Digg is banning some useful sites. Recently when I tried to submit my article from Computersight, I got a message “This URL has been widely reported by users as being regularly used to spam Digg's submission process and cannot be submitted at this time”. I waited for some time and tried another time. Then the same message repeated. Whenever I tried I received the same message.
At last I contacted the Digg support and they answered me that I could not submit that article because it was spam. I was stunned by the reply because neither the article nor the website contains spam content. At that time I got curious about the spamming or banning of websites at Digg. Then I searched for and learned many things. Here I am sharing the information with you.
There are three types of bans in Digg:
Permanent Ban:
When you try to submit content, a message appears saying “URL is on the banned submit list.” This is a permanent ban.
Temporary Ban:
“This URL has been widely reported by users as being regularly used to spam Digg's submission process and cannot be submitted at this time”. This may be a temporary ban. Some sites which were listed with this tag don't appear to be currently banned.
Banning for Some Period:
Sometimes the banning may be for a period of time. Then the message appears like this “Please link directly to the story source. This URL has been reported as a news middle-man, it will remain blocked for x days”, x being any number.
Digg banned many famous sites like Geocities, Furl, News Now nearly one and a half years ago. But after sometime it let many of the banned sites backed in.
Actually, Digg banned adult content of all sites and some sites containing spammed advertisements.
At present some domains and websites are banned at Digg.
Here is a list of some banned sites. The articles from these sites cannot be submitted at Digg.
You can find excellent computer related articles here.
Ezinearticles.com is an online writing site for expert writers to post their articles to be featured.
Goarticles is a free content article directory.
This is a social bookmarking and blogging site like Digg.
