just wanted to check out how Digg works. Had a taste of it. Really sorrow
That korn guy submited everything now he posted the same story, and now there is another guy who posted the same story only he was smart enough to write something up... http://digg.com/tech_news/Cheating_on_digg_2 http://digg.com/tech_news/New_Website_for_Cheating_the_Digg_System_Launched BTW: Seems the kornguy who was blowing the whistle everytime someone at DP made a digg request got banned also... http://digg.com/users/Kornmadefreaks I wonder how he feels the guy was actually trying to do the right thing they must have blindly banned a bunch of people...
Wow! That seems kinda harsh. I wonder if they are IP logging users who get referred from DigitalPoint? That would make the most sense for quick action on the spam-digg thing although it's a bit like taking a sledgehammer to squash a fly.
Keep Wondering..... I dont think banning has anything to do with Digital Point. perhaps this is due to asking friends to digg the story.
I dont think they are doing that, I think they thought he was promoting his site...eventhough he called me a loser, I kind of feel sorry for the guy, it seemed Digg meant a lot to him...