Banned from Digg.com after spamming my forum using vBSEO links

[Zoints]

One of my forums got banned for the exact same reason. I don't hold it against vBSEO though, I commend them for their forward thinking. A few rogue members on my forum are the ones who ruined it.

Rather than complain to Digg, I have decided to take a different route...

[BigJimTheLug]

Originally Posted by Code Monkey

Search engines are there to index your threads and posts. Social bookmarking sites are there for a whole different reason. And it is within their rites to protect their product from those that wish to manipulate it. Just like google bans sites for trying to manipulate it's results, so do these new sites like Digg, Furl and others. Nature of the game. Wearing a black hat is always risky business.

Can you tell me the reason "social sites" are there for?
It is beyond my grasp at the moment.

I thought "social sites" were there to "help increase site awareness."

Obviously, I was wrong. And maybe I should not have dug all those threads as "digging a lot of different threads is considered spam." But when you have "civilized beings" such as those found on this picture, purposely trying to ban me proof )

There is a problem.

I found a ton of false complaints and I know I didn't do anything wrong. All I did was use Digg.com, vbseo, and my forum to their full advertising capacity; even though I don't think this point of advertising exist. But I have screen shots to prove members purposely attacked me, and Digg's TOS look like they were written by a three year-old. In short, I'm awaiting on a reply from the abuse department as me and my forum have been abused and falsely accused by Digg.com members and subsequently, staff.


I know there are other sites, but it gets annoying having to modify the postbit every time.

I have dollars to make....

Originally Posted by DChapman

One of my forums got banned for the exact same reason. I don't hold it against vBSEO though, I commend them for their forward thinking. A few rogue members on my forum are the ones who ruined it.

Rather than complain to Digg, I have decided to take a different route...

Do you have proof people where purposely trying to ban you and coming after you? I do.

That's why I'm complaining.


What route did you take?

Personally, my route is to give a laptop to the first person who reaches 100,000 post along with other incentives. (Of course, they have to be within Google's TOS, and those are very vague)

[Ntfu2]

Originally Posted by MARKETPROFITS

It has caused a major loss of traffic only from Digg.com.

Apparently, only politics and cursing is a hot item at Digg.

Ok again, how is this a VBSEO hurting your traffic problem?

[KW802]

Originally Posted by MARKETPROFITS

How is this obvious? From a post?

Isn't there something you should be coding?

Bye.

It's obvious from your actions. Face it, you're the internet version of a used car salesman and got caught. But at least on the bright side from now on the Digg community, the vB.org community, and the vBSEO community will know who you are.

Since you like digging all of your threads, go ahead and digg this one as well.

[Code Monkey]

Originally Posted by MARKETPROFITS

Can you tell me the reason "social sites" are there for?
It is beyond my grasp at the moment.

You attempted to use Digg externally as a means to promote a third party. Digg is for it's internal members to share their favorite bits of the web. It is not intended for this sharing to give traffic to these sources of it's members selections. That is just a side effect. It's a rating and filtering system to help those that choose to use it to find worthy items on the net.

You broke this system by using it for your own benefit. Just face the facts. You tried to manipulate their system for your own gain and got caught. Move on.

Try creating some content that will cause people to link to your pages naturally.

[KW802]

OK, now this is funny... this guy even dugg his own forums rules.

http://digg.com/movies/FORUM_RULES_P...BEFORE_POSTING

[Freezerator]

Originally Posted by KW802

OK, now this is funny... this guy even dugg his own forums rules.

http://digg.com/movies/FORUM_RULES_P...BEFORE_POSTING

rofl

And his reaction is hilarious to

[RedTyger]

Originally Posted by KW802

OK, now this is funny... this guy even dugg his own forums rules.

http://digg.com/movies/FORUM_RULES_P...BEFORE_POSTING

In the movies section?

I note when I clicked on the Digg submissions to read, all of the forum threads submitted to Digg were copy-and-pastes of articles from somewhere else.

[Brandon Sheley]

saying vbseo caused you to lose traffic from digg is completely wrong..
without You posting I guess 30 post in 3 days, or 10 post in 3 days w/e it was, is Why you where banned.. Not vbseo

Hopefully you'll learn from this and can move on

[SaN-DeeP]

Why is vbseo included in thread title ?