[WARNING] Someone is monitoring this forum from Digg.

IT's such an easy catch here it was bound to happen: DP = a popular and public forum.

 

Hi ... I had a posting bumped from Digg, an hour or so ago, and the account that posted it banned; it maybe had 35 Diggs. Another posting lost 6 of 81 Diggs, but the account wasn't banned: wonder how that worked. Lost one on Netscape, over the weekend, too, and got only one exchange vote from DP; at best, it had 40+ votes, so 38 strangers liked it. At least I've the external links, for now.

Exchanging links, at worst, is marginal or illicit and hardly cheating. Not much different than staying in that 10 mph overage most places allow before issuing a speeding ticket. I track the Diggs, et cetera, I get against what's promised: the rate is 40%, at best. A very small number of Diggs or Votes or Stumbles is involved. Yes, it might get out of hand, but pigs might learn to fly or Shrub Jr might have a thought.

What gets me is the esoteric postings, which are seldom novel or curiosities, that get 4000 in two days and even those getting 151 Diggs in 24 minutes or 617 in 107 minutes. These are regular occurrences. Such postings have Black Hat written across every pixel.

I don't suspect PMing solves the problem. Rose has member-spies on every forum: white, gray or black hatted. They'd just set you up to knock you down. Have you read "1984." A lack of life experience and no possibility of retaliation makes bullying too much of a temptation to decline.

I breezed through the rules, on Digg and Netscape. Neither says you can't promote your postings, and what else is exchanging, but quid pro quo promotion. A friend runs a restaurant and 95% of his new customers come via quid pro quo. Neither site says you can't buy votes, either. Both delete and ban based on whimsy, not policy, as neither seems to have much of any policy.

Seventy years ago, such action was termed fascist and the world went to war to stop it, and ensure free expression. Promoting your work, your site or yourself is free expression. On Saturday, Mitt Romney won the Iowa Straw Poll, paying $35 a vote and none said boo. You and I exchange half a dozen Diggs or Votes, and we're banned as lepers. Ugh!

 

Also, don't make threads about it if the URL you want dugg is in your signature, I never mentioned my article, it was all over PM but I think they found my sig link.

 

That would be a cool job

Hum, seems strange that promotion would be cheating. Haven't gotten into digg yet.

Have had numerous people recommend it though.

 

by invite only?

 

It would still be a cool gig if companies would pay you to be a cyber cop

 

Not quite yet. The invites will kick in on later stages when the forum picks up.

 

Also do not PM your live URL. if you are opening the live URL from DP, they know that. So, they will bury your stories as well as ban your account.

Just PM the URL without live links.

 

Mine was banned too

 

Digg banned DP

digg banned a few popular sites and DP was one of them.
do a search and see what Sarahk posted about digg banned DP, she is a mod here

 

I thought this was going to come one day or another, alot of digg exchanges going on here. I think you guys should do this privately.

 

For months I gave so many warnings to people about this and they did not listen. You get that.

Col

 

Well, I don't understand it. My digg account seems to be working just fine! Maybe it's beacuse I'm not actually doing exchanges, but digging for free instead. Since I'm not getting anything back out of it, maybe I'm not violating any TOS?

 

Digg banned DP threads a long time ago, but that's not the issue here. We're talking about exchanging links to get dugg. Digg clearly says that it's against their TOS, so I don't see what the problem is here. I've wondered why people were doing Digg link exchanges so openly when they must know that it's against Digg's rules

As a Digg user, I understand why they would want to protect their site from this type of behavior. Their site is based on the idea that the users select what is newsworthy. When you ask someone to digg your site in exchange for digging their's, you're really not making any value judgment on that site. It might just be mesothelioma blogspam. When a lot of people are doing this together, it pushes that junk site to the top.

I really fail to see how any of this relates to fascism or "1984," as someone suggested. Digg owns the site, and they want their voting system to work as naturally as possible.

 

1. Don't post your URL here, do it via PM.
2. Don't digg your own story, get someone else to do it.
3. Don't get a story dugg that is complete and obvious spam.
4. I would investigate before hiring someone that offers you x amount of diggs for $x, the usernames are normally created with similar usernames and they don't care what type of story the digg. (There are some good ones, thats why you have to investigate.)

 

Digg servers tell them where the links came from. No need to have an employee read this forum. LOL, but thanks for the laugh.

 

Yes, thanks for the tip, don't click URL links, cut and paste them into your browser, or search for them in DIGG.

 

Maybe because you don't click on LIVE links ?

DarkX

 

If people post live links, or pm them to me, I do click on them. I also recommened to them that they don't post them live, but if that's what they give me, that's what I click.

 

I would suggst you handle everything via PM and different ips