Digital Point bans vote exchanging
The worlds largest webmaster forum has this month banned members from exchanging votes on sites such as Digg and StumbleUpon.
Most people are happy about the ban while some members either don’t understand it or want the ability to exchange votes reinstating.
Exchanging votes in public is a very bad idea and sites like Digg have been banning sites and users for around 2 years now. They used to have moderators scanning DP threads and banning urls almost in real time. Later on they switched to just checking referrer data and flagging stories for manual review if they found lots of visitors from the forums.
The main issue was that the stories were all of very low quality and had all the hallmarks of spam so it was easy for sites like Digg to start taking harsh action.
Go Digg & SumpleUpon! I guess some tech guys from NASA used to post there. LOADS of images from their official site showed up on Digg recently. ^^
Comment by Joël — March 17, 2008 @ 4:32 pm
I think they abuse it thats why they banned., and those webmasters really did their job.,
Comment by catalyst — March 17, 2008 @ 7:57 pm
Well I think that the action is good enough to eliminate or lessen the spam and manipulation tactics of some members
Comment by SEO Solutions — March 17, 2008 @ 8:52 pm