TechBuzz unbanned from Digg

Finally after 4 long months, TechBuzz has been unbanned from Digg. I had to closely follow up with Digg to get us unbanned. This time, Digg Team was much friendlier and responsive.

TechBuzz was previously banned from Digg because readers used to submit each and every article posted on the blog. Digg misunderstood us as middle man and decided to ban us. Before getting banned, TechBuzz had reached Digg frontpage once, bringing enormous amount of regular readers.

Please be selective while submitting article to Digg, else we might just be permanently banned again. Thank You!

This post was published by on March 10, 2007

About the Author: Thilak Rao works as a Social Media Expert. He is one of the first professional bloggers from India, and he loves to write, travel and click photos. Follow him on Twitter @thilak

  • http://andrewkuo.net Andrew Kuo

    Congratulations!

    I need to watch what I submit to digg. Been a little to digg-happy for my blog… oops

  • http://www.technospot.net/blogs Ashish Mohta

    yeah after so much of controversies they have even released Jhonchow blog…good for u

  • http://ajaydsouza.com/ Ajay

    You do know that posts from “unbanned” sites are easily buried, a single bury or two is sufficient.

  • http://apexad.net apex

    banned from digg? Is that a sign of good posts, popularity, or something else?

    Anyway, I am very glad you were able to get un-banned.

  • http://www.freakitude.com Lovedeep Wadhwa

    Congrats :D

  • http://www.anirudhsanjeev.org Anirudh

    I see a huge flaw in this. For example If I digg this article with the title “Cool new britney spears pics” or something that looks like spam, a lot of domains can get banned and won’t even know it.

  • http://www.AskDanAndJennifer.com/ Dan and Jennifer

    Free Thilak! Free Thilak! “Hell no, we won’t go!” :-)

    The whole “unbanned from Digg” thing feels like they’ve got you guys on some form of house arrest with GPS monitoring… I think John Chow tried making some posts but didn’t fare so well. Are you by chance feeling like “you’re being watched?”. :-)

    There’s been a lot of discussion of the “Digg bury brigades” as of late anyway…

    I personally think Digg would be a lot better off and lose a lot of the bad publicity if they would just do away with the Bury concept.

    Heck, it’s like going to the polls and un-voting someone. Yeah, I know they’ve had it a long time, but it’s just weird IMHO.

    I’m just trying to understand, what kind of person spends their day burying stories? If you like it, vote for it. Email your friends and tell them it’s great and vote for it. But to spend your time burying stuff? Just seems like a real glass-mostly-empty perspective. To each his own of course, that’s just a foreign concept to me and I personally don’t get it. Anyway, enough ranting. Blessings all around.

    Have an awesome day!
    Dan

  • http://anirudhsanjeev.org Anirudh

    something’s wrong with your commenting system

  • http://www.liveopedia.com Phalgun

    Now I think you should be ready for a Digg Effect soon.

  • http://tech-buzz.net Thilak

    Dan: That’s a great point, sometimes.. i get a odd feeling that Digg is just a bunch of jealous kids, who keep burying posts. That’s really weird.
    I know, I know.. they are spying on me, but I’m not that serious about Digg.

    Anirudh: That was exactly what happened to me. TechCrunch don’t have to worry about it, Digg has some special consideration for them :P

  • http://tech-buzz.net Thilak

    Anirudh: What’s wrong? Maybe I can fix it

  • http://affiliatestag.blogspot.com AffiliatesTag

    I don’t understand what is the problem if every article goes at digg. If all article deserve, why people don’t digg them?
    Although congrats you are unbanned. I hope to get my one blog unbanned soon.

  • http://professionallab.blogspot.com Professional Lab

    Woohoo! I get unbanned also. In 1days!!! Because who report me, they have no proper reason. This is ridiculous.