Do you remember Spike The Vote ?, a network which aimed at gaming Digg, Del.icio.us and Netscape by getting 1000 diggers together to cross digg each others posts and promote your stories. The site gained quick popularity by featuring on TechCrunch and CNet.
For some strange reason, the owner of the site decide to sell it on eBay. Jim Messenger of FamousAgents.com bought it for $1,275.00 and turned it over to Digg.
Digg quickly banned the accounts of all members of the community and redirected Spike The Vote to Digg.com. Smart move by Jim, but unfortunately Digg didn’t reimburse $1,275 which he paid for the site.
I knew right from the start that something like this would happen, so I never attempted to try it. Thesedays Digg is on a banning spree which is bad for them. Now the question is Why he sell the site, if it was so damn popular ?
via John Chow


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