- Tell digitalgopher that his mother was a hamster and his father smelt of elderberries, and then fart in his general direction.
- Have Alzheimer's, or be like Leonard from Memento. "Oh, this digg website looks neat! I'll make a profile. Hey, this story seems cool! I'll digg it." Ten minutes later... "Oh, this digg website looks neat! I'll make a profile. Hey, this story seems cool! I'll digg it..."
- Undercut other users by submitting the exact same entry as theirs, only differentiating yours by adding "Read this one instead! It's super-cool!" in the title.
- Submit a story titled "Top 10 Reasons Why Netscape is the Coolest Ever!"
- Submit an article that has pictures of Kevin Rose spooning Owen Byrne.
- For each article on digg, post a comment that says, "Lame. Dugg down because it looks so fake." Actually, since it's on digg it should look more like, "laim. dug down bcoz it loks fak."
- Keep submitting stories like, "How to Smuggle Explosives onto a Plane" and "Best Ways to Take Out a Government Building." This is also a good way to see what an FBI official looks like in person, though you'll probably be handcuffed as well.
- Or you could keep submitting stories that are nothing more than pictures of you wearing a tutu and covered in butterscotch.
- Trash Ubuntu and say SuSE is where it's at.
- Submit a story titled, "Hey, Have You Seen This Cool Star Wars Kid Video?"
By: Rebecca Kelley
How to Get Banned From Digg
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The author's views are entirely his or her own (excluding the unlikely event of hypnosis) and may not always reflect the views of Moz.
These days it seems like everyone's written an article or blog entry on all things digg, e.g. why you shouldn't game digg, digg etiquette, whether digg is rigged. Jeff and I thought we'd join the bandwagon and offer our profound expertise on how to get banned from Digg:
Post an article about privacy : https://www.digg.com/users/rjonesx
thank you for this round up - hopefully helpful for my german speaking audience too…
Actually some of those so-called BANS are just FLAWED Spam-Filtering ALGOs. Digg is justifiably using complex, hi-tech spam filtering because they are so abused by spam - which eats up their bandwidth and decreases the overall quality of their popular site.
So, many times - there are false positives - when the algos reach their limits or goes awry.
One example, look what has happened one of their most popular, long term members...for the past two weeks :-D : LOL : ROFL https://digg.com/users/SearchEngines
So naturally, if anyone knows SearchEngines by now, all those stories that would have gone to Digg - were just submitted to other bookmarking sites - lucky them :-D .
Aww, you guys are no fun. Those are all actual ways to get banned :P
Thus the title of the post :p
Yeah, but mine's a bit tongue-in-cheek. Come on, it's Friday!
#18. Write a snarky post about getting banned from Digg.
I wonder what my new username should be?
Netscape
I think you need one of those big gaudy "If you liked this story Digg It!" buttons.
#18 By integrating one of those big gaudy "If you liked this story Digg It!" buttons on your website, so that every article will look like it has been submitted to Digg, thus spamming them.
PS: The link seomoz has, is just fine. :)
#11 By submiting every last article of your own website.
#12 By submitting a lot of articles in any other language then English
#13 By submitting articles with affiliate ID's in the URL
#14 By registering at Digitalpoint and digging the articles that other members post there (asking diggs).
#15 By making multiple accounts and digging stories using the same IP or same class C IP.
#16 By submitting a lot of articles from spam/new/irellevant/without authority websites.
#17 Tell aaaz that his mother was a hamster and his father smelt of elderberries, and then fart in his general direction.