Comments on: Digg Cleans House, Bans 80+ Script Users

By: fizham

fizham — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 15:55:56 +0000

any other new digg script. forget it…..

By: tinyComb » Blog Archive » For The Win Mr. Marsh: “People Who Annoy You”…”DIGGERS” (That Use Scripts)

Sat, 06 Dec 2008 23:12:38 +0000

[...] tiny from: TechCrunch.com original post New to tinycomb? Subscribe via RSS or follow on twitter View glu’s Profile [...]

By: Joining The “Digg Bitch” Bandwagon | Nethackz.com

Joining The “Digg Bitch” Bandwagon | Nethackz.com — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 15:08:34 +0000

[...] Joining The “Digg Bitch” Bandwagon Ritu Digg it Add to del.icio.us Stumble it Script? All I have to say about that is WHO CARES! Is Digg doing great in traffic and usage? YES! The site could be a little easier to use if you ask me and if script enables people to use it faster….. so be it! It only works in Digg’s favor and you would think they would understand that. It will be very interesting to see what happens in the next few months. Digg might just become a ghost town and Yahoo Buzz could be the next guru. – TechCrunch [...]

By: dd

dd — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 05:46:43 +0000

Please see Bungalobill’s blog where he has a screenshot of Jeremy Buff’s advice on how to use scripts to auto-bury liberal minded submissions.
http://bungalob...r-conservative/

By: Social Media : 2 Crazy Monkeys and a Clever Fox | The Invesp Blog: E-commerce and Landing page Optimization

Tue, 23 Sep 2008 15:28:17 +0000

[...] administration. The banning saga that is going on on Digg has been covered by notable blogs such as TechCrunch. While cleaning out Digg banned one of the most influential and prominent user, Zaibatsu. This one [...]

By: AfterTheDotNet

AfterTheDotNet — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 07:14:25 +0000

Digg kicks off users – does the cleaning act?…

Reports are bubbling up that Digg has permanently banned over 96 users for running scripts that help them automatically perform certain tasks on the site.
……

By: How Digg resembles real life or How I stumbled upon the answer. | Ya-ttitude

Tue, 23 Sep 2008 02:38:29 +0000

[...] http://www.tech...0-script-users/ [...]

By: orkydd

orkydd — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 18:05:57 +0000

It’s a lot worse than the 80 they’ve spotted. Most of the Top 1000 Diggers are Blind Diggers — digging their friends stories in return for diggs of their own. Here’s the proof: http://humanorbot.com

By: Hard Rock Hotel Orlando

Hard Rock Hotel Orlando — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 13:32:53 +0000

sorry for the scripts

By: Ex dugg

Ex dugg — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 15:50:44 +0000

Isn’t there a big privacy issue if this list of names has appeared on a random website? How were these names obtained? What other details are digg just throwing out there to anyone?

By: winandmac.com

winandmac.com — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 15:32:51 +0000

[...] [via TechCrunch] [...]

By: Arnold - Mr.Gadget

Arnold - Mr.Gadget — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 08:35:04 +0000

Banned as well. Didn’t know that the scripts were illegal since some of the most prominent Diggers were using them for many months. Oh well.

Thanks for the courtesy of warning us Digg…

By: Ivan

Ivan — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 18:57:59 +0000

That's why I use HN exclusively. Digg and Reddit suck majorly.

By: Sean

Sean — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 18:19:48 +0000

About time …

————————————————
Get Free Digital Signage from http://www.MediaSignage.com
————————————————

By: Jacob

Jacob — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 17:25:44 +0000

But see, companies only enforce ToS’s when it suits them. Scripts have been used for a while, but it wasn’t only until recently that people began to cry about it – so to show some sort of action on Digg’s behalf, they picked some high profile scape goats. The right action here would have been to revoke API access of the application, not ban the user that created it.

By: Digg Cleans House, Bans 80+ Script Users | News Inventory

Digg Cleans House, Bans 80+ Script Users | News Inventory — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 17:25:00 +0000

[...] source [...]

By: Mich D dot

Mich D dot — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 07:46:15 +0000

I was banned and I used a greasemonkey script. I only dugg my friends stuff didnt spam. I broke a rule, digg has lots of cryptic rules. Good deeds get rewards.

This is life, diggs just a website. I live they lose page views. Its all good.

Peace
Mich D

By: th13rteen

th13rteen — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 07:35:12 +0000

To be honest, Digg isn’t necessarily making the right choice. They’re kicking out most of the mid-level guys and now what’s left is the strong top diggers and weak average diggers. Therefore, more domination!

I wrote a few things about why Digg is being communist and retarded. You might wanna check it out: http://www.webr...or-a-communist/

By: Alex Demidov

Alex Demidov — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 07:26:41 +0000

Right – digg doesn’t want coders to develop applications or script but its license agreement gives full permission to develop non-commercial applications that interoperate with Digg.com?

DIGG, INC. API LICENSE AGREEMENT
http://apidoc.d...icenseAgreement

1. GRANT OF LICENSE – Subject to your (”Licensee’s”) full compliance with all of the terms and conditions of this API Agreement (”Agreement”), Digg, Inc. (”Digg”) grants Licensee a non-exclusive, revocable, nonsublicensable, nontransferable license to download and use the Digg application program interface and other materials provided by Digg (collectively, “APIs”) to develop, reproduce and distribute non-commercial applications that interoperate with Digg.com or any other web property owned by Digg (”Digg Applications”).

By: digg refugee

digg refugee — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 06:21:33 +0000

I wasn’t banned but my friends on digg were. Like I’ve said elsewhere I’m not going to take up sides on it, I don’t know all the reasons why but it doesn’t matter. Without my friends it’s less a less interesting site (to me, I know) and I’m probably going to use digg less as my friends migrate elsewhere. I’m trying to reconnect with them on reddit and able2know and this article reminded me of mixx. Thanks!

By: ...

... — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 05:02:14 +0000

http://tegehel....ontest-17873518

Link to the original artist/deviant

By: Television Spy

Television Spy — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 04:39:54 +0000

Well I can understand why people would use scripts, a lot of things are tedious to do in Digg. But digging friends items automatically gives an unfair edge which is why I could see them not liking it. I think this is more of a pre-emptive strike to stop future gaming based off of this then actually trying to stop people from getting tasks done quicker.

By: For The Win Mr. Marsh: “People Who Annoy You”…”DIGGERS” (That Use Scripts)

Sat, 20 Sep 2008 04:32:15 +0000

[...] tiny from: TechCrunch.com original post Share and [...]

By: alexander-socail media guy

alexander-socail media guy — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 03:31:11 +0000

ByeBye – short selling in the stock market is NOT a manipulative tactic but a smart tactic when you see the writing on the wall. There’s nothing dishonest about it and no way for 1 person or a select few to manipulate the stock market.

The media manipulates it by what they publish and tell people not the small percentage who short sell.

As for Digg, a lot of this is probably in response to Google walking away from buying Digg because the place was “dirty”. Social news is about friends so you just have to have your eyes open and know this stuff is going on.

By: JIff Woods

JIff Woods — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 02:51:46 +0000

Dude, nice scripts. I liek them

Jiff
http://www.anonymize.us.tc