Great to see your feed count rising, I’m just getting back into blogging again as work has been crazy, re-subscribed to the feed now that I can focus on this niche again!

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Diggboss was digging at least 250 stories a day, that’s got to raise some flags for blind digging and so Digg used the TOS against him for the API calls as an excuse.

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Although I wish I could find good article on scripts that are under Digg’s radar. I’ve listened to a few podcasts and read a few articles and to be a ‘digg top user’ you really have to use scripts. Some take it overboard like Diggboss but they were never intentional.

Either way, good luck Diggboss on being restored to Digg and thanks Brian for covering the interview.

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I got this submitted to DIGG and was climbing real fast. 255 DIGGs in half a day before I was banned and 12 others who Dugg my article.

The one thing I noticed from the 50 plus comments was that everyone loved his API.

DIGGBOSS sorry if I fucked things up for you, truly. I didn’t expect this, I was just trying to show everyone how great your tools were. I even emailed DIGG asking if your options would ever be put into DIGG itself, as they are perfect tools for us.

You had like 100 visits to your page from my post in the last two days, then I checked your site and noticed you were banned. SO SORRY, I think I brought too much attention to your site.

Please forgive me,

~ Jim

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@maxyRO: not sure if this is the same level riot of days passed, but we’ll see how Digg prevails moving forward.

@Notque: it would be cool to make Digg give people a warning first. I believe that they have done this in the past. Perhaps you should bring this up for the next Digg town hall meeting?

@Russ: agreed that this will probably not blow up in Digg’s face. Sure, a lot of users were banned this time around…but this is a very small amount of users as compared to all the registered users in the system.

@Tibi Puiu: here here.

@Tal Siach: well thought out argument and agree that Digg should reconsider lifting Diggboss’ ban. He was a mutual friend of mine on Digg and always seemed to offer up good content.

@Anonymous: you make an important distinction between Diggboss’ script and other scripts that seem to clearly be purposed around gaming Digg. As there is a Digg API, each script should be evaluated individually. Digg probably does look at them case by case, though.

@Daven: I don’t totally agree with your train of thought. How else could he have been making such scripts without interacting with Digg’s API in some way? Also, making your own Digg-like site in 15 minutes is always an option, but you won’t have nearly the following that Digg has. Reddit is a cool community though, and they have been making good strides lately.

@adam: a good tribute. It’s great to see when power users help out newbies to the site.

@Jas: Digg users don’t need to know what CURL or WGET is, unless they are web developers that are looking to extend Digg through 3rd party apps. I don’t follow how this is sugarcoating, please explain.

@Kristen: it’s a shame that Digg doesn’t have a lot of the features that 3rd party developers have tried to create for the community. It’s also not the best when people try to write in to Digg and not hear much back, if anything.

@Corvida: I hope so too, keep the faith

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Digg is going down hill fast. Their leadership is driving them into the ground. Banning their top members for using their own API. WTF?

I think digg has forgotten that without their users their site is nothing. Heck, you can put up your own digg-like site in under 15 minutes. The only thing you are then lacking is a loyal userbase, but it appears all you need to do is wait for digg to ban all their loyal users and you could just snatch them up.

This user is moving to reddit permanently.