Because it's never a spammers fault. They are just missunderstood.

Staff should remove the vBSEO part. It's not fair to an innocent party.

Since he is claiming it is the fault of vBSEO in this whole thread, the name vBSEO is a significant part of this discussion. I have reworded the title though.

I just read this thread and after seeing that you took the liberty to digg your own forum rules, how did you NOT expect to be considered a spammer? I too would have dropped you.

I never used that site, but I did take the time to see what it was about after seeing this thread. You DID spam. Your goal was to advertise your site. If you were going to spam that site the way you did, you should have applied some common sense in the process. Posting 30 times in a day, all aimed at YOUR site, is easily noticeable. Perhaps you should have limited your spam links to maybe 5 a day. Then you would have at least gotten some publicity without the risk of being spammed. You should have also avoided such useless diggs like your forum rules. That just made everything apparent to anyone paying attention.

Quality posts being dugg are one thing, useless posts being dugg gain unneeded attention and you drew it all on yourself.

I know you may not agree with what I am saying and you can pretend that you were not trying to self promote in the manner it is being called out (spam), but perhaps you should step back and look at it from an unbiased perspective.

vBSEO, just as some stand alone hacks available here on vBulletin.org (Example: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=119678 ), only adds a link to Digg.com (optionally), so it is in no way vBSEO's fault. How those links are used is up to the admin/users of the individual site.

nice one :D

Haha! That made me chuckle. :p

MARKETPROFITS -- hate to break it to ya, but you sound snobby / bitter for what had happened to your website. Digg has every right to blacklist your website/forums.

Ha, here he is agreeing with himself like nobody would notice it's the same guy who Dugg it in the first place...
http://digg.com/gadgets/Data_Protect...o_Hand_In_Hand

Other than you spamming your site ? I'd of dropped your bum too.

Wow, so many posts.

Well, my site isn't exactly blacklisted, it is just banned.
I created another account at Digg.com, totally different screen name and wrote a blog catered to the Digg.com "crowd-mentality" and it has already been "dugg" twice. Coincidentally, my forum's url was also listed on the excellent indirect advertising piece that I wrote and what do you know? I receive traffic and sign-ups! Apparently, my piece was really good and my forum's url is not the issue. The issue is with the user name "Market Profits."

I submitted my new piece with my new digg screen name because the old one is "burned." I hate changing screen names, don't you?

And my account at Digg.com is not banned either. I chose to create another one for my own success.

Apparently, when Digg receives multiple submissions from a single source that are subsequently "labeled" spam, their system automatically blocks the originating site.

And did I get caught doing anything wrong? Of course I didn't! Everything I did is questionable, but it is within guidelines.

Am I bitter? Not exactly. I'm only amazed at how digg relies on the subjectivity of a member to determine what spam is. Talk about an advanced method. Not like advanced calculations and algorithms.

Did I use vbseo correctly? Hard to say, but I do know that I didn't use it incorrectly.

And as far as I know, anyone who signs up at Digg.com has the liberty to Digg anything they want.

But, it is better to digg something in politics and attacking someone, as the Digg members prefer this type of "write-ups."

I wrote one just for them and bingo, it was a success. Here's to catering to Digg.com while indirectly plugging my forum! ;)

Thanks vbseo, for the extra traffic and sign-ups.
Thanks to all of you for your wonderful feedback!

Cheers.
The world is a better place.