30DC-ers banned by digg?
I hate to be the bringer of bad news, but it seems that digg.com is onto suspending 30DC related accounts as well. Looks like this years 30DC has such a huge impact that we’re easily noticed by even major web2.0 platforms, and characterized as spammers. Shame, ’cause I know that it’s an everyday practice of most SEO people to ’scratch your back if you scratch mine’, or ’share love’ as Ed said it much sweeter.
One of my teammates noticed that his IP is banned by digg, and as I logged into digg, I saw this:
This is a brand new account of mine that’s been suspended so I know exactly when I used it and what for:
- Created 2 stories for my 2 R.I.P. tumblr blogs + 1 experimental story
- Gave diggs to a couple of my 30DC teammates
It might be that this is not at all the reason for account suspension, my guess is that maybe I’ve accidentally used Social poster twice to digg same stories. Maybe the sole use of social poster is not OK with digg, and is reason for suspension.
Now, I tend to look at 30DC as a big experiment and a place to learn a lot, so I’m not upset by downers that happened in the past few days, neither should it bother you. I just hope that we’re all able to carry on ’till the end of challenge, and receive knowledge that Ed & Co are so generously sharing.
I would like to hear your experience, anyone else’s digg account ‘burried’ forever?
Update: Read this cool article that explains what might be a problem here: How to Get Banned by Digg
